Why is BLOODY a swear word?
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It came from Mary Tudor... aka Mary I Queen of England... She had a whole bunch of Protestants killed in an attempt to move England back to Catholicism thus earning the nickname Bloody Mary.  Since then the term Bloody has been very offensive in England.
323764
"Bollocks" is a swear word meaning testicles in British English. The word is often used figuratively, most commonly as a noun to mean "nonsense" or as an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, but also in a number of other ways; as an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless", and in various compound expressions (see below). Due to its versatility, bollocks has been called the Swiss Army Knife of andrological profanities.\n\nPerhaps the best-known international use of the term in this sense is in the title of a Sex Pistols album. Testimony in a resulting lawsuit over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense" (see Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols for details).
1139767
Its a swear word in hindi, the national language of india.\n\nIt means sisterf****r.
817663
Did you mean bloody?  Just download a cool, bloody font.  Check out dafont.com (see source).\n\nGood Luck!
303308
They are sort of a play on words, combined with a humorous attempt at replacing a swearword or blasphemy with something harmless.\n\nWhen you start to say "Oh my God!" you catch yourself at the 'g' and change it to "oh my Giddy aunt!"\n\nWith "God!" again you stop at the 'g' but change it to "Gordon Bennett!"\n\nAnd of course you might be about to say "F**king heck!" (or something similar,) when you sense your Grandmother breathing down your neck, so you catch yourself at the 'f' and say "Flipping Nora!"
971050
Cussing is using a swearword, a term of abuse; cursing is a invocation for harm or injury to come to someone.  To call upon a supernatural power to send injury upon someone.  To hope that someone will have great harm or misfortune come to them.
414674
Curse words date back to the early 17th century. It was said that Witches invented them. It was believed that when a witch put a spell (or a curse) on something, they would yell certain words. These words were thus believed to hold bad things and were not accepted. The history passed on for years and years, however, in the 1900's people started using the words as a means of pillory. The meaning of the words continued to evolve and are what we hear today.\n\n\n\nBy the way - that is a bunch of BS, but it is believeable!
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The acronym story is a complete fabrication from the middle of the 20th century.  It is completely false.\n\nThe word is the English cognate of the Proto-Germanic word *fukan 'have intercourse' which has its ultimate origin in Proto-Indo-European *pug- 'to strike' (compare English pugilist from Latin).  The English word f*ck derived according to regular sound laws from the Proto-Germanic form and there are cognate forms in most of the other Germanic languages.  It has moved in and out of vulgarity during its long reign in the Germanic languages.  In some time periods it was simply the normal term for breeding animals.  In Modern English it is moving out of being considered quite so vulgar since it is used so commonly.
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Well, the word used to be good and people didn't want to say a bad word, so they used a good word. That "good word" morphed into a cuss word. H*** is mentioned in the Bible, A** is another word for donkey, and so on and so forth.
555893
It's slang from the UK & Ireland, a made up phrase to avoid cursing when surprised or annoyed.\n\nIt's also a slang term for a sexual position.
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"Bloody" is a contraction of "by our lady", a reference to the virgin Mary.  As with several religious sayings, such as "Jesus Christ", it may be turned into an epithet eventually.  It probably happened during or just after the reign of Henry VIII, who revolted from the Roman Church and placed himself at the head of the Church of England, which has become the Episcopal Church.  Catholics, who had persecuted Protestants previously, were then persecuted by Protestants.  It seems likely that the corruption of "by our lady", a Catholic religious phrase of respect, occurred during this phase of Protestant persecution of Catholics after Henry VIII, and especially during the reign of Elizabeth the first, Henry's daughter by Ann Bolyne, who solidified Protestantism in England during her lengthy reign.  It seems likely that "bloody" came to be seen both as a parody of "by our lady", and as a sign of one's own Protestant loyalties.  Religion, Pal, it's a bloody mess, eh?
199570
The F word is Anglo Saxon.  Most others are corruptions of body parts.  My favourite is my old grandad's: 'Bad cess to you'.   It took me a long time to figure it out, but the cess is as in cesspit.
15983
Bloody hell is a very light weight swearword in England and would not be considerd vulgar. However in the south of England the word bleeding hell is considerd light weight.  But we in the north of England consider this to be most vulgar.
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Actually the swear words aren't the most offensive at all. \n\nWould you be more offended to be called n****r or c**t or a paedophile?  Or a child-murderer, or a racist, or a homophobe, or amoral.  There are many words worse than swear words that you can be called.
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It depends on your perspective.  If you are a person of good family and no real threats in your life then swearing is usually common in your vocabulary. If you are a person with more crap in your life than anybody you have ever known it is also common.  I think that kids start swearing because they want to seem so cool t their friends and they want to be the one on top.  But most  people start swearing just because of people they hang out with.
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F**k is an English word which, when used literally as a verb, means "to engage in sexual intercourse". It is generally considered to be an offensive profanity. Its origins may be Germanic, akin to the synonymous German "ficken", which had the original meaning, "to strike".\n\nIt is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first started to be considered vulgar. Some evidence indicates that in some English-speaking locales it was considered acceptable as late as the 17th century meaning "to strike" or "to penetrate". Other evidence indicates that it may have become vulgar as early as the 16th century in England, although neither set of evidence is inherently contradictory to the other, since many words have multiple connotations. The etymology (origin) of the word is uncertain.\n\nThere are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. One legend holds that the word f**k came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "F U C K I N'" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.
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Because bad language is not considered proper.  Would you swear when talking to your parents, teachers, or at work to you boss or customers?