22 Amazing Fictional Swear Words Everyone Should Use In Real Life

15. Yarbles/Yarblockos (A Clockwork Orange)

There just aren't enough good euphemisms for testicles, are there? Nads, goolies, crown jewels and two veg are all well and good, but they just don't capture the true essence of balls quite so well as 'yarbles' does. Simple, effective and hilarious, Anthony Burgess' Nadsat profanities are strange and delightful as they are disturbing and alienating. A more violent variation is 'yarblockos', which sounds much more threatening and uncomfortable than its sister term.

14. Toaster (Battlestar Galactica)

Another word from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica, toaster is the most common racial epithet directed at the Cylons by humans, often combined with other Galactica swears, as, for example, with "Frakkin' toasters." There are variations on the word, like "toaster lover", and other derogatory phrases for Cyclons have been known to be used, such as "chromejob" for the centurions and "skinjob" for the human-like versions, but sometimes the simple words are the best, and toaster just rolls off the tongue.

13. Gorram (Firefly, Serenity)

It wasn't going to be long before Joss Whedon made an appearance, was it? His stand-in for Goddamn from the much-lamented Firefly is one of the few blasphemous fictional swears to be truly popularised, probably owing to the fact that it didn't change the original word all that much and they didn't make up any weird-sounding deities that no-one could pronounce. And, of course, it just sounds so damn cool.