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Expletive is a @#^$(*@% term in linguistics for a #@$%&$&! meaningless word filling a ~$#**$@#%!@#$ syntactic vacancy (syntactic expletives). Rather than actually meaning something in itself, it suggests the strength of feeling, usually anger or irritation, but sometimes admiration, etc. Meaningless uses of inoffensive words are seldom referred to as "expletive", but do technically count. Europa has some expletives and expressions unique to their use as well as the ones we're used to. They are listed below with who said them:

Expletive Name Comic
{{{expletive sort}}}Mon dieu! {{{character sort}}}Hugo Glassvitch {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Mon dieu! {{{character sort}}}Hugo Glassvitch {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Mon dieu! {{{character sort}}}Fashion Clank {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Mein gott! {{{character sort}}}Theo DuMedd as Lucrezia[1] {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Dios {{{character sort}}}Unnamed doctor {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Good Lord {{{character sort}}}Countess Marie {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Good Lord {{{character sort}}}Carson von Mekkhan {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}B'god {{{character sort}}}Captain Radio-Hat {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Götterdämmerung! {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Gott's little feesh in trousers! {{{character sort}}}Minsk {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Gott's leedle feesh in trousers! {{{character sort}}}Mamma Gkika {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Good heavens {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Good heavens {{{character sort}}}Boris Dolokhov {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Great heavens {{{character sort}}}Carson von Mekkhan {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Great heavens {{{character sort}}}Doctor Sun {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Great heavens {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Good heavens {{{character sort}}}Tarvek Sturmvoraus {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}What the hell {{{character sort}}}Tiktoffen {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Blast it {{{character sort}}}Tarsus Beetle {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Blast it {{{character sort}}}Tarsus Beetle {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Blast {{{character sort}}}Zola Malfeazium {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Red fire {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Red fire {{{character sort}}}Sergeant Zuli {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Drat {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Drat {{{character sort}}}Othar Tryggvassen {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Dem {{{character sort}}}Unnamed Jäger {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Damn {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Damn {{{character sort}}}Bangladesh DuPree {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Damnation {{{character sort}}}Gilgamesh Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}By damn! {{{character sort}}}Carson von Mekkhan {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Confound it {{{character sort}}}Gilgamesh Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}For pity's sake {{{character sort}}}Klaus Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Sweet lightning. {{{character sort}}}Tarvek Sturmvoraus {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Sweet lightning! {{{character sort}}}Abner {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Sweet lightning! {{{character sort}}}Moloch von Zinzer {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}What on— {{{character sort}}}Agatha Heterodyne {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Sweet lightning! {{{character sort}}}Agatha Heterodyne {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Suffering sanddragons! {{{character sort}}}Wilhelm Diamant {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Dear me {{{character sort}}}Castle Heterodyne[2] {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Oh, dear. {{{character sort}}}Castle Heterodyne {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Oh, dear. {{{character sort}}}Castle Heterodyne {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Bloody {{{character sort}}}Unnamed assassin {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}By Gwangi! {{{character sort}}}Zeetha {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Ashtara above! {{{character sort}}}Zeetha {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Ashtara's toerings! {{{character sort}}}Zeetha {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Jeez {{{character sort}}}Agatha Heterodyne {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Jeez {{{character sort}}}Krosp {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Jeez {{{character sort}}}Unnamed Wulfenbach soldier {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Jeez {{{character sort}}}Violetta {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Jeez {{{character sort}}}Vespiary Squad member {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Daughter of thunder! {{{character sort}}}Moloch von Zinzer {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}The heck {{{character sort}}}Moloch von Zinzer {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Oh my gosh! {{{character sort}}}Moloch von Zinzer {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Pull the rip panel[3] {{{character sort}}}airman Keller {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}I don't give a bent gear {{{character sort}}}Duke Strinbeck {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Get wound! {{{character sort}}}Gilgamesh Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Get wound. {{{character sort}}}Itto Wheelwright {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Freefalling hell {{{character sort}}}Kraddok {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Geargrit {{{character sort}}}Moloch von Zinzer {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}By de Name — {{{character sort}}}Ognian {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Thank God. {{{character sort}}}Tarvek Sturmvoraus {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Curses! {{{character sort}}}Gilgamesh Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Wow! {{{character sort}}}various {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}—the Devil?! {{{character sort}}}Wulfenbach troops captain {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Good Lord {{{character sort}}}Grantz {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Madre de Diodes {{{character sort}}}Professor Diaz {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Holy Smoke! {{{character sort}}}Moloch von Zinzer {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}—may her bones burn green {{{character sort}}}Von Pinn {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Rigger Rats! {{{character sort}}}Sleipnir O’Hara {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Blue fire! {{{character sort}}}Tarvek Sturmvoraus {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}What the devil was that all about? {{{character sort}}}Madame Olga {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}I don't give a damn about... {{{character sort}}}Baron Wulfenbach {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}what's—OW! {{{character sort}}}Unnamed soldier {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Die slowly like the miserable rats you are! {{{character sort}}}Agatha Heterodyne {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}Hoka hey! We're still alive! {{{character sort}}}Thundering Engine Woman {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}By Ashtara's holy daggers... {{{character sort}}}Zeetha {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}you filthy thief of souls... {{{character sort}}}Von Pinn/Otilia {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]
{{{expletive sort}}}what in crackthunder is... {{{character sort}}}unnamed Wulfenbach? soldier {{{page id}}} Error: Invalid time. Error: Invalid time. [[Chronology - Volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator.#Error: Invalid time.|✣ ]]

References

  1. In the story The Dragon from Mars.
  2. Through the Throne of Faustus Heterodyne.
  3. In ballooning (and presumably also true for airships) a rip panel allows for the rapid release of the balloon's contents. In other words
    "lose the hot air".
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