Commentary for Megillah 49:14

המכנה בעריות משתקין אותו: תנא רב יוסף קלון אביו וקלון אמו:

One who uses euphemisms in the portion dealing with forbidden sexual relations, he is silenced. Joseph taught: [If, for example, he says] “The shame of his father, the shame of his mother.”

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