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Definition of Curse word
1. Noun. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger. "Expletives were deleted"
Generic synonyms: Profanity
Derivative terms: Curse, Curse, Cuss, Swear
Definition of Curse word
1. Noun. A word that is a vulgarity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curse Word
Literary usage of Curse word
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality by Sidney Lanier (1914)
"... the curse of Prometheus before the reader is consummated by raising up the
phantasm of Jupiter which repeats the curse, word for word. ..."
2. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1907)
"lu citing the curse-word it is used like a verb of speaking •' if we swear with
the word" (iti). etc. In the sense "beseech," obsecro, the ace. pers. with ..."
3. Siam: Or, The Heart of Farther India by Mary Lovina Cort (1886)
"The following is a list of words which he gives with their meanings, all in
English: "Wig: hypocrite hair, flattery: a good kind of curse- word. ..."
4. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... gee-whiz for Jesus, tarnal for eternal, tarnation for damnation, cuss for
curse, holy gee for holy Jesus, cussword for curse-word, ..."
5. Zarathustra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel: Being a Treatise Upon the by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1906)
"... have not known of the existence of'Such a title, a very curse-word or swear-word
sounded in anathemas throughout the entire Middle North of the Empire. ..."
6. A Lone Woman in Africa: Six Years on the Kroo Coast by Agnes McAllister (1896)
"They are familiar with the word' hell,' having learned it as a curse- word at
sea, and know it is some bad place. " I said that I was glad that their ..."
7. Methodist Magazine (1900)
"They've yet to hear the first curse- word from me—I don't swear at them myself,
nor allow them that lives with me to misuse 'em ; it ain't Christian- like. ..."
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