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单词 vulgarism
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vulgarism

/ˈvʌlɡərɪz(ə)m /
noun
1A word or expression that is considered inelegant, especially one that makes explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions: he was hurling vulgarisms at the crowd this pronunciation was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators...
  • The language that he described as American was full of regional variation, new words borrowed from immigrant groups, figurative usage from such institutions as railroading and baseball, jaunty slang, and raucous vulgarisms.
  • In the history of genre-study or formalism, the Essay deserves a mention, particularly for its inclusiveness: prose, dialect, vulgarisms, and the low are all in.
  • Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech.
1.1 archaic An instance of rude or offensive behaviour.
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