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The earliest euphemisms documented use of the word in this original sense of intimacy or familiarity between people dates from 1225, and privy council (a small group of advisers to the monarch) from 1300, when Edward I established it.
Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut(s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery.
One deplores "Microspeak," the company's hideous, responsibility-avoiding euphemisms: A bug, for example, is a "known issue."
There are many drinks in this category, as one might expect, since so many of the euphemisms for drunk (smashed, bombed , etc.) etc.) also refer to destruction:
The jargon also becomes sprinkled with euphemisms, among which I count health care professional , a definition for which—too long to repeat here—appears in this book under professional .