If you have children or have been around children you must know how difficult it can be to come up with suitable child-friendly alternatives to cussing.
To help you out we have put together some of our favorite words and phrases that can be used instead of cussing. Pretty sure that some of these will give you a little giggle as well as save you in a tricky situation!
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Alternative Cuss Words & Phrases
Here are some of our favorite alternatives to swearing. Many will give everyone a laugh when you use them but they are far better than cussing in front of children.
- Aw, duck water
- Aw, noodles
- Ay, caramba
- Balderdash
- Banana shenanigans
- Barbra Streisand
- Barnacles
- Blimey
- Booger
- Booger snot
- Bogus
- Bolshevik
- BS
- Bucket head
- Bull snot
- Bullspit
- Bull twinkies
- Caca
- Caesar’s ghost
- Cheese and crackers
- Cheese and rice
- Cheeses
- Confound it
- Con sarnit
- Corn nuts
- Cowabunga
- Crap
- Crappity
- Crapola
- Crepes
- Crikey
- Criminy
- Crud
- Crud muffin
- Dadgummit
- Dag
- Dag nabbit
- Dang
- Dang rabbit
- Darn
- Darnit
- Dillweed
- Doo-doo
- Donut holes
- Drat
- Eat soup
- Eat slugs
- Egad
- Fart knocker
- Feck off
- Fiddle faddle
- Fiddlesticks
- Fish paste
- Ficksticks
- Flaming Nora
- Flippin
- Fudge berries
- Fudge nuggets
- Funk
- Frack
- Fraggle rock
- For cryin’ out loud
- For heavens sake
- For Pete’s sake
- Gadzooks
- Galloping gremlins
- Gee whiz
- Gee willikers
- Geez
- Geez Louise
- Geez Terwilliger
- Great googly moogly
- Great Scott
- God bless America
- God bless it
- Go lick a duck
- Golly
- Golly gee
- Good gravy
- Good grief
- Goodness gracious great balls of fire
- Good night
- Gordon Bennett
- Gosh
- Gosh darn it
- Hamburgers
- Heavenly days
- Heaven to Betsy
- H-E-double hockey sticks
- Heck
- Hells bells and cockle shells
- Hobknocker
- Holy cannoli
- Holy carp
- Holy cow
- Holy guacamole
- Horsefeathers
- Horse hockey
- Horse pitooty
- Horse puckey
- I don’t give a Donald Duck
- I don’t give a flying flip
- Jackwagon
- Jeepers
- Jeepers creepers
- Jerk water
- Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
- Jiminy Cricket
- Judas priest
- Jumpin’Jehoshaphat
- Jumpin Jiminy
- Kiss my grits
- Kitty whiskers
- Leapin’ lizards
- Marklar
- Malarkey
- Microbe
- Merlin’s beard
- Merlin’s pants
- Merlin’s pink tutu
- Mother fathers
- Mother Francis
- Mother of pearl
- Mothersmucker
- Mylanta
- Narf
- Nerts
- Oh, balls
- Oh, coconuts
- Oh dear
- Oh, fudge
- Oh man
- Oh my gosh
- Oh my goodness
- Oh my life
- Oh, ship
- Oh shish kabob
- Oh, snap
- OMG
- Peanut butter and jelly
- Peas and rice
- Phooey
- Pickles
- Pishposh
- Pluck it
- Pokemon
- Poo
- Poo on a stick
- Raspberries
- Rats
- Richard
- Sam hill
- Schnikes
- Scuddle butt
- Sheesh
- Shikaka
- Shitake mushrooms
- Shizzle
- Shnookerdookies
- Shoot
- Shucks
- Shucky darn
- Shut the front door
- Shuzzbutt
- Six and two is eight
- Snickerdoodle
- Snot
- Sodding
- Son of a Baptist preacher
- Son of a bacon bit
- Son of a biscuit
- Son of a brisket
- Son of a Bisquick pancake
- Son of a bucket
- Son of a gun
- Son of a monkey
- Son of a motherless goat
- Son of a mother trucker
- Son of a nutcracker
- Suck eggs
- Sufferin’ succotash
- Sugar
- Sweet nibblits
- Tartar sauce
- Ticked
- Troll bogeys
- Toot
- Tottering tadpoles
- William Shatner
- What a donkey
- What the heck
- What the frog
- What the cuss
- What the devil
- What the hey
- What the what
- Well butter my bum
- Wing nut
- Yuck fou
- Zoinks
The Final Thought
I hope that our list of alternative words and phrases to cussing has given you some great alternatives to use in front of your children. The important thing to remember when thinking of an alternative word is to be creative and have a little fun with it.
