DIRTY WORD as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a word that is considered to be unmentionable
   Usage Example(s)
   • `failure” is a dirty word to him
   Hypernyms(s) dirty word is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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2. Meaning
   • an offensive or indecent word or phrase
   Synonym(s)
   • obscenity (what does obscenity mean?)
   • vulgarism (what does vulgarism mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) dirty word is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • profanity (what does profanity mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • bawdry (what does bawdry mean?)
   • bawdy (what does bawdy mean?)
   • scatology (what does scatology mean?)