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单词 four-letter man
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four-letter man
four-letter adj. consisting of four letters; applied esp. to any of several monosyllabic English words, referring to the sexual or excretory functions or organs of the human body, that are conventionally excluded from polite use; four-letter man, an obnoxious person.
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the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language)
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luscious1614
peppering1712
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unquotable1821
sulphurous1828
piercent1829
unrepeatable1831
bituminous1878
sultry1891
unprintable1898
four-letter1923
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 265 Shit,..un type embêtant... L'euph. est four-letter-man.
1924 ‘J. Sutherland’ Circle of Stars xxiii. 236 Carter isn't that kind of a four letter man if he does soak.
1927 C. S. Lewis Let. 12 Dec. (1966) 122 Louis the Pious was ‘a man of blameless and virtuous habits’—tho' every other sentence in the chapter makes it clear that he was a four letter man.
1934 Amer. Speech 9 264/1 The obscene ‘four-letter words’ of the English language are not cant or slang or dialect, but belong to the oldest and best established element in the English vocabulary.
1934 Amer. Speech 9 267/1 For most people, the bare word forms of these four-letter words have become sexual fetishes.
1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) ii. iii. 97 Ashamed at having been a four-letter man about books.
1947 A. Huxley Let. 9 Mar. (1969) 568 She would bring him to amorous life again by re-assuming her cockney accent..going very nearly to the point of murmuring four-letter words into his ear.
1960 Times 7 Nov. 17/4 Having regard to the state of current writing, it seems that the prosecution against Lady Chatterley can only have been launched on the ground that the book contained so-called four-letter words.
1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xvii. 164 Felix regarded Randall as a four-letter man of the first order.
1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning xx. 188 He was heckled. Immediately, he exploded in a rash of four-letter words and the curtain came down.
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