List: euphemistic
Words or phrases that are used to substitute for harsh or unpleasant terms, often to make them more socially acceptable or less offensive.
historical term euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- comfort woman, prostitute who worked in military brothels, esp. one forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII
jocular, humorous term euphemistic expression noun noun (generic)
- fly (on trousers), flies, zipper
rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) euphemistic
- secret place, hidden place
- female genitalia
- the underworld, the other world
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun colloquial euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- there, over there, that place, yonder, you-know-where
- genitals, private parts, nether regions
- that far, that much, that point
gairaigo waseigo English origin euphemistic noun noun (generic)
- prostitution (in the guise of a massage service)
noun noun (generic) physics euphemistic colloquial
- G, g
- gram
- (acceleration due to) gravity
- giga-
- gravitational constant
- gauss
- general audience (film certificate)
- cockroach
- destination (on a GPS)
- group
expression noun noun (generic) euphemistic
- very narrow passage
- perineum, taint