List of fictional curse words
Fictional curse words are profanities invented by authors of fiction, often science fiction.
- Belgium - from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; same meaning as 'fuck'
- bowb - from Harry Harrison's Bill the Galactic Hero series
- buck - from That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
- drannit - from Farscape
- dren - from Farscape; same meaning as 'shit'
- feck - from Father Ted; same meaning as 'fuck'. Possibly derived from Irish slang, but most likely introduced to allow repeated swearing in a television programme.
- felgercarb - from Battlestar Galactica (or feldercarb, feldergarb or felgergarb)
- fahrbot - from Farscape; same meaning as 'fucking nuts'
- frak - from Battlestar Galactica (2003 miniseries seems to establish same meaning as 'fuck')
- fraz - from David Feintuch's Seafort Saga
- frell - from Farscape; same meaning as 'fuck'
- frelnik - from Farscape
- goit - from Red Dwarf; same meaning as 'git'
- gorram - from Firefly; same meaning as 'goddamn'
- grapple - from Firefly; same meaning as the 'fuck', as in sexual intercourse
- greebol - from Farscape; same meaning as 'idiot'
- Hezmana - from Farscape; same meaning as 'Hell'
- humped - from Firefly; same meaning as 'screwed'
- krunk - from Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- loomas - from Farscape; same meaning as 'tits'
- mivonks - from Farscape; same meaning as 'bollocks'
- naff - from Porridge - said to be invented by Ronnie Barker, but also claimed to be an older term from Polari, a form of gay slang
- rutt - from Firefly; same meaning as 'fuck'
- shazbot - from Mork and Mindy
- smeg - from Red Dwarf: most likely abbreviated from 'smegma'
- taff - from Thief, but possibly from earlier English ethnic slur "Taffy" or "Taff" for a Welshman (claimed to be thieves).
- tanj - from Larry Niven's Known Space books ("there ain't no justice")
- thoddo - from Farscape; same meaning as 'idiot'
- tralk - from Farscape; same meaning as 'slut'
- yotz - from Farscape; same meaning as 'fucking Hell'
- zark - from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; same meaning as 'fuck'