VULGARISM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

2.
n.

A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.


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