foulmouthed

foulmouthed
\\ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
: given to the use of obscene, profane, or abusive language

so he went off cursing like the foulmouthed blackguard that he was — A. Conan Doyle

nowhere is cant at once so foulmouthed and so tight-laced as in the penny, twopenny, threepenny, or sixpenny press — Herbert Read

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/fowl"mowdhd", -mowtht"/, adj.
using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language; given to filthy or abusive speech.
[1590-1600; FOUL + MOUTH + -ED3]

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  • foulmouthed — index profane Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • foulmouthed — also foul mouthed, 1590s, apparently first in Shakespeare [ Henry IV, 1596] …   Etymology dictionary

  • foulmouthed — [foul′mouthd′, foul′moutht′] adj. using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language …   English World dictionary

  • foulmouthed — adjective Date: 1593 given to the use of obscene, profane, or abusive language …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • foulmouthed — /fowl mowdhd , mowtht /, adj. using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language; given to filthy or abusive speech. [1590 1600; FOUL + MOUTH + ED3] * * * …   Universalium

  • foulmouthed — adjective Tending to use obscene or offensive language …   Wiktionary

  • foulmouthed — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. coarse, obscene, indecent, abusive; see lewd 1 , ribald , rude 2 …   English dictionary for students

  • foulmouthed — adj. tending to use obscene language …   English contemporary dictionary

  • foulmouthed — adj 1. profane, blackguardly, Obs. blackguard, Fescennine, rough spoken; scurrilous, Archaic. scurrile, thersitical, ribald. 2. vulgar, obscene, indecent, gross, vile, filthy, dirty, smutty, nasty, scatologic, scatological, Sl. raunchy; crude,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • foulmouthed — foul•mouthed [[t]ˈfaʊlˈmaʊðd, ˈmaʊθt[/t]] adj. using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language • Etymology: 1590–1600 …   From formal English to slang

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