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Encyclopedic overview
A euphemism is a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsher, blunter, or more offensive term.
It may also substitute a description of something or someone to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated, or to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from potential eavesdroppers. Some euphemisms are intended to amuse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Euphemisms” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.