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what is the oldest known eupheism

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CoryLynn14 CoryLynn14

21-09-2016

So they came up with this word — this is up in Northern Europe — bruin, meaning "the brown one" as a euphemism, and then bruin segued into bear. We know the euphemism, but we don't know what word it replaced, so bear is the oldest-known euphemism.

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