G-word

See also: g-word

English

Noun

G-word (plural G-words)

1. (euphemistic) The word God.
   • 2007, Michael L. Klassen, Bad Religion: The Psychology of Religious Misbehavior, →ISBN, page 56:

     [...] are not afraid to use the "G word." The divine is their "distinctive product," their "unique business proposition." Still, it is a risky business. The experience of the divine is anything but conformist, it bends to no formal business plan, and it can be ...

   • 2010, Harry Webster, Venting, Somebody Had to Say It, →ISBN, page 110:

     G-word: The Constitution gives us the right to use the G-word and religious freedom. The Declaration of Independence has the G-word in it. Our Pledge of Allegiance has the G-word, and our money has the G-word.

2. Alternative letter-case form of g-word (“any other word beginning with g”)
   • 2014, Geoffrey Robertson, An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?, →ISBN:

     When the Swedish Parliament and the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs used the 'G' word, Prime Minister Erdoğan responded by threatening to deport 100,000 Armenian guest workers[.]

Related terms

• g-word (“gay, or another word beginning with g”)

See also

• (‘x’-word euphemisms) a-word, b-word, c-word, d-word, e-word, f-word, g-word / G-word, h-word, i-word, j-word, k-word, l-word, m-word, n-word, o-word, p-word, q-word / Q-word, r-word, s-word, t-word, u-word, v-word, w-word, x-word, y-word, z-word; see also C-bomb, f-bomb, f-slur, L-bomb, n-bomb, Q-slur, r-slur