dirty language
Words requiring soap
Dirty language is speech considered vulgar, obscene, or inappropriate—profanity, sexual references, and taboo words.
Parents warn children against dirty language; comedians trade in it.
The phrase treats certain words as contaminating, something that soils the speaker or listener: Watch your mouth—no dirty language at the dinner table.
- curseInvoked harm through words
- four-letter wordShort crude expression
- tauntInsulting provocation
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- jeerVocal expression of scorn
scatology · invective · kiss my ass · ribaldry · crudeness · locker room talk · insult · indecency · pejorative · expletive · sneer · salaciousness · spit · smut · vilification · obscenity · bawdiness · raunchiness
dirty languageformal language
Elevated, rule-governed expression
eloquent speech · Queen's English · proper English · diplomatic language · courtly speech
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