euphemism

• Locally, a usual expletive is, “daazz it,” or, “I'll be daazzed,” and it was not long before a member making use of this euphemism was accused of swearing. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• "Home" for "house" can't really be classed as a euphemism, as there is nothing necessarily unpleasant or offensive about a house; but the use of "home" for a newly erected building is a step in the same general direction as euphemism. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
• Queasiness in a similar vein, speaking at least of propriety and metaphor, finds its way even into Biblical scholarship, where euphemism is often at its most artful. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
• The almost universal ignorance of medical nomenclature among English laymen and their dependence on euphemism is even the basis of corny old jokes, like the one about the two old biddies who spotted a haulage contractor's truck bearing the slogan —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
• I can conclude only that that communicative intention is used to mean both denotation and connotation: but if that is so, then it would seem that the contrast implicit in euphemism is lost. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1

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