Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (49 page)

Bradlaugh, Charles,
180
–82

breasts,
149
–50,
162
–63,
220
,
222

British English,
89
,
175
n,
195
–96,
202
,
210
,
221
,
224
–25,
238
n

Browning, Robert,
189
–91

Bruce, Lenny,
37
n,
44
,
254
–55

bugger
and buggery,
17
,
151
,
174
,
213
–15,
218
,
225
,
227
,
240

bullae
,
35
,
43

caco
,
17
,
22
–24,
31
–32,
150

Caesar, Julius,
43

capitalism, effect on oaths,
131
,
141
–42

Carlin, George,
15
,
244
–46

Carmelites,
152

catamitus
,
35
–37

Catholics and Catholic Church,
52
,
128
,
178
,
182
n,
199
,
234
,
257
–58

apotropaic obscenity and,
101
–3

beliefs,
61
,
108
–11,
117
–19,
121
–28,
138
–39

persecution of,
129
–30,
132
–38

Catullus,
31
–32,
42
,
47
,
147
,
166

censorship,
152
–53,
168
–70,
184
,
189
,
195
,
228
–29

chamber pots,
144
,
159
,
199
–201,
202

Chapman, George,
166

Charles I,
163
,
169

Charles II,
140
,
176

Chaucer, Geoffrey,
8
,
61
,
96
–97,
165
–66,
205

“The Miller’s Tale,”
107

“The Pardoner’s Tale,”
120

“The Parson’s Tale,”
112

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale,”
107
–8

children,
12
,
41
,
53
,
63
,
123
,
127
,
147
–48,
210
,
242
,
245
–46,
249

Christ, Jesus,
4
,
58
,
84
,
87
,
112
,
179
,
232

the body of,
9
,
117
,
120
–21,
123
–24,
126
–27,
138
–39

Sermon on the Mount,
77
–80,
179

Church, declining power of,
179
–82,
231

Cicero,
51
–52,
151

cinaedus
,
25
,
35
–39,
43

circumcision,
17
,
41
,
58
,
67
,
94

civility and civilizing process,
4
,
92
,
103
–6,
131
,
156
–65,
190
,
206
–7,
210
,
223
,
253

Claudius, Emperor,
34

Cleland, John (
Fanny Hill
),
196
–97,
239

clientship, institution of,
47
–48

clitoris,
27
–29,
98

closets,
160
,
163

clothing, social meaning of,
17
,
36
,
41
,
43
,
105
–6,
141
,
162
–64,
176
,
192
–93

cock
,
17
,
29
,
53
,
175
n,
193
–94,
242
,
248
,
252

cocksucker
,
37
n,
217
–18,
245
,
246

complaints against swearers,
124
–25,
127

compurgation,
114
–15

condescension,
162
–65

conduct books,
103
–5,
162

connotation,
6
–7,
9
,
90

Constitution, United States,
134
,
182
–83,
234
–35

continence.
See
self-control

copia
,
146
–48,
150

Cotgrave, Randall,
151
n,
191
,
213

counterculture, 1960s,
230
–31

courtesy,
96
,
104
–5,
162

covenants,
55
–59,
66
–67,
73
,
75
,
77

Covent Garden,
220
–21

crap
,
203
–5

creatures, oaths by,
118
–19,
121

culus
,
17
,
30
–31,
94

cunnilingus
,
20
,
25
,
37
–39,
52
,
220

cunnus
,
17
,
28
,
49
,
51
,
147
,
148
–49

as insult,
21
–22,
30
–31

as
vox propria
,
20
,
45

cunt
,
8
–10,
15
,
175
,
189
,
214
,
238
,
245

in dictionaries,
94
,
111
,
149
–51,
191
,
212
,
221
,
247

etymology,
19

first recorded use,
20

in literature,
27
–28,
30
,
107
,
147
,
167
,
173
–75,
189
,
241
,
244

in names,
20
,
93
–94

as
vox propria
,
90
,
94
,
96

Curll, Edmund,
169
,
234

cursing,
10
–11,
44
,
174
,
214

God’s self-,
56
–59,
66
–67

Roman,
44
–45

Dampierre, the Marquise de,
8

Davenant, William (
The Wits
),
169

death as taboo,
257

Decimus Valerius Asiaticus,
33

decorum,
92
,
238

age of,
205
–6

Roman linguistic,
46
–52

defamation and slander.
See
insults in court records

defecation,
23
–24,
32
,
81
,
103
–5,
117
,
159
–60,
205

dictionaries

American English,
9
,
223
,
231
,
246

foreign language-English,
89
,
150
–51,
151
n,
154
,
191

Latin-English,
94
–95,
111
,
146
–50

Oxford English Dictionary
,
6
,
27
,
49
n,
94
,
99
,
146
n,
184
,
189

slang,
175
n,
178
,
190
,
195
,
217
–22,
228

dildoes,
221

double entendres
,
166
–67,
191

Doubting Thomas,
124
–25

drama,
97
,
166
–70,
210
,
224

Dunbar, William,
152
,
155

dysphemism,
90
,
198
,
203

Edward VI,
131

effeminacy.
See
masculinity, priapic

El, chief Canaanite deity,
63
,
66
–67,
70
,
73
,
272
n

election notices,
46

elegies,
46
,
49
–50

Elias, Norbert,
92
,
106
,
156
,
160

Elizabeth I,
53
,
132
,
134
,
136
,
140
–44,
160
,
162
–63

elohim
,
64
–65,
70
,
272
n

Elyot, Thomas,
146
–50,
165

English language, history of,
19
–20,
52
–53,
88
,
91
–92,
282
n

envy,
42
–43,
102
–3

epic,
46
,
51
,
105
,
143
–44,
247

epigrams,
27
,
46
–49,
50
,
51
,
94
,
184
n
See also
Martial

epithalamia
(wedding songs),
42

epithets,
6
,
9
,
225
–26,
210
n,
232
,
234
,
237
–38,
254
,
256

equivocation,
129
–38,
142

Erasmus,
103
,
105
,
146
–47,
184
–85

Eucharist

Catholic,
117
,
121
–24,
126
–27,
138

Lollard,
117
–18

Protestant,
138
–39

Real Presence of God in,
78
,
123
,
139

Spiritual Presence of God in,
138
–40

euphemism,
21
,
220
,
229
,
248
,
257

Biblical,
83
–85

deplored,
192
–96

drivers of,
198
–99

eighteenth- and nineteenth- century,
176
–77,
191
–209,
254

medieval,
107
–8

as middle class,
193
,
206
–7

as opposite of swearing,
197
–98,
207

expletives,
7
,
10
–11,
61
,
178
,
210
,
215
,
217
,
245

The Famous Victories of Henry V
,
168

Farmer, John and William Henley,
195
,
211
,
217
,
220
,
225

fascini
,
17
,
35
,
43

Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
7
,
244
–46,
247

fellatio,
16
–17,
27
,
37
–39,
52
,
220

feudal system,
113
–14,
141
–42,
156

fighting words,
22
,
99
–101,
233
–39,
254
,
255
,
273
n

“the finger,”
36
,
249

fireplaces,
158
,
201

First World War.
See
World War I

Florio, John,
150
–51,
154
,
156
,
165

flyting,
152
,
155
–56,
247
–48

Forum of Augustus,
39
,
41

foul words,
90
,
108
–12,
143
–48

foutre
,
89
,
151
,
281

Fox, George,
78
–79

frig
,
151
,
174
–75,
238
n

French
as insult,
159
,
165

French language,
91
,
159
,
167
,
198
,
200
–202,
220

fuck
,
6
–7,
10
,
15
,
17
,
97
,
185
,
214
–15,
245
–46

as curse,
44

in dictionaries,
151
,
212
,
225
,
247

earliest uses,
151
–52,
215
–17

etymology,
153
–54

in legal cases,
235
,
237
–39

in literature,
25
,
166
,
173
–74,
228
–30,
240

as obscene,
154
–55,
175
,
207

fullers,
24

futuo
,
17
,
24
–26,
29
,
30
,
33
,
47
,
147
,
183

women’s inability to perform,
26
,
27

Garnet, Henry,
137

gender.
See
masculinity, priapic; sexual schema

genitals,
29
,
72
,
87
,
96
,
100
,
128