Faerunian curse words

[racestark]

I've been wondering this for a while. Are there any actual curse words common in Faerun? I know the four-letter words I'm rather fond of have a lot of historical reasoning behind them in many cases so they wouldn't be rather viable in a fantasy setting and they probably wouldn't be too welcomed since we're trying to keep content kind of PG-13.
But from time to time, I've found myself wanting to curse at something, not really anyone in particular but an event that made my character feel rather frustrated or annoyed where I go *curses under his breath*.
Anyone know of any actual words, though?

[DM Grizwald]

crappeth

[Quadhund/Greenhouse]

Hmm some common curse words I have read from the forgotten realms series are:

From the Sembia series: "dark"
From one of the Rogue's Books: "shadows of mask"

Some of the favorites of mine are: Bloody hells, bitch, bastard, offal, and there was one other, I'll post it when i remember.

[♥Zach♥]

"By a hairless gnolls uncle!"

I guess for some who want to keep it for a younger crowed. ;D

[Spooks]

Feck? ;D

[Boogiedk]

I use "Tyrs arse!" . . . . . . .


quite often

Be good
B.

[ShadowCatJen]

Some I use without being too blatant... granted most of these are British based:

Curse Words:
Bloody
Ruddy
Sod Off

Substitue Spellings of Curse Words:
Arse
s.h.i.t.e

Nouns to Describe:
Arse
Bas.tard
Git
Sod
Wench
Wh.ore

Phrases:
Cor Blimey
Sweet (name of god here, i.e. "Sweet Tymora!")
Sune's Arse (or any other god's rear end )
By the Nine (refering to the nine hells)
Good Gods!

- Easy way to come up with phrases is to use this formula:

By the (item) of (god)

or

By (god)'s (body part or item)

You would typicaly want to use and item related to the god. For example - "By the Hammer of Gond!"
"By Tyr's Right Hand!"
"By the Black Hand of Bane!"

Things to Keep in Mind:

- Logicaly speaking folks shouldn't use the words "Jesus!", "Geez!", or even "Sheesh". Geez and Sheesh are derived from the word Jesus. And since he isn't in the Forgotten Realm's world, it only makes sence not to use it.

- Since there is more then one god in the FR universe it's always best to just add that "s" to the end of certain phrases. "Oh Gods!", "Gods be Praised!", "Gods take you!", ect.

- There are nine hells in the FR universe so, again, just add that "s" to particular phrases or just refer to it as "the Nine". "What in the Nine....?", "Ta hells with ya!", ect.

Hope this helps...

[Quadhund/Greenhouse]

Bugger ... I knew there was another one.

[Aodhan the Unusual]

One of my favorites that I use on a rare occasion is: "What in the dark recesses of the Abyss...?"


'Cause remember... There are 9 Hells and the Abyss... Two TOTALLY different things, 'cause, well... There are countless number of 'layers' to the Abyss.

Same thing, as I found out, as there are differences between DEMONS and DEVILS (one comes from the Abyss, the other from the Hells).

[Quadhund/Greenhouse]

Pike off!

[DM the Usurper]

I don't know about Faerun, but here are some Old English sayings you bloody *censored*!

Thou frothy lily-livered whey-face.
Thou sottish fool-born minimus.
Thou infectious rough-hewn cutpurse.
Thou churlish tickle-brained flirt-gill.
Thou ruttish paper-faced flap-dragon.
Thou wanton rude-growing gudgeon.
Thou goatish half-faced mammet.
Thou greasy dog-hearted giglet.
Thou loggerheaded beef-witted pantaloon.
Thou mewling motley-minded clack-dish.
Thou fobbing idle-headed snipe.
Thou waggish fat-kidneyed remnant.
Thou vacant elf-skinned baggage.
Thou prating folly-fallen boar-pig.
Thou saucy half-witted lewdster.
Thou dissembling empty-hearted manikin.
Thou pernicious evil-eyed skainsmate.
Thou gorbellied shard-borne bum-bailey.
Thou grizzled mad-bread puttock.
Thou peevish pale-hearted coxcomb.
Thou lewd plume-plucked hedge-pig.
Thou unmuzzled ill-nurtured ruffian.
Thou paunchy guts-griping bladder.
Thou queasy fly-bitten gull-catcher.
Thou mammering dismal-dreaming pumpion.
Thou jarring beetle-headed vassal.
Thou rank dread-bolted jolthead.
Thou surly swag-bellied apple-john.
Thou roguish earth-vexing hugger-mugger.
Thou lumpish muddy-mettled nut-hook.
Thou spleeny pottle-deep lout.
Thou droning boil-brained wagtail.
Thou fawning ill-breeding pignut.
Thou vain shrill-gorged death-token.
Thou puking base-court foot-licker.
Thou bootless lean-witted strumpet.
Thou craven heavy-handed scullion.
Thou mangled rug-headed egg-shell.
Thou bawdy raw-boned measle.
Thou gleeking bunched-backed fustilarian.
Thou gnarling flap-mouthed moldwarp.
Thou froward crook-pated harlot.
Thou errant knotty-pated minnow.
Thou villainous full-gorged scut.
Thou yeasty weak-hinged harpy.
Thou fitful white-livered haggard.
Thou wayward common-kissing rampallion.
Thou hideous onion-eyed rabbit-sucker.
Thou cockered unchin-snouted whipster.
Thou haughty spur-galled hempseed.
Thou knavish toad-spotted maggot-pie.
Thou artless pinch-spotted pigeon-egg.
Thou beslubbering bat-fowling codpiece.
Thou spongy clay-brained ratsbane.
Thou qualling sour-faced mumble-news.
Thou wenching dizzy-eyed dewberry.
Thou weedy hedge-born malt-worm.
Thou clouted rump-fed horn-beast.
Thou dankish fen-sucked scantling.
Thou warped reeling-ripe malignancy.
Thou reeky pox-marked malkin.
Thou tottering horn-mad canker-blossom.
Thou brazen shag-eared rudesby.
Thou impertinent tardy-gaited dogfish.
Thou roynish iron-witted miscreant.
Thou paunchy shrill-gorged bugbear.
Thou cockered flap-mouthed death-token.
Thou lewd bat-fowling strumpet.
Thou ruttish empty-hearted rudesby.
Thou lumpish common-kissing hempseed.
Thou gleeking swag-bellied pantaloon.
Thou queasy heavy-handed nut-hook.
Thou impertinent milk-livered flax-wench.
Thou prating dismal-dreaming ruffian.
Thou clouted eye-offending dogfish.
Thou vacant elf-skinned clotpole.
Thou greasy tickle-brained apple-john.
Thou droning fool-born scantling.
Thou currish base-court egg-shell.
Thou spongy raw-boned wagtail.
Thou froward weak-hinged boar-pig.
Thou tottering clapper-clawed baggage.
Thou errant shag-eared scut.
Thou wenching rump-fed puttock.
Thou gnarling bunched-backed clack-dish.
Thou spleeny rug-headed ratsbane.
Thou knavish earth-vexing remnant.
Thou churlish pox-marked measle.
Thou qualling hell-hated hedge-pig.
Thou peevish fat-kidneyed mammet.
Thou reeky beef-witted rampallion.
Thou puny sheep-biting hugger-mugger.
Thou venomed guts-griping manikin.
Thou fawning dizzy-eyed waterfly.
Thou grizzled paper-faced younker.

[racestark]

Kiss your mother with that mouth?

Most of these I've known of, with the exception of Usurper's color commentary. I like most of the one's I haven't heard like 'pike off'.
What I was mostly wondering if there were more along the lines of four-lettered words--a single word that could be thrown into a sentence or overhead in a grumble, particularly any actual seen in a sourcebook or novel. For instance, Quad, can you use the word "dark" from the Sembia series in a sentence that may give us an idea of what it's context may be?

[Panros]

Usurper was checking out the Insult Gen Mk2/Soundboard. They do have very funny ones.

[heimdall]

With a full pantheon of dieties there is amazing potential to come up with a ton of creative curses...even if your as lazy as I am....I just ran a quick search online and I found a page with the following....

SWEARING
General exclamations
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“By the hells!”
“Hellfire!”
“By the fiery gates of Gehenna!”
“Gods above 'n' fiends below!”
“*troll*!” [Generally seen as a better variant of “***e”]
“Damn / Damnation!”
"Dark" or "Dark and empty" [roughly equivalent to "crap"; prevalent in Sembia]
“Dented shields and broken swords!” [curse, esp. used by warriors and military folk]

Personal abuse - men
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“W.horeson” [questions someone's parentage, but a general term of abuse]
“Knave”
“Orcwit” [fool, idiot]
“Orcsnack”
“Badblood”
“Troll dung” [abusive, esp. used by dwarves]

Personal abuse - women
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“She-goat”
“Harpy”
“Harlot”

Divine oaths
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“(by) Auril's kiss!”
“(by) Bane's Black Blood.”
“(by) Beshaba's (bad) breath!” [normally used to indicate bad luck, or to curse an unfortunate event]
“By the combined crotches of all Beshaba's chosen!”
“(by) Clangeddin's stones!”
“Cyric's Sword!” [Curse and double entendre. It is generally frowned upon and considered bad luck to mention the Dark Sun's name.]
“Gond's Gears!”
“(by) Hanali’s Golden Heart!” [polite exclamation, used esp. by elven nobles]
“Helm's Haemorrhoids!” [Irreverent, to deride a necessary but unappealling task.]
“Ilmater's patience!” [When someone is timewasting, also “You'd try the patience of Ilmater himself!”]
“By the (Crying) God's Tears!” [Polite exclamation; Ilmateri normally omit “Crying”]
“By the light of Lathander.” [Normally a blessing, but also an exclamation.]
“By the last sunrise!” [Oath used by priests of Lathander, the Morninglord.]
“Leira's Lamentation(s).” [Something that is not what it seems, particularly feigned grief. A double entendre when spoken because Lliira (Our Lady of Joy) is pronounced the same way as Leira (Lady of the Mists).]
“Loviatar's Caress.” [Something that hurts, also “Loviatar's Lash”, for those less given to subtlety.]
“(by) Moradin's hairy pair!”
“Mystra's Miracles!” [An exclamation of surprise, as when something happens by unexpected magic.]
“May the Wandering God's heel tread lightly on you.”
“(by the) clanging stones of the Wanderer!” [i.e. Shaundakul]
“By the Six rods of Shakazakh”
“Great Stinking Balls of Tempus!”
“Talos' teeth!”

Regional oaths (alphabetically)
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[Cormyr] “Keep your Peace Knot tied.” [i.e. calm down]
[Cormyr] “A hero must move.”
[Cormyr] “(you've) the reach of Gondegal!” [said to someone attempting something they cannot hope to achieve. Derived from the saying “Gondegal's reach was longer than his blade”, of the Lost King's brief rule over Arabel.]
[the Dales, Western Heartlands] “In the East, perhaps!” [untrue, absurd, as of a fanciful story or unlikely tale.]
[the Dales] “Mind the barn when it’s full, not empty. “ [i.e. don’t waste time on something that doesn’t need done.]
[the Dales] “Zhent deal”
[Mulmaster] “Fear and loyalty are the same word.”
[Thay] “Tamm's cold hands!”
[The North] “Klauth”, [“vicious”, as in “Don't go near him early of mornings; he's apt to be a right Klauth until he's had a mug or two.” or: “Blood and bodies everywhere...it looked as though old Klauth himself had come calling!” or the shorter variant: “Regular Klauth work!”, used to describe butchery. These all derive from the nasty brutality of the great red wyrm Klauth.]
[Zhentil Keep] “Rewarded like Zhentar.” [“Betrayed.”]
[Zhentil Keep] “For god, keep and master.” [Traditional salute of the Zhentarim. The keep refers to Zhentil Keep, ‘master’ to whoever is its leader, be it Fzoul or Manshoon, and 'god’ to Bane or Cyric.]

RACIAL SPEECH
Orcish
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“Ashdautas Vrasubatlat.” [“Someday I will kill you”, a standard Orcish greeting]
“Nar Udautas.” [“Not today”, the standard reply]

“Amal shufar, at rrug.” [“Where there's a whip, there's a way.”]
“Mirdautas vras.” [“It is a good day to kill”]
“Zanbaur.” [“Elfson”]

Dwarven
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“Axe high, friend, I go” [Dwarven farewell]
“May your axe be ever bright” [Dwarven farewell]
“I go” {Dwarven farewell – not impolite, often used by merchants]

“sargh” [orc, or orc-filth. Abusive term.]
“By my beard!” [The speaker is being VERY serious.]
“His beard is long.” or “...longer than his years.” [indicates wisdom]
“no-beard” or “shorthair” [meant as an insult to any race; particularly grave to another dwarf]
“You stand tall among us.” [complimentary; the actual height of the person in question is irrelevant - it's impossible for a dwarf to use this ironically.]
“His axe is sharp.” [said of a good strategic thinker.]
“Under the Mountain.” [Safe, well protected.]
“Open to the sky.” [Unsafe, unprotected. Also an insult, i.e. someone is a liability.]
“Gordul!” [“Gods look on!”]
“Calass.”
“dur Authalar” [“the people”, only really used by wild dwarves]
“Fair as the Holy Hammer!” [Effectively means “Unfair”, “Unjust”; when addressed directly to a person (“Soft with the Holy Hammer!”) it means “Calm down”, or “Ease off”. The Holy Hammer are a dwarven group dedicated to the survival and improvement of the dwarven race and the lot of the dwarves. The dubious means (including murder and intimidation) by which they go about this noble-sounding end results in an expression which means the reverse of what one might expect.]
“Sandstone!” [Serious exclamation; literally stone too soft and crumbling to be workable.]
"As wild as a night in Wildstar." [Bawdy: Wildstar is an underground town of gold dwarves]
"For the arduke."

Elven
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“Shardae” [“Winds blow.” A neutral elven greeting indicating that chance has brought you together.]
“Sweet water and light laughter until next” [elven farewell, becoming adopted by nobles across the Heartlands]
“Vedui” [greeting; see “Vendui” below]
“Vendui” [Drow *only* - greeting. Surface elves will *not* be impressed if you use this to them]
“Aluve” [Drow *only* - “I/we leave you”.]

“Est eionivan ei tie Myotha.” [“Until the stones forget.” A green elven curse, pronounced in all seriousness on those who have done some great harm to the People. Based on the idea that all things have an anima or spirit which the People can speak with and that the stones have the longest memories.]
“Nadorhuan(rim)” [“Cowardly dog(s)”]
“Mereth en draugrim” [“Feast of wolves”, i.e. a slain enemy]
“Andodulin” [“Gate bird”, i.e. a slain enemy]
“Auta miqula orqu” [“Go kiss an orc”]
“Lasta lalaithamin” [“Listen to my laughter”, dismissive]
“Antolle ulua sulrim” [“Much wind pours from your mouth”]
“Utinu en lokirim” [“Son of snakes”, i.e. a dishonest person]
“Lle naa haran e' nausalle” [“You are king in your imagination”, to a pompous person]
“Amin feuya ten' lle” [“You disgust me”]
“Lle holma ve' edan” [“You smell like a human”]
“Dolle naa lost” [“Your head is empty”]

Gnomish
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“Forges warm, friend” [Gnomish farewell]

“(to) set the gears in motion.” [Getting things started, often with the mechanistic gnomish mentality that all things work like machines.]
“(he) always casts a shadow.” [Mild or medium insult. Suggestive of the inability to hide *in* the shadows or use illusions to avoid detection.]

Halfling
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“Good morning, and good day after that! Don't let anything curl your hair!” [Halfling greeting, to which is sometimes added, “'Ware the Big Folk, and mind the goblins too!”]
“Gods smile (upon you)!” [Halfling greeting to the impatient other races.]
“Brandobaris watch over your shadows.” [Hin farewell]

GREETINGS and SAYINGS
Hello and goodbye
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“Well met” [Most often used greeting, especially between races or to those about whom you are unsure.]
“Well again” [Used between business associates or acquaintances]
“Again.” [Hostile greeting. Abbreviated from “Well again.”]
“Olore” [Equivalent to 'well met', used by travelers in the Inner Sea lands, especially around the Sea of Fallen Stars.]
“Until swords part” [Warriors' farewell throughout the Realms.]
“Until next, may your sword be ever wet, and your arse dry” [the Pirates of the Inner Sea]
“Alavairthae!”
“Amarast!” [“Fare well until next we meet!”, used by the sailors of the South.]
“Braeunk vhos trolkh!” [Hobgoblin: “If you die while I'm gone, do it quietly.” Also implies the unspoken addendum: “because I wouldn't want to miss the fun.”]
“Tantam.” [Greeting used by merchants of all sorts in the North.]
“Oakfather keep the earth firm beneath your feet and the sun warm on your face ‘till next we meet.” [Also: “Rillifane...”, “Eldath…”, etc., and abbreviated to “Firm earth, warm sun ‘till next.” Farewell common amongst followers of most nature deities]

Sayings
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“That hound won't hunt.” [Indicates a poorly thought-out idea or ill-judged plan. Mildly insulting.]
"Watch thy step, or your gold will soon be gilding Gondegal's throne!" [Warning expression. "Gondegal's throne" refers to anything likely to be a money-sink.]
“(you'd) sell slaves in Silverymoon.” [to do something that violates local law/custom in a particularly outrageous and obvious way and then say: “I didn't know any better.”]
“(caught) between the Dragon and the Desert.” [between a rock and a hard place - to face two equally unattractive possibilities.]
“No more Firewine for the Barbarian.” [said of someone going too far with a jest or a plan. “firewine” can be replaced by “jhuild”, and “the Barbarian” by whoever it applies to.]
“Fool's Gold”, or “To take Fool's Gold.” [An adventurer's watchword meaning to take on an adventure so dangerous that only the god Torm (The True, the Foolish) would attempt it.]

[catmage]

All of those are great except for maybe “By the fiery gates of Gehenna!”, because the plane of Gehenna does not exist in the FR cosmology. Possibly replace it with Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells?

[DM the Usurper]

nice research Heimy!