Thank you to my friend Don Grohman, who sent me this list. It is apparently from a book called The Tim Hawkins Handbook by the author of the same name.
If you are miffed, try these:
Shucks!
Rats!
Gosh!
Shizzle!
Toot!
Turd!
Sheesh!
Flippin!
Phooey!
Ticked!
Heck!
Shoot!
Jeepers!
Jeez! or Geez!
Crud!
Dag!
Dang!
Darn!
Darnit!
Bodger!
Snot!
Wing Nut!
Merts!
Crimeny!
Cripes!
Crepes! (yum)
Doo-Doo!
Caca!
If you are exasperated, try these:
Good Gravy!
Good Grief!
Gadzooks!
Bull Snot!
Fiddle Faddle!
Fiddlesticks!
Cotton Pickin’!
Malarkey!
What the Hey!
Bucket Head!
Shucky Darn!
Dad Burnit!
Dag Nabbit!
Con Sarnit!
Confound it!
Doggonnit!
Dad Blame It!
Dad Gummit!
Dad Blast It!
If you’re just not having it, try these:
Great Googley Moogley!
Great Caesar’s Ghost!
Geeze Louise!
Mother Francis!
Judas Priest!
Shut Your Piehole!
Kiss My Grits!
Heavens to Betsy!
Bolshevik!
What the What?
What the Devil?
Rasa-Frasa-Rasa-Frasa!
Booger Snot!
Fartknocker!
Moother-of-Pearl!
Bull Twinkies!
Gee Willikers!
H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks!
Fahrvergnügen!
Shut the Front Door!
Suck Eggs!
And some more for you:
Son of a Biscuit!
Son of a Biscuit Eater!
Son of a Bacon Bit!
Son of a Nutcracker!
Son of a Motherless Goat!
Horse Hockey!
Horse Puckey!
Horse Feathers!
Horse Pitooty!
For Heaven’s Sake!
For the Love of Pete!
For Pete’s Sake!
For Crying Out Loud
You won’t get into trouble with these — and your kids won’t learn the bad words you really want to say!
