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foul-mouthed, a.|ˈfaʊlˌmaʊðd|
[f. foul a. + mouth + -ed2.]
Of persons and their utterances: Using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 122 Like a foule-mouth'd man as hee is. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vii. §17 Those foule mouth'd papers like Blackmoors did all look alike. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 95 One of those foul⁓mouth'd Poets. 1838Macaulay Ess., Temple, Temple..complained, very unjustly, of Bentley's foul-mouthed raillery. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iv. 101 This runaway soldier and foul-mouthed Ionian satirist [Archilochus].
Hence ˈfoulˌmouthedness.
1834Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1846 II. 275 Thou hast aggravated thy offence..by thy foul-mouthedness. 1884Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 645/2 The country..has had a taste of Radical foulmouthedness. |