vulgarismn.
/ˈvʌlɡərɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈvəlɡəˌrɪzəm/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [noun] > native language > vernacular word or expression
vulgar1532
vulgarism1644
vernacularism1846
vernacularity1867
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 13 An ineffable latitude of significations: whose vulgarismes, varied through such multiplicity of senses, are of that note and consequence, that [etc.].
2.
a. A vulgar phrase or expression; a colloquialism of a low or unrefined character.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > vulgar language > vulgar word or expression
Newgate term1598
vulgarism1746
1746 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 28 Mar. The Countess..has entertained the town with an excellent vulgarism.
1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 43 The Sentiments..cannot be exprest with too much Plainness and Simplicity; provided all Vulgarisms are as much as possible avoided.
1798 Brit. Critic 11 136 It took him, is a grose vulgarism.
1822 M. W. Shelley in Dowden Shelley (1887) II. 381 We hear that she leads him and his mother (to use a vulgarism) a devil of a life.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §1. 449 The slipshod vulgarisms of the shopkeeper of to-day.
b. A popular corruption of a name. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > corruption of a name
vulgarism1853
1853 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxii, in Monthly Packet June 409 This romantic story,..celebrates the Saracen lady by the extraordinary title of Susy Pye, perhaps a vulgarism of her original Eastern name.
3.
a. The quality or character of being vulgar; vulgarity.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity
community1600
vulgarness1642
vulgar1655
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
tigerism1836
plebeianness1840
shopkeeperism1843
vulgarianism1920
corniness1932
kitschiness1971
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1407 Vulgarism in language is the..distinguishing characteristic of bad company and a bad education.
1771 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) iv. 345 Familiar and interesting to all Europe without being degraded by the vulgarism of ordinary life in any country.
1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella I. 168 They were generally written in a style of pretence and sometimes vulgarism.
a1821 J. Keats To Fanny in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 34 Shall I gulp wine? No, that is vulgarism.
1831 Examiner 436/2 We are..struck by the absence of vulgarism in the performance.
b. An instance of vulgarity; a vulgar action, practice, habit, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity > instance of
vulgarism1785
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > instance of
rusticity1604
clownerya1634
vulgarism1785
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life (ed. 3) IV. 158 The complaints of having nothing to do, is such a vulgarism, that I wonder any persons..can degrade themselves by the acknowledgement.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. xv. 296 Visions of good and ill breeding, of old vulgarisms and new gentilities were before her. View more context for this quotation
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 54/1 Since the scent of that flower has been voted a vulgarism!
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