单词 | scurrility |
释义 | scurrilityn. a. The quality of being scurrilous; buffoon-like jocularity; coarseness or indecency of language, esp. in invective and jesting. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > quality or condition of being profane scurrility?a1513 profanity1563 dirtiness1649 smuttiness1688 foulmouthedness1833 α. β. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Bjv I came not yet to be the Kinges foole, Or to fill his eares with seruile squirilitie.1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 6 v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The heathen misliked in an orature squirilitie.1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4v So long as your mirth bee voyde of all Squirrility.a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 202 Scarth fra scorpione scaldit in scurrilitie. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFiiiv Scurrilite, or spekyng of filthy wordes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 4 Your reasons at Dinner haue been..pleasant without scurillitie . View more context for this quotation 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 3 I list not to contend with him in scurrilitie and bad language. 1759 Symmer in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 414 The hawkers..every day have some new piece of scurrility against him, to bawl about the streets. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 650 He was, as usual, interrupted in his defence by ribaldry and scurrility from the judgment seat. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 346 The Sacrament of the Mass..was attacked with a scurrility and profaneness, which passes belief. b. Something scurrilous. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language swarec1200 shit-wordc1275 words of villainya1300 filtha1400 reveriec1425 bawdry1589 scurrility1589 bawdy1622 tongue-worm1645 borborology1647 Billingsgatry1673 double entendre1673 smut1698 blackguardism1756 slang1805 epithet1818 dirty word1842 French1845 language1855 bad languagec1863 bestiality1879 swear-word1883 damson-tart1887 comminative1888 double entente1895 curse-word1897 bang-words1906 soldier's farewell1909 strong languagea1910 dirty story1912 dirty joke1913 bullocky1916 shitticism1936 Anglo-Saxonism1944 sweary1994 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 50 Such among the Greekes were called Pantomimi, with vs Buffons, altogether applying their wits to Scurrillities & other ridiculous matters. 1735 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 287 (note) Concanen..was author of several dull and dead scurrilities in the British and London Journals. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xi. 244 Who could have imagined that the writers of these scurrilities were scholars. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > in conduct harlotryc1384 May game1571 scogginism1593 buffianism1596 delirium1599 fooling1602 scoggery1602 buffoonism1611 nonsense1612 scurrility1614 buffoonery1621 buffooninga1672 buffoon1780 pantomime1781 zanyism1823 harlequinade1828 1614 J. Norden Labyrinth Mans Life sig. L4 Heroicke acts, that make men honorable, Are only sweet and most inestimable; The rest are false, found mere scurrilitie, By which some loose, both fame and dignitie. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 24 We may as well say, Cats, Goates and Apes, are by chance given to voracitie, lust, and squirilitie. DerivativesΚΠ 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes G 2 b Maister Bird shall..meeter it mischieuously in maintenance of their scurrilitiship and ruditie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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