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ribald

noun

1 ribald

A ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language.

Dutch: viezerik
Polish: grubianin, ordynus

adjective

1 ribald

Humorously vulgar:
— Ribald language.

synonyms: bawdy, off-color.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more

Roget 961: impure; unclean etc. (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, ... show more

Roget 874: disgraced etc. v.; blown upon; shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame etc. n.; in bad repute etc. ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Babbitt, Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abusive, arriviste, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, calumniatory, calumnious, churl, clown, coarse, comminatory, contumelious ... show more.

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