m-word

plural m-words · alternative M-word

1. euphemisticThe word motherfucker, regarded as a vulgar word.
2. Any word beginning with m that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, like midget or murder.

plural M-words

1. Alternative letter-case form of m-word.

   Given all this, you may be puzzled to hear me call myself a Marxist. […] This is not something that I often volunteer to talk about in “polite society” because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off.

   2015 February 18, Yanis Varoufakis, “Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN