grawlix

I love gravlox...

Msiii, no one's disputing that (I don't think). But I believe Walker was the first to coin a word for them. :-)

I thought it was a distant cousin to gravlox.

DEF: The use of random non-alphabet characters as one word to indicate cursing? It’s a universally understood device, and is applied in both graphic and textual settings.

Maybe if you Latinised it as 'graulix, graulicis'...

Not according to the inventor of the word, Mort Walker. He called them grawlixes in the plural. :-)

Wouldn't the plural be grawlices?

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