Meaning of VULGARISM
| Pronunciation: | | 'vulgu`rizum
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- [n] the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- [n] obscene word or phrase
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| | Synonyms: | | coarseness, commonness, grossness, obscenity, vulgarity |
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| | See Also: | | bawdry, bawdy, inelegance, profanity, scatology | |
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| | Definition: | | \Vul"gar*ism\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2. A vulgar phrase or expression.
A fastidious taste will find offense in the
occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call
``slang,'' which not a few of our writers seem to
have affected. --Coleridge.
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