cuss

Map of profanities, slurs, and obscenities to a sureness rating. This rating does not represent how vulgar a term is, instead, how likely it is to be used as either profanity or clean text.

Install

npm:

npm install cuss

Use

var cuss = require('cuss')

console.log(Object.keys(cuss).length) // 1776

console.log(cuss.beaver) // 0
console.log(cuss.asshat) // 2

Usage of locale versions

To use Portuguese (as used in Brazil), do:

var cuss = require('cuss/pt-br')

console.log(Object.keys(cuss).length) // 173

console.log(cuss.burro) // 1
console.log(cuss.bixa) // 2

API

cuss

cuss is a dictionary of phrases to ratings (Object.<number>), where each key can be considered offensive, and each rating is a number between 0 and 2 (both including), representing the certainty the key is used as a profanity depending on context.

Support

• index.json — ± 1770 English profane words and phrases from Luis von Ahn’s Research Group (Carnegie Mellon), the List of ethnic slurs from WikiPedia, and many contributions since)
• ar-latn.json — ± 250 Arabic (Latin-Script) profane words and phrases from naughty-words and youswear
• es.json — ± 650 Spanish profane words and phrases from naughty-words, revistagq.com, taringa.net, mundoxat.om
• fr.json — ± 740 French profane words and phrases from wiktionary.org
• it.json — ± 800 Italian profane words and phrases from Italian profanity (WikiPedia); Italian slang Italian offensive terms Italian dialectal terms Italian jocular terms (Wiktionary); Parole oscene (Treccani); and chucknorris-io/swear-words
• pt-br.json — ± 148 Brazilian Portuguese profane words from aprenderpalavras.com
• pt-pt.json — ± 45 Portuguese profane words from wikipedia and common culture

Related

• buzzwords — List of buzzwords
• dale-chall — List of familiar American-English words (1995)
• fillers — List of filler words
• hedges — List of hedge words
• profanities — List of the same profane words, but without the sureness
• spache — List of simple American-English words (1974)
• weasels — List of weasel words

Contributing

Thanks, contributions are greatly appreciated! 👍

New terms can be added to the corresponding JSON file as listed in the support section.

To add a new language, create a new JSON file using a lower-cased and dash-cased preferred (according to the IANA registry) BCP 47 language tag.

After adding a word, run npm install to install all required dependencies, then npm test to update: the project includes some scripts to make sure everything is in order. Finally, open a Pull Request.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer