salty language
Sailor's crude vocabulary
Salty language is speech containing profanity, obscenity, or crude expressions.
The saltiness suggests a rough, unrefined quality—the kind of talk associated with sailors, soldiers, or working-class settings: The film's salty language earned it an R rating.
Someone with a salty tongue swears freely or speaks bluntly.
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- curse wordsTaboo expletives
- cursingUsing profane language
- swearingProfane speech or vows
- vulgarCrude or indecent
crude · obscene · foul-mouthed · cussing · expletives · swear jar · blue · coarse · raunchy · filthy · sailor · trucker · locker room · colorful · choice words · four-letter · bawdy · ribald
register and propriety
salty languagepolite conversation
Courteous social discourse
clean language · refined language · civil discourse · diplomatic language
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