- b'zugda hiara From Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. A scathing insult in dwarfish, which translates to "lawn ornament"
- Dingly Dangly Doodle - from Rolie Polie Olie, a generic expletive used by Percey Olie and repeated by his daughter Zowie Olie. It is a "very bad word" that Olie's are never supposed to say. In polite conversation, it is referred to as the triple D word .
- fug - from The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; bowdlerizing "fuck". See also The Fugs. A famous story (explicitly denied by Mailer) has Tallulah Bankhead meeting Mailer and saying, "Oh, you're the young man who doesn't know how to spell 'fuck.'")
- godspit - from China Miéville's Bas-Lag universe, possibly a euphemism for the above
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