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Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • Stormbenders uses the term "pearl diving". When a man asks a woman if she would like to participate, it has nothing to do with oysters. Incidentally, the town that the main characters reside in is called "Oyster District"; this term gives the town name a whole new meaning. "Pearl diving" was also used as a euphemism for underwater masturbation in the book Haunted (2005).
  • Traitor's Face: Water Tribes have "slush" as a swear word (Gran-Gran scolds Sokka anytime he says it), and the Fire Nation has "ash". After spending enough time with the Gaang, Mai comes up with "slushing ash" for the most dire situations.

Bolt

  • The Bolt Chronicles:
    • The animals in these stories routinely substitute the word “dog” for “God” in phrases such as “Oh, my dog,” “Dog only knows,” and “For dog’s sake.”
    • Kelvin the labradoodle's stock exclamation of anger is “Horse biscuits!” Found in “The Protection Payment” and “The Seer.”
    • In “The Insomniac,” Mittens refers to self-pleasure as “crankin' your Wankel rotary engine.”

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

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The DCU

  • After finding out Damian and Raven are dating in F*ck Movie Night, Dick asks about their relationship in an interesting way...
    Dick: Did you uh, return Raven's Book?
    (Damian nods, embarrassed)
    Dick: Okay… did you guys uh… use a book cover?
    Damian: A what?
    Dick: Y’know, a book cover? To protect the book?”
    Damian: (Still embarrassed) Oh yes.

Death Note

Discworld

  • A.A. Pessimal has introduced a few gay characters into his Discworld. In a place where attitudes to morals and sexuality are as confused as say, Britain in the 1900's, the condition of being gay is met with reactions ranging from acceptance to hostility. But mainly a sort of embarrassed bewilderment. Lesbian characters find their status attracts interesting euphemisms. The accepted one is a convoluted Embankment on a river, or a holder-back-of-water. In the language spoken in Sto Kerrig and, after a fashion, Rimwards Howondaland they are polders. In Klatch, they are berms. Students at the Assassins' Guild school who are drawn into Situational Sexuality are described as doing an Alice Band or are Friends of Alice. And so on.
  • The New Guild, also by A.A. Pessimal, is all about this euphemism coming back to bite one of its users in the rear end: if Mrs. Rosie Palm is so driven to maintain her Guild of prostitutes label of "Guild of Seamstresses", then it's fair for the creator of the Guild of actual seamstresses to take the unused name of "Guild of Prostitutes, Working Women and Copulators". The whole story is Mrs. Battye, said creator, explaining to Vetinari how the heck does an actual seamstress fit in the description (it involves a rather strained use of Double Entendre) and Vetinari allowing it for kicks while Palm (who is in the same room) has a conniption.

Dragon Ball

  • Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
    • There is an apparent bleeped-out Cluster F-Bomb by Vegeta in episode 19. But in the stinger at the end, they play it uncensored, and turn it into a UE-licious Minor Insult Meltdown: note 
      Vegeta: Son of a gum-chewing funk monster! Why the fruit does all this funny stuff happen to me?! Forget my life! Always surrounded by miserable failing clods! Like this whole world just likes to bend me over and find me in the Alps! Like I'm some sort of slot receptacle! Well as far as I care, these miserable cows can have a fancy barbeque, with a Goddamn pig!
    • The "find me in the Alps" euphemism was a nod to the TV telecast of The Big Lebowski. It gets used again by Dr. Gero in episode 38.
    • Inverted when Krillin claims that Chi-Chi makes Gohan (her five-year-old son) "pound her tuna;" it sounds like a sex euphemism, but he literally means that Gohan beats up fish for her to cook. Chi-Chi is none too happy when she discovers this.
      Krillin: Look, Chi-Chi, if it really upsets you, we'll all take turns pounding your tuna, okay? But only if we get to eat it together.

Fire Emblem

  • The Ghost of Ochs has Seteth refer to a prison compound as the less-threatening-sounding "housing station for wayward souls".

Frozen

  • "Building a snowman" is commonly used as one in Elsanna shipping.

Harry Potter

  • In All The Stars In The Sky Bellatrix refers to Andromeda playing "stir the cauldron" with a Mudblood.
  • In The Betrothal Contract of 1926 Yaxley wonders whether anyone ever gave the "Hippogriff and the Hornet" talk to Voldemort.
  • In Breakfast Harry's son Jamie insists on dressing up as a cereal box for Halloween, with Ginny as a bottle of milk and Harry as the bowl and spoon.
    Ginny: You know, if we tire him out with trick-or-treating, he'll go to bed sooner. We could always leave that bowl of candy on the front porch and you could dip your spoon into my milk after we put him to bed.
    Harry: I'm kind of hungry. I think I'd want two bowls of cereal tonight.
    Ginny: I think I have enough milk for three bowls at least.
  • From the Crack Fic The Black Bunny:
    George: Draco, I wanna release my basilisk into your chamber of secrets.
  • Dangerverse: In fourth year, Draco Malfoy refers to kissing Luna as "transferring luck."
    • Leading to the priceless moment where Hermione and Danger team up on Draco:
    Draco: Luna had to go to a custody hearing when her mum died, and hers came out all right. So she was transferring some of her luck to me, for tomorrow.
    Hermione: "I never knew luck was another word for spit."
    Beat
    Danger: "Really, Hermione. I wanted to say that."
  • From The Dark Lord's Protector:
    While Bella was the most affected, the brothers always took advantage and made lingering touches, and innuendoes such as, "my meatballs are bigger then this and tastier" courtesy of Rabastan and "My breadstick is longer and thicker" courtesy of Rodolphus.

    What sent Bella over this time was when her lovers dipped both of their breadsticks in her pasta, saying "We wanted to taste your sauce."
  • In Dearest Hermione Sirius tries to give Harry The Talk, due to his doubts that the Dursleys would ever have discussed "the flowers and the fairies."
  • In At The End of All Things Ginny sees Hermione and Luna kissing and briefly has a negative reaction due to her mother's derogatory comments about "cauldron-licking girls."
  • In From Ruin Perenelle says she wouldn't blame Harry if he had a bit of "aggressive cuddling" with a girl.
    Perenelle: 'Moistening the Pope' is what the kids called it a few hundred years ago.
  • In The Greengrass Contract Angelina Johnson offers to teach Harry about "kissing and some other stuff."
    Harry: It's okay, Angelina - I know all about parking the hot rod in the garage.
  • In Harry Potter and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful! Harry, Hermione, Luna and Neville are physically aged to 18 via Applied Phlebotinum.
    Luna: Cool. My Crumple-Horned Snorkacks have blossomed nicely.
  • In Harry Potter with the Power the Dark Lord Knows Not Harry tells Sirius that he knows about sex, "sort of".
    Sirius: Sort of? Merlin, uh, well, alright, well...witches have, um, Quidditch hoops, and wizards have quaffles. Sex happens when the wizard throws their quaffle through the Quidditch hoops, but, uh, sex is also anytime that a witch interacts with the quaffle and anytime the wizard interacts with the Quidditch hoops.
  • From Harry Potter and the Something Something:
    Snape: Not too long after we graduated from Hogwarts, I realized what a fool I'd been in letting Lily leave me on such horrible terms. I managed to seek her out before she and James went into hiding, and I convinced her to forgive me.
    Harry: Lovely.
    Snape: Then she forgave me again the next morning.
    Harry: Dude.
    Snape: Twice.
  • In Harry Potter, Unexpected Animagus Hermione asks Fleur to turn her Veela allure up to eleven to test her theory that the effect will be lessened or negated on male animagi.
    Harry: Something smells really strange and I can't figure out what it is. It's not a bad smell, just a really strange one.
    Fred: I don't smell anything strange, but I just had a sudden and unexplained goblin uprising in my trousers.
  • For Mias World, In the Crack Fic Zach I Hate You, we have this:
Enemie: [About the pride flag for the ritual, and World’s sexual orientation] We’ve been living together for like a few days, but dude it’s SO FUCKING OBVIOUS. YOU AND LYER MADE OUT ALL THE FUCKING TIME AND I WALKED IN ON YOU DOING THE FIDDLE DIDDLE ONCE. YOU’RE FOOLING NOBODY.
  • Mockingbird:
    Harry: Oh Remus definitely both chases and catches for both teams, I think I have some old pictures of Remus with a school boyfriend in one of the albums Sirius left me. And why do I have the feeling that the one who's going to let Snape know will end up being me? What should I do? Drop the photo in front of his feet or simply walk up and tell him that Remus likes to eat a good cone as much as he likes to stick his spoon in a cup?
  • My Immortal has several odd euphemisms for penis, including "boys' thingie", "spock", and "glock" (though the latter two might be misspellings of "cock").
  • In A Necessary Gift Sirius comments that he hopes to get lucky at a Beltane ceremony. Remus objects because a ten-year-old alternate-universe Harry (who's pretending to be Sirius' nonexistent son Orion) is standing right there.
    Sirius: Orion's old enough to know about the quills and the inkpots, Remus.
  • In The Power of the Press Sirius uses a naked illusion of his girlfriend as a visual aid while giving Harry The Talk.
    Sirius smiled happily and turned to the image. Using his wand as a pointer, he proceeded to point out various areas like the cauldron, the happy button and the left and right potion stirrers.
  • The Real Us:
    Harry cleared his throat. He'd been silent for quite a while, considering that interrupting Hermione during a conversation about books was a sure-fire way of getting a punch in the mummy-daddy button. Ron could attest to that from personal experience.
  • Thirty Hs has a ball with this.
    Harry: Bugger your darkmeal, faggart of a thousand suns.
    Dumblecop of the Darkmeal: And what of it? Is it a sin, should a man feel like faggarting a sun or a thousand? Why should the suns heave through the void, if not to be skewer't bypon ourn fagpoles?
  • Unlikely Heroes:
    Fred: Bill since when were you a wand swallower?
    Bill: I am no wand swallower. I'm as straight as they come. I just haven't found the right girl yet.
  • When a Veela Cries:
    Sirius: You know Harry, since I am your godfather, it's my place to tell you that if you are going to mix potions with a witch, make sure you are wearing the proper robes.
    Harry: Are you really asking if I wore a glove while catching her Snitch last night?

    Mrs. Weasley: Now, add on top of that everything the two of you have endured together the last two days, the emotional turmoil, the loss both of you must be going through, and the inevitable closeness between the two of you due to what you've experienced together, and you have the exact same type of situation that sends a wizard's dragon looking for a witch's treasure cave.

Hetalia: Axis Powers

Homestuck

Invader Zim

Katawa Shoujo

  • In Tomorrow's Doom, Aiko's mother calls a girl's private parts her "happy valley".

Kim Possible

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

  • One of the villains in The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain speaks of his upcoming marriage as being the means to an end, saying that "I just have to take the blush off your English rose" in order to achieve it. As he's talking to the man who is genuinely in love with the bride, this is quite possibly the worst pressing of a Berserk Button in the entire series.

The Lord of the Rings

  • One fanfic reveals that elves call the head of the penis the "acorn", the vulva the "blossom", and the different parts of the vulva the "petals" and the "beechnut". They also refer to female arousal as being "wet with dew".

The Loud House

Miraculous Ladybug

  • In Crackships and Rarepairs, Kim pretty much exclusively uses food-related euphemisms when talking about sex, much to the bemusement of everyone (and annoyance of Adrien, since most of these comments are about his dad allegedly banging Hawk Moth). Luka also mentions he heard that Gabriel was "harpooning the salty longshoremoth".

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

  • Wings to Fly has a few odd euphemisms from the pilots involved. A "Pilot's Kiss" has absolutely nothing to do with kissing; it's a reference to an x-shaped chest bruise from the four-point harness standard to most mobile suits. Similarly, when someone tells you "foxtrot tango" what they actually mean is "I can not or will not obey your order", though it would be most literally translated as "fuck that".

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • The Ballad of Twilight Sparkle gave us the somewhat memorable statement that using magic with an antimagic collar apparently "hurts like an applebucker". Admittedly, given that "apple-bucking" in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic consists of kicking a tree hard enough to rattle all the apples out of it in one blow, it seems reasonable that being bucked would indeed hurt a lot.
  • Chronicles of Harmony's End refers to "kissing his tail feathers."
  • This is the Life: A Tale of a Human in Equestria has the main character (a human) use terms like "pony women" instead of "mares" and of course "everyone" instead of "everypony" while the ponies use the correct (At least for Equestria) terms. Word of God claims it's to cement the fact that the titular character knew absolutely nothing about ponies or their way of life before moving there. The ponies also sometimes get messed up when referring to the main character:
    Big Macintosh: Ah knew you of all pon-, uh, you’d put it to good use.
  • Dash Academy mentions the "wingboner" (when an excited pegasus has their wings spread open involuntarily), which is a common fandom term and not really a euphemism at all (indeed, it is really a dysphemism, as pegasi spread their wings for a lot of reasons). However, later on when Rainbow Dash falls asleep in the theater and has a dream about kissing Firefly, her spread wings make Firefly refer to Rainbow Dash as having had a "Night Flight", an obvious euphemism for wet dream.
  • Many in Fluffy Pony:
    • Sex = "Special huggies". or "enfies"
    • Pedophile = "Baby special hugger" or "Foal-fluffer".
    • Rape = "Bad huggies", "bad special huggies" or "bad enfies".
    • Intestines = "Belly spaghetti" or "Tummy spaghetti".
    • Serious injuries = "Big owwies", "Biggest owwies", or "Worstest owwies".
    • Labour = "Big poopies".
    • Blood = "Boo boo juice".
    • Death = "Forever sleepies".
    • Orgasm = "Good feels".
    • Sadness = "Heart hurties" or "heart owwies"
    • Insanity = "Head hurties" or "Head sickies".
    • Partner = "Special friend"
    • Genitals = "No-nos", "Special place", or, for the testicles in particular, "Special lumps" or "Special thingies".
    • Anus = "Poopie place".
    • Vomit = "Sicky wawas".
    • Whore = "Special huggies mare", or "enfie mare".
    • Seizures = "Wiggles".
    • Car = "vroom vroom thing"
  • In the My Little Pony branch of The Infinite Loops, they swear to trees, instead of the usual swearing to Celestia in My Little Pony, which is itself an example of Unusual Euphemism
    Celestia: I want you to stop swearing by me. ... It really is nothing personal, but when you can't tell if 'dear sweet Celestia' is an expression of affection it tends to get on your nerves after a while.
    Twilight Sparkle: ...you know, we're still going to need to swear occasionally.
    Celestia: Swear by trees. They're fairly reliable.
  • The Pieces Lie Where They Fell:
    • Diamond Dogs apparently use minerals and gemstones as swear words.
    • Xvital occasionally uses Mictlan, the Aztec underworld, as a curse.
  • In dC/dt ≠ 0, ponies having sex "pay homage to Slepnir" (ie, "make the eight-legged horse", "the beast with two backs")
  • Pound and Pumpkin Cake's Adventures (and Misadventures) in Potty Training: The Apple family calls pee "gold".
  • In Princess Celestia Is In Your Bed, Steve refers to Celestia's farts as "biological warfare".
  • Psychedelic Epiphany Series: In Yearly Epiphany: Multiple, in just the first chapter:
    • In combination with Sexual Euphemism:
      you know... married couples like to engage in the totality of their relationship for mutual comprehension and growth of pleasure?"
      "...Yes, I am aware of sex." Willow paused.
    • Coconuts, for teats, or so Willow Song thought, until she saw the "actual coconuts".
  • In Treasures, Daring Do comes to believe that tabula rasa is a particularly nasty swear word.
  • The Changeling of the Guard: In the chapter Out of Her Shell, Nymph gives us "Crickets".
    Topaz: "...And did she say 'crickets' as an expletive? That's adorable, you never did that."
  • A Diplomatic Visit: Chapter 2 of the sequel Diplomat at Large explains that changelings swear by "the Eternal Swarm", the leaderless changelings that existed before Chrysalis became the first of their kind to undergo a metamorphosis into a Queen.

Naruto

  • Marry My Father Please features a subplot in which Anko's birth control has failed spectacularly, yet she insists that she only has the flu:
    Tsunade: (Consulting Anko on her accidental pregnancy, which she's been insisting is just the flu.) "You don't have to stay sick with the flu."
    Anko: "I said not to say it. I'm …fine."
    Tsunade: "Hiashi doesn't rule you, nor does he make decisions for you."
    Anko: "I know that. But it's my flu, and I'm …fine."
    Tsunade: "Are you going to let him have any say in this flu? Help raise the flu bug or anything?"
    Anko: "That's the silliest thing I ever heard. Raise a flu bug? Don't you think you're carrying this a bit far?"
  • A Running Gag in Mating Season is that many characters use the word Doodles to refer to sex.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • A Crown of Stars: In one scene a character tells to another: "I’ve seen you checking out my ‘thrusters’, Top."
  • Advice and Trust: A bunch of them:
    • Asuka tells Shinji that he is not getting an "Israfel Special" with Rei and her (meaning a threesome). Quickly the "Israfel Special" expression becomes a Running Gag.
    • Later in chapter 5 Shinji considers that he and Asuka are pretty vocal when "entangling their AT-Fields".
    • During that scene, Asuka tells him "Now get your ‘Positron Rifle’ into ‘firing position’, quickly." as an euphemism for sex.
  • Doing It Right This Time: The "Israfel special" makes a return as both a Shout-Out and a legit One True Threesome.
  • The Child of Love: In chapter 5 Asuka makes breakfast, Misato tries it and tells it is one of the best breakfasts she has ever eaten and Asuka asks:
    Asuka:"Or...is it one of the first breakfasts you ever ate without Kaji's 'sauce'?"

Pokémon

Pretty Cure

  • In Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse, Nagisa uses hot chocolate as a metaphor for how fast she'll be. Honoka is initially confused, but supposes it makes sense to her.
  • In Twinkling in the Dark, Akaoni describes wrapping Joker in a blanket as being "snug as a ferret in a cardboard tube".

Osomatsu-san

  • Some fans like to have Jyuushimatsu use "Seicross" as a euphemism for sex thanks to his introduction in episode 1.

Resident Evil

RWBY

The Simpsons

The Smurfs

  • Empath: The Luckiest Smurf has "getting under one's hat" as a Smurf euphemism for sex, and "the Smurfette dream" as one for Nocturnal Emission. For Wartmongers, it's "stroking one's horns" and "getting all nice and squirmy". And in a mini-story, there's "dancing with myself" as one for masturbation, which Smurfette hears from time to time whenever the male Smurfs are alone in their Smurf houses.

Stargate

  • A Stargate Atlantis fic came up with "ice farmer" as an Alien Euphemism for "gay," leading to a particularly wonderful example of Metaphorgotten. ("If the ice wanted to be farmed...")

Teen Titans

  • A Very Titans Christmas uses the expression "The deed of a thousand euphemisms". Judging from the rest of the examples here, it is more than justified.

Torchwood

  • One Torchwood fic once referred to sperm as "cheap white carbohydrates." Made even worse when in context the author easily could have meant bed sheets, and out of context, white bread could be assumed. And ejaculate is more protein than carbs anyway.

The Twilight Saga

  • Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen features appearances by Edward's "throbbing lavender man-fruit thing," also known as his "mancarrot", his "throbbing male object", or his "massive throbbing gigglestick." Jacob's is referred to as his "male genital item" and described as resembling a "horrible wet mushroom."

X-Men: First Class

Unsorted

  • There is a fic with lines from "Jabberwocky" used as dirty talk during a BDSM sex scene.
  • WTF Fanfiction.com has a lot of this and has even compiled a list of words fanfiction authors have used to describe genitals.
  • One fic unfortunately used "digits" to refer to nipples, which brings up unfortunate mental images.

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