Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) analytic methods enable an integrated semantic-pragmatic approach to swear and curse word use (here) in Australian (AUE) and American English (AE). Semantic explications for a string of these words in AUE include a speaker metalexical awareness part, and cultural scripts are advanced to seize some Anglo ethnopragmatic suppositions on how swear and curse word use may be influenced by familiarity, solidarity, and reciprocity perceptions. Differences between AUE and AE are debated at several points.