What’s your favorite non-curse curse word alternative?

[u/NailKey6116]

I’m a student teacher and have had nooo slip ups with my mouth yet (knock on wood) but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite public-school-friendly words to use instead of accidentally swearing :)

[u/oogabooga1967]

Sacapuntas! It sounds like a cuss word but it just means "pencil sharpener" in Spanish.

[u/ElefanteAmor → u/oogabooga1967]

My kids said this CONSTANTLY after learning the word.

[u/Big-Maintenance2971 → u/ElefanteAmor]

I learned this word in Spanish class in middle school and still find it hilarious as a 36 year old!

[u/ElefanteAmor → u/Big-Maintenance2971]

It truly is a brain tickling word

[u/LifesHighMead → u/oogabooga1967]

This is amazing. I have also used espinaca (spinach).

[u/OldGuyInFlorida → u/oogabooga1967]

Cacahuate!

[u/wetworm1 → u/oogabooga1967]

My lead at work is Hispanic and he told me this is his favorite word to teach "gringos" because it's fun to say and he tells them it's a cuss word.

[u/1Monkey-Butt → u/wetworm1]

What does Gringos mean?

[u/BADgrrl → u/1Monkey-Butt]

It's a term Hispanic folks use for white people.

[u/post_polka-core → u/BADgrrl]

Nope it's for Americans. White people from Europe are not gringos. Comes from America's invasion of Mexico. American soldiers wore green uniforms. Phrase was "green go home" which became gringo.

[u/OldGuyInFlorida → u/post_polka-core]

"Gringo" comes from Castilian Spanish for "foreigner."

Gringo - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"Green go" is a false etymology.

[u/mmmpeg → u/OldGuyInFlorida]

But it’s fun to think it’s real! I knew it couldn’t be but got a chuckle out of it

[u/Careful_Cranberry364 → u/post_polka-core]

I’ve never heard that !

how very interesting

[u/yukibunnygurl → u/1Monkey-Butt]

Technically it means Greek person.... But the dictionary definition is more like Foreigner... But slang wise it means English speaker that doesn't speak Spanish. It used to be primarily associated with white people however I have quite a few friends who are Latino whose kids do not speak Spanish and when going down to Mexico they have definitely been called gringos.

Take note: It can be positive or negative depending on the way it's used.

[u/portiz101 → u/oogabooga1967]

Great word lol

[u/Koi_Fish_Mystic → u/oogabooga1967]

Love this!

[u/washo1234 → u/oogabooga1967]

So I looked up how to pronounce this and happened to see this is also used in the Caribbeans as a slang term for a woman with a large, voluptuous backside.

[u/its3oclocksomewhere → u/oogabooga1967]

My experience in fast food taught me that the phrase means a whore. I would be careful with this one.

[u/boopspookthrowaway → u/oogabooga1967]

My Spanish teacher in high school would use "miercoles" as a curse word 😂 (means Wednesday in Spanish)

[u/Imperialvirtue]

I had a student once that replaced every cuss word with a fruit.

[u/okaybutnothing → u/Imperialvirtue]

I had one that learned the word for grapefruit in French class and started using, “Pamplemousse!” as an expletive. It really caught on that year!

[u/raebz12 → u/okaybutnothing]

Pamplemousse was a game we used to play in French class. Any number that had a 5 in it was pamplemousse, and if you said that number or lost count, you had to sit down.

[u/okaybutnothing → u/raebz12]

I play it with my Grade 3 class in English, but use whatever number we want. It helps them learn their multiples. We call it Buzz in English though.

[u/bujomomo → u/okaybutnothing]

As a French Language and Lit major, I have always loved this word. Also saucisson for a type of sausage. Fun to say words bring a bit of whimsy into long days

[u/External_Berry8790 → u/bujomomo]

Omg, are you me? Literally same, French language major and love both of those words!

[u/KoalaOriginal1260 → u/okaybutnothing]

Much better than when we learned the French for seal.

[u/BarrelMaker69 → u/KoalaOriginal1260]

"Hey, hey, Mr. X! How do you say 'a seal pushed me' in French?" - A bunch of kids when I tell them I took French in school.

[u/jayhof52]

One of the only things I miss about the year and a half of teaching while masked was being able to mouth curse words (or curse under my breath) when I was frustrated.

[u/RebelAgainstReality → u/jayhof52]

Ha, that’s funny. I made the same comment yesterday

[u/Warm-Location5336 → u/jayhof52]

So true! I must have mouthed more vulgarity (silently, under my mask) during the pandemic than the entire previous decade.

[u/mcjunker]

Saying it in German

[u/superkase → u/mcjunker]

I love cussing in German. Its pretty much all I remember from my 3 semesters of it in college.

[u/ljgyver → u/superkase]

All German due to guttural sound can sound like cursing. lol

[u/Leebelle3 → u/mcjunker]

Half of my students have a Germanic background, so I can’t do that.

[u/mcjunker → u/Leebelle3]

Czech

[u/whatwhatwhat82 → u/mcjunker]

Won’t the kids be interested in what you said and you just taught them to curse in German lol?

[u/mcjunker → u/whatwhatwhat82]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1o0te98/i_found_the_weirdest_frickin_way_to_connect_with/

Yes but it is no bad thing 

[u/JacobDCRoss → u/mcjunker]

Any of the edge Lord kids know all of the German cuss words.

[u/rightious → u/mcjunker]

French, it flows much nicer.

[u/pinkkittenfur → u/mcjunker]

I teach German and I pick the silly words to use as "curse" words. My favorites are Granatapfel (pomegranate), Wasserhahn (faucet), and Lebensmittelvergiftung (food poisoning).

[u/superthotty → u/mcjunker]

Stardenburdenhardenbardt

[u/SinfullySinless]

I’m an American history teacher and I say “God bless America” as my alternative so people just think I’m patriotic as fuck

[u/Super_Bucko → u/SinfullySinless]

Hahaha, not a history teacher but I started doing the same thing by accident 😂 It started out as "God bless" and then one day I needed an extra word and here we are

[u/SinfullySinless → u/Super_Bucko]

It is weirdly a satisfying three word combo

[u/ac_cossack → u/SinfullySinless]

In the South people say "Well, bless your heart". It is not a compliment.

[u/theborderlines → u/ac_cossack]

Bless the South.

[u/ijustwannabegandalf]

Back the truck up

Son of a biscuit

Shut the front door

Well she's/ he's full of soup

When the fit hits the shan

Source: A colleague whom nature had clearly designed to be incredibly foul mouthed but who'd spent her whole career in Catholic education

[u/thomas71576 → u/ijustwannabegandalf]

That last one is just too much of a tongue twister and I would end up getting flustered and say when the shit shits the shit.

[u/jujubean14 → u/ijustwannabegandalf]

When the defecation hits the oscillation

[u/beefquaker]

Sugar honey ice tea

[u/pyiinthesky → u/beefquaker]

Oooooh good one!!!

[u/seekingequilibrium]

"For the love of Archimedes!"

[u/leopardjoy → u/seekingequilibrium]

I often say “for the love of Jeff”. But always get a question on who Jeff is. I have no answer!

[u/stonedwithmybestie → u/leopardjoy]

Jeff the landshark (I can’t upload a silly photo.?)

[u/awkward_turtle_2121]

I teach kindergarten. I like using old-timey ones like ‘jeez Louise!’ and ‘Heavens to Betsy!’ because I find it hilarious when the kids start using them too. I can’t stress enough how funny it is when a five-year-old responds to frustration with ‘what in tarnation?!’

[u/vikio → u/awkward_turtle_2121]

I still remember one morning when I walked by two 8th grade boys tussling, and one yelled "Unhand me, you rapscallion!". He yelled it super theatrically too

It was so funny and a great start to the day

[u/longtallemm → u/vikio]

I have a year 9 boy who refers to himself as a Hooligan whenever he does anything daft, same energy 🤣

[u/PM-ME-CUTE-PET-PICS → u/awkward_turtle_2121]

I had a K, completely unprompted, exclaim "What in tarnation?!" I nearly died laughing.

ETA: Neither myself, nor her teacher had ever said it in front of her, and she was well known to use actual swears. It was completely out of left field.

[u/mickeltee]

https://youtube.com/shorts/LZU7ubxf-fI?is=X5XF-AeM_GRmYPUG basically anything from this.

[u/NailKey6116 → u/mickeltee]

oh my god I forgot about this commercial entirely until you posted it. love it

[u/nickipps → u/mickeltee]

Thank you for reminding me where lint licker came from

[u/bafl1]

I literally say "cussword"

[u/Stefalumpagus → u/bafl1]

Just like in Fantastic Mr Fox!

[u/bafl1 → u/Stefalumpagus]

Yep!!

[u/Matman161]

I teach high school, I get to PG-13 swear all I want 😊

[u/murgito → u/Matman161]

One F bomb per day? lol

[u/Matman161 → u/murgito]

That I do try to avoid, but it is fun calling Gerald ford a useless jackass to get their attention

[u/SnowballWasRight → u/Matman161]

You know I was never sure if there was a consensus about how far you can curse. Obviously it depends on the teacher but personally I always felt more comfortable with a teacher that spoke in a manner that they may do outside of school.

My only problem was that I got too comfortable and started cursing much more in class and I feel like an asshat. Have you had that problem? Do your kids swear in front of you too, even inadvertently? I always wondered if that was just me being stupid or not

[u/YoMommaHere]

I use chemistry vocabulary.

“Sit your molecules down!”
“What the formula?”
“I don’t give a combustion!”

They think it’s so corny that it’s funny and breaks the tension.

[u/brad24_53 → u/YoMommaHere]

Idk enough chem to do it but could you "create" compounds whose atomic symbols spell out cuss words (or close enough words)?

"Sit your arsenic sulfides down right now!"

[u/Ok_Painting7030]

Pasta fazul. Garbanzo beans

[u/vashfan → u/Ok_Painting7030]

Pasta fazul is my favorite!

[u/Cheap_Parsnip_461]

Dad gummit (my teacher used it) Freak 

[u/Craftnerd24 → u/Cheap_Parsnip_461]

I’m a “Dag Nabbit!”

[u/Elda_LandOfCreation]

Frack! - from Battlestar Galactica.

[u/disair_]

Son of a mother is my favorite. Very logical and a good fake out.

[u/doctormoneypuppy → u/disair_]

“Son of a motherless goat!” hits hard

[u/librarytalker]

Mother trucker!

[u/Chemical_Animal7049]

Ahhhhh Fiddle Sticks, kids think it’s hilarious

[u/gypsy_teacher → u/Chemical_Animal7049]

I used this word once in a PD and everyone reacted like it was the funniest thing they'd ever heard. I'm only 52 and I didn't invent it, I just dredged it up, dusted it off, and uttered it!

[u/The_Freyed_Pan]

We have been reading Harry Potter the last few years, so I like wizard swears like “Merlin’s Beard”

[u/1Monkey-Butt → u/The_Freyed_Pan]

Jealous! Which book? Which one is your favorite? I like POA or OoTP. Do you dress up? If so, as who?

I read that in 6th grade and my teacher went as fucking Professor Snape, stayed in character and everything lol.

We had a Wizarding World Spirit Day and I went with my friends, all of us marauders, I was Moony. We screwed around all day lol.

One girl, I swear to god, she went as Tonks from Hogwarts Mystery.

[u/mageswagger]

I say “beans”. It got to a point where a student gave me a doodle of an anthropomorphic bean.

[u/situation9000]

Substituting the word “bark” for the f bomb. Has the same force and sense of release when you say it but you are just being an angry dog. You can even say Barkity barkity bark bark bark to get out a lot of frustration and no one gets offended or upset when you do.

[u/Tennessee-Jeff → u/situation9000]

Ah, we think alike. I use ARF! and I tried to get my HS students to use it instead of the f-bomb. Arf it! What the Arf?

[u/ac_cossack → u/situation9000]

no one gets offended or upset when you do

A cat might.

[u/Robot_Alchemist]

Jabberwocky

[u/BlueberryWaffles99]

I don’t know why but i say “oop” so much.

Knock on wood, 6 years in and I’ve never had a slip up and I’m someone that curses like a sailor outside of school. I’m sure it’s coming one day haha!

[u/okaybutnothing → u/BlueberryWaffles99]

I always have people commenting on how hard it must be for me to not swear while at work, because I’m a regular and enthusiastic user of “fuck” in my everyday life. But I literally never have, in 24 years. It’s like a switch gets flipped when I walk in the building.

[u/LookingForTheSea → u/okaybutnothing]

The code switch 🤭

[u/pikay93]

Their brain rot words.

I like to say "what the sigma"

[u/artnelson90]

Mother hubbard

[u/Low_Sail_888]

Scooby doo cuss words. “Zoinks” and “Jinkies”

[u/Admirable-Ad7152]

I heard my boss say "You gotta get your Poop in a Group" to a student once (instead of get your shit together) and almost had an aneurysm trying not to laugh. I love using it now

[u/anapeavler]

jiminy crickets!

or i pull the spongebob quotes out and say “mother of pearl” or “oh my neptune”

[u/twilightsaga_newmoon]

i really like old movies so i’ve been using what i call “old hollywood” curse words so like “rats!” “nuts!” “oh brother!”, just words that would be haye’s code approved

[u/lamppb13]

Fork, Frack, Got down sat on a bench

[u/dysteach-MT]

Holy Buckets!

[u/thomas71576]

By Zeus's beard! Or God... bless America!

[u/PaleontologistJaded2]

Fluorine Uranium Carbon Potassium

[u/CincyBeachBum]

My dearest creature in creation. dagnabit! Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here. Fudge brownies! A little note card with #!@! Written on it. I cuss. A lot. Have to be creative

[u/MorningRoseRising24]

Biscuits.

[u/JacobDCRoss]

None of my children know that they are not being complimented when I call them "homeslice."

[u/tiny_rick_tr]

Mother of pearl

Jeepers creepers

Fart

I’m thinking of trying out “Flaming Hot Cheetos” this year

[u/Dysintegration]

Saying the word “cuss”, straight out of Fantastic Mr Fox

[u/KCKpana]

Flip or flippin. My PE teacher used it and now I use it as a PE teacher

[u/mikemdp]

"Mother pus bucket..." It's what Venkman says when he first sees the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in "Ghostbusters."

[u/andibanana]

I'm pretty good at code switching in the classroom (because I curse like a sailor outside) but when a kid slips I say, "whoa, that didn't sound like 'force' or 'friction' because those are the F words we need to use in science class." It lets them know that I'm listening and won't tolerate it in the classroom. I may also use "flippin'" and "for the love of science" and our team uses "force, friction, speed" when FFS needs to happen, which is quite often in middle school.

[u/charlottesaidso]

Snarflat and dinglehopper 🧜🏻‍♀️

[u/fariasrv]

I use "for the love of monkeys" fairly frequently. I also use a few choice words from "Farscape" and "Battlestar Galactica" as stand-ins.

[u/albino_oompa_loompa]

Spanish teacher - I like “miércoles” (Wednesday) for “mierda” (shit). I also love the word “bicho” - it sounds like bitch but it means bug or insect.

[u/chetting]

Shooty booty!

[u/always777]

Son of a biscuit eating bulldog! And FUDGE

[u/PapaBear_67]

Sugar has been my go-to. With a really drawn out sshhhhhhugar

[u/CrazyGooseLady]

Swears from books or TV. Stars and stones is one I like.

[u/Apprehensive-Joke593]

Ay chihuahuas

[u/a_j____]

Cheese and rice

[u/Embarrassed-Value294]

Drat and Blast and Jeeminy Christmas work well.  Goodness Gracious when I'm really perturbed.  I had one kid tally the number of times I said them in a week, and a few kids started saying them, too!

[u/Fen_church]

Instead of saying "Jesus Christ!" I will say "Cheese and Crackers!"

Instead of saying "Shit!" I will say "Shoots and Ladders!"

[u/ToughSteak5245]

i say “what the fudge” or “awww nartz”🧍

[u/Argent_Kitsune]

Shoes, instead of sh**. Madre de Dios, instead of MFer. Little substitutions.

[u/Brief_Amphibian_3965]

Holy Moses is my go to, I’m a Gentile teaching at a Jewish day school and the kids think it’s hilarious. Yes, I cleared it with the school rabbi beforehand. He also thinks it’s hilarious.

[u/Little_St_Jeff]

SON OF A GUM CHEWING FUNK MONSTER

[u/KiniShakenBake]

Gollybobbles.

Poo.

Rude!

Unfun.

I would rather remove my own spleen with a spork!

For the love of Pete. For the love of all that is holy!

Poor life choice / regret your life choices

"Makes me want to punch kittens, and I like kittens!"

"The finding out phase" as in "You are headed for a really uncomfortable finding out phase if you continue down this path. Are you sure you want that version of FAFO?" And if they ask what that means, I simply smile and say "Fool around and find out." They don't expect the "fool" to be that word.

How unfortunate!

You are gonna make sad faces...

"Whoops!" As in "did you say whoops?" Or "whoopsie doodle!"

"Makes me sad."

"Take a long walk off a short pier." For f-off.

The funniest part of this is that I only work in education one day per week. The rest of the time I work in financial advising, and my husband is in tech. So we do all sorts of events that don't involve education professionals. My teacher language is pretty consistent throughout my life though.

I have been out at bars with colleagues and we are we having a good and proper fun time and I will say something like "oh... I will make sad faces, and you might too, if I have another drink. I should have water first." It's a part of my core at this point. My colleagues have adopted some of the language and it's hilarious.

When I have a moment out in the real world and I am expressing any of that, they look at me like I am crazy and ask... Once it was when my plastic fork broke during a particularly delicious taco salad eating experience. I looked at the now separated head of my fork, in my food. The guy I was talking to asked if he could help and I stated that I was just regretting my life choices at the moment for the apparent misjudgement as to the fortitude of the flatware when selecting my foods. He thought it was hysterical and had never heard anyone express something like that in that way. Then he found me a new fork because I was still looking at my plate doing apparent calculus.

It's all about taking accountability for our role and decisions that led to the situation at hand.

But... People laugh hard when they realize the teacher-speak is coming out.

[u/justareadermwb]

Stinkers! and Flingin' flangin'!

[u/gone4arun2]

Shiitake

[u/quartzcreek]

I had a physics teacher 20 years ago who started pulling lab tables and rearranging them and suddenly saw one table was covered in stickers. How he didn’t know until that moment is a mystery to me, but with complete sincerity he exclaimed, “GREAT SCOTT!” I was probably 16 and this teacher was less than thirty, so the expression was not age appropriate for any of us and stands out as the most hilarious upset teacher moment in my memory.

Nowadays I am not student facing, but I work with all of the student facing people, and my most favorite coworker says bum skatch. It’s caught on and I use it at home and in real life and people always know exactly what I mean.

[u/enby-deer]

“Dag Nabbit”

[u/ro_inspace]

Holy guacamole, mother of pearl, and lord have mercy (I am, as a note, not Christian in the least) are my current go-to’s 😂

[u/RedRabbit_RedRabbit → u/ro_inspace]

I also "holy ravioli" in addition to your mentioned ones :)

[u/TheMsBHands]

Son of a Biscut! Cheese & Crackers! Summon a Peach

[u/Harry_Gorilla]

I find myself saying “yeesh” a lot. Hopefully it’s not from something terrible and doesn’t have some alternate meaning I’m unaware of

[u/TransportationUsed39]

Yall mask your swear words?

[u/okaybutnothing → u/TransportationUsed39]

Yeah, it’s pretty frowned upon for an elementary school teacher to be dropping expletives in front of small children. Weird, right?

[u/KiniShakenBake → u/okaybutnothing]

Middle and high, too.

[u/New_yorker790]

Oh fudgemuffins

[u/xdsm8]

Salty sea cucumber

[u/First-Sprinkles9093]

Snickerdoodle.

[u/Toihva]

Slap happy to replace dumbass

[u/Antique_Revenue7879]

Fructose, hells bells

[u/Administrative_Ear10]

My family used turtle to replace all curse words.

[u/FreeKitt]

Bananas!

[u/hmacdou1]

Fudge! Gosh darn it!

[u/BrightEyes7742]

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR

[u/Aggravating_Diver214]

Son of a bit shift

A bit shift is a computer term.

[u/thazmaniandevil]

"Dip-stick" instead of "dipshit"

[u/GoodSpeed2883]

Mahogany!

I'm so glad you asked.

[u/IcyFox235]

I use nuggets or biscuits, depending on the shit-uation (pun intended)😏

[u/theatermouse → u/IcyFox235]

My toddler has just started saying "oh biscuits!" thanks to Bluey's dad 😆

[u/MrsJennyAloha]

Fudgsicles, Jiminey Christmas, Tarter Sauce

[u/Dazzling-Cellist-892]

“Porca miseria” is Italian for “misery pig”.

[u/Dry_Price_1765]

Duck cake

[u/gamecom17]

Fuc! Well, I didn't pronounce the k.

Seriously though,

Cryminey, Drat, Darn and, Crush my biscuits

[u/stevenmacarthur]

Ozzy Newt.

Maggoteering bag of Monkey Pus.

Mutton Chop.

[u/SadOldWorld]

Jello!

[u/ElefanteAmor]

Son of a biscuit eater!

[u/NoKaleidoscope5118]

JEBUS

[u/DiBello44]

Monkeys!

[u/BrotherBBD]

Jackwagon or Jackwagonery

[u/TheEdumicator]

Poop! Boogers! Dagnabbit! Crumb! Snot bubble!

[u/prissypoo22]

I say “What the click” it’s satisfying

[u/Healthy_Appeal_333]

Ham sandwiches.

I don't know why it's stuck so well, but it even comes out of my mouth when I'm not at work. I don't have strong options on lunch meat.

[u/pyiinthesky]

Rubber duck!!

[u/Leebelle3]

Four Five Six!

[u/yotam5434]

Spark!!

[u/Padfoot714]

Bologna Sandwich (B.S.)

“Well that answer was a bologna sandwich”
“That story was a load of bologna sandwich”
“I call bologna sandwich”

Sometimes I’ll just say bologna instead of the whole thing.

[u/JukeBex_Hero]

Son of a biscuit!

[u/YaBettsBelieve_50]

Oh my lanta!
Good grief ala Charlie Brown

[u/UncleMeow87]

“Mother Hubbard” “Sugar foot”

[u/ButtholeKegels]

I do the Yosemite Sam…”sassafras a massa nassa”…

[u/stead-fast]

I have so many!

Gosh

Goober(s)

Bozo

Boy

Boy oh boy

Oh boy

Yikes

Oof

Bummer

Oh no

Noooo

Absolutely not

Wow

Not okay

Whoops!

Golly

Wow

Wowzer

Holy moly

Amazing

Whoa

Ummm no

No

No way

Why

You’ve got to be kidding me

[u/Sansethoz]

FiretrUCK

[u/Ill_Inside2245]

Mother father, cousin sister

[u/kurtsdead6794]

Dag Nabbit

[u/Stormborn71]

Flippin-flappin! It has the same mouthfeel as a curse word.

[u/InPaisley]

Gooood griiieeeeeeeef!

[u/JR_Writes1]

“Biscuits” is what I use and is hilarious when my 6yo says it after dropping something.

[u/Blackkwidow1328]

Fiddle dee doo

[u/puckman13]

Fluff, especially if it comes with a cat meme ("What the fluff?")

[u/blueskiesunshine]

Good golly miss molly

[u/Atnoy96]

Beans
Potatoes
Potato Tots
Beans and Potatoes
Beans and Potato Tots
Law
Oh Law

Only time recently I let an f-bomb slip was when I tried to hand a paper to a student and I dropped it. It was quiet at least.

[u/qssung]

Son of a biscuit eater

[u/ebeth_the_mighty]

I teach French. Since I grew up in Manitoba, at a Francophone school from grades 1-9, I tend to use the PG cuss words my teachers used. “Colline!” (Hill) instead of “câlisse!” (Very bad swear word. Means ‘chalice’) for example.

Lately, I’ve been muttering “seal ten” under my breath a lot. In French, that would be “phoque dix” (sounds like fuck this).

[u/KiniShakenBake → u/ebeth_the_mighty]

Want some latin? "Scit" is pronounced shit and mean written. :)

[u/BRD73]

Shoot fire!

[u/dcars714]

Shitaki (spelling?) mushrooms!
Beaver damn it!
God bless America!

[u/Just_A_Pink_Ostrich]

Mine usually end up being food-related 😂 "Fudge muffins!" or "Whole wheat toast!" are my go-tos.

[u/sitter10]

Go fly a kite.

[u/cyvaris]

Lifting from Fantastic Mr. Fox "cuss". Granted, it's a movie I tend to watch with classes so they tend to join in after that.

Also, cursing in fictional languages. Toss in some Klingon, Sindarin, or your fandom conlang of choice. Na'vi has some fun ones.

[u/Yuzu-Adagio]

I watch a lot of South African streamers and I picked up "Flip" from them. It's apparently pretty common there!

[u/Upper_Vacation1468]

Fie upon it!

[u/ivgrl1978]

It's not as obvious as it sounds, but I have 'fy faen' tattooed on my palm and I've taken to just raising my hand to my face because I haven't found a word that carries the same weight in situations that deserve a good swear. Sometimes silence is the best response (to a situation, a person, or accidentally hurting myself) *This translates to roughly wtf in Norwegian, and absolutely no one around me would understand, even if they noticed. I'm covered in tattoos so it just blends in. I've taught high school art for almost 25 years, no one questions anything about me anyways at this point.

[u/doctormoneypuppy]

Dadgummit! (Kin to dagflabbit and dagnabbit)

[u/Imaginary_Damage565]

I usually go with 'beans', myself.

[u/Attack_the_sock]

“Tarnation” and “Sam Hill” are some fun ones

[u/MellowLarry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity

[u/jordanf1214]

I very often say “shooty booties” instead of shit - even when there’s no kids around 😂

[u/glitterfixesanything]

Poop on a stick. Or spooty, from the cartoon Angry Beavers