So there's this linguistic term infix, a middle-of-the-word version of an affix, which The Wiki tells us is "a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word". For some English words, you can insert an expletive infix for emphasis. Check out the discussion about using "fucking" as an infix, courtesy of Linguistics: an introduction to linguistic theory:
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