dirty word

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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

dirty word (plural dirty words)

A word that is considered vulgar, not necessarily sexual in nature.
- 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
  Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
The child was made to sit in the corner as punishment for saying a dirty word.
(idiomatic) The name of a topic that a person does not like to hear or discuss.
Work is a dirty word to him.

Synonyms

(vulgar term): curse, curse word, oath, profanity

Translations

word that is considered vulgar

Finnish: kirosana (fi), ruma sana
French: gros mot (fr)
German: Schimpfwort (de) n
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Russian: руга́тельное сло́во n (rugátelʹnoje slóvo), руга́тельство (ru) n (rugátelʹstvo), неприли́чное сло́во n (neprilíčnoje slóvo), бра́нное сло́во n (bránnoje slóvo)
Swedish: rumsrent ord, vulgärt ord, fult ord n, runt ord, svordom (sv)
Turkish: kötü söz

a topic that a person does not like

Finnish: kirosana (fi)
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Swedish: fult ord n

See also

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