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VULGARISM

English dictionary: Word overview

VULGARISM (noun)
  The noun VULGARISM has 2 senses:

1. an offensive or indecent word or phrase
2. the quality of lacking taste and refinement

  Familiarity information: VULGARISM used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


VULGARISM (noun)


Sense 1vulgarism [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

An offensive or indecent word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dirty word; vulgarism; obscenity; filth; smut

Hypernyms ("vulgarism" is a kind of...):

profanity (vulgar or irreverent speech or action)

Domain member usage:

cock; dick; pecker; peter; prick; putz; shaft; tool (obscene terms for penis)

bull; bullshit; crap; dogshit; horseshit; Irish bull; shit (obscene words for unacceptable behavior)

chickenshit (a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear)

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup (slang for sexual intercourse)

asshole; bastard; cocksucker; dickhead; mother fucker; motherfucker; prick; shit; SOB; son of a bitch; whoreson (insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous)

pee; peeing; piss; pissing (informal terms for urination)

bugger all; Fanny Adams; fuck all; sweet Fanny Adams (little or nothing at all)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

shitless (extremely frightened)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vulgarism"):

bawdry; bawdy (lewd or obscene talk or writing)

scatology (a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions))


Sense 2vulgarism [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The quality of lacking taste and refinement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

vulgarity; grossness; raunch; commonness; vulgarism; coarseness

Hypernyms ("vulgarism" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)


English Proverbs
"Everything comes to him who waits."
(English proverb)
"Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart."
(Native American proverb, Omaha)
"Your tongue is your horse— if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you betray it, betrays it will."
(Arabic proverb)
"No man has fallen from the sky learned."
(Czech proverb)


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