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Here's just a few

shit --

technical euphemisms: excrement, feces, solid waste, night soil, bowel movement, flock (sewage treatment plant technical term for shit)

humorous euphemisms: floater, turd, crap, slider

childhood euphemisms: doo-doo, poo-poo, number two, kaka.

Actually, "kaka" isn't really a euphemism. It's the ancient Greek word for "shit" (actually, anything foul and detestable, of which human excrement was just one example). The same word exists as a childhood euphemism in both English and Spanish, and I presume in many other Western languages.

for some euphemisms on "torture", see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/13/usa.humanrights

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