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From American English swearing that can be heard in Hollywood movies, we are heading to Canada, and learning Canadian English bad words. Then we’re off to the Land Down Under with cursing words you definitely want to remember.
Let’s consider terms that would make any editor brandishing a red pen quail, such as “cunt,” a taboo word which is currently the most offensive thing you can call a woman in the English language.
It’s important to remember that words have the power to impact people emotionally and psychologically. While playful banter and teasing are a part of human interaction, crossing the line into meanness can lead to resentment and harm to your connections with others.
flake. an unreliable person who says they'll do something, but then doesn't do it. floozy | floozie | floosie. a girl or woman with a reputation for sleeping with many people.
Even Snoop Dogg — a rapper renowned for being a "bad boy with a lotta hos" — claims to have stopped using the word 'bitch' to describe women.
Subtly sexist words about women and girls. Not the obvious, awful insulting words (which are depressingly many and varied), but the ones that fly under the radar, and contribute to a culture that undervalues women.
"Frigid" usually describes a woman who is uptight or sexually closed off. Traditionally (AKA in Sigmund Freud's vocabulary), it's been used to classify women as sexually dysfunctional, often for...
