PROFANE, PROFANITY
ADJECTIVES
► HAWCH-MOUTHED coarse, vulgar, or profane in speech; blustering, bullying → 1892 Eng. dial.
► ILL of language, conduct, etc.: bad, profane → 1699 Sc.
► PROFANATIC infatuated with profanity → 1689 obs.
► SULPHUROUS blasphemous, profane → 1828
NOUNS
► ARMY LATIN foul or profane language → 1864 US jocular usage
► DAMSON TART a humorous term for profane language → 1887 Eng. dial.
► FIVE-POUND WORD any profanity → 1982 Bahamas
► GUTTER LANGUAGE profanity and obscenity; scabrous speech → 1890 Amer. sl.
► LYRICS profanity; disparagement → 1987 Trinidad and Tobago
NOUNS – PERSON
► BLACKGUARD a foul-mouthed person; an excessive user of profanity → 1930 Amer. dial.
► DORIS DIRTHMOUTH a profane girl → Bk1971 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
PHRASES
► DO YOU KISS YOUR MOTHER WITH THAT MOUTH? used as a rejoinder to profanity → 1992 US sl.
► MISTER DICTIONARY HAS DESERTED US YET AGAIN used as a humorous comment on profanity → 1994 UK sl.
VERBS
► POLLUTE to make morally impure; to violate the purity or sanctity of; to profane or desecrate; to corrupt, to sully → a1382
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