obsceneadj.

Brit.

/əbˈsiːn/, U.S.

/əbˈsin/

Forms: 1500s obsceane, 1500s obsceene, 1500s– obscene, 1600s–1700s obscaene.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French obscène; Latin obscēnus.

Etymology: < Middle French obscene, French obscène indecent, offensive (1534; a1592 as obscœne (Montaigne)) and its etymon classical Latin obscēnus, obscaenus inauspicious, ill-omened, filthy, disgusting, indecent, lewd < ob- ob- prefix + a second element of uncertain origin (see note). Compare slightly earlier obscenity n., obscenous adj.Classical Latin obscēnus , obscaenus has been variously associated, by scholars ancient and modern, with scaevus left-sided, inauspicious (see scaevity n.) and with caenum mud, filth (see cœnose adj.). The derivation from scaena scene n., one of several suggested by the Latin grammarian Varro, probably represents a folk etymology.

1. Offensively or grossly indecent, lewd; (Law) (of a publication) tending to deprave and corrupt those who are likely to read, see, or hear the contents.† parts obscene n. [after classical Latin partēs obscēnae] Obsolete the genitals; also in singular.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene

lewdc1386

filthy?c1400

knavishc1405

sensual?a1425

ribaldousc1440

dishonestc1450

bawdya1513

ribald?a1513

ribaldious?1518

slovenly?1518

ribaldry1519

priapish1531

ribaldish?1533

filthous1551

ribaldly1570

obscene1571

bawdisha1586

obscenous1591

greasy1598

dirty1599

fulsome1600

spurcitious1658

lasciviating1660

smutty1668

bawdry1764

ribaldric1796

un-Quakerlike1824

fat1836

ithyphallic1856

hot1892

rorty1898

rude1919

bitchy1928

feelthy1930

raunchy1943

ranchy1959

down and dirty1969

steamy1970

sleazo1972

1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. F.viij^v Not to eschue (saith Musonius) to speake obscene and filthy wordes is the fountayne and beginning of euill liuing.

1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. iii. ix. 998 Scurrilitie is obscene & homly iesting, especially in serious matters.

1598 J. Marston Metamorph. Pigmalions Image xxxviii. 19 Be not obsceane though wanton in thy rimes.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 102 [He] lets his tongue loose to obscene and filthy Communication.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 406 Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moabs Sons.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 545 Her parts obscene below the waves descend.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 39 On the Walls..were obscene Images.

1724 I. Watts Logick i. iv. §3 Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grow obscene and uncleanly.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 115 Her [sc. Scylla's] parts obscene the raging billows hide.

1779 H. L. Piozzi Diary 10 Feb. in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) I. 368 These lines are imitated from some verses in Ben Jonson's Volpone, which are too obscæne to be borne.

1817 W. Gifford Satires Juvenal & Persius vi. 259 A lusty semivir, whose part obscene, A broken shell has sever'd smooth and clean.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 323 The rabble of Comus..reeling in obscene dances.

1899 Athenæum 14 Apr. 475/2 Our later writers are saucy rather than obscene.

1959 Act 7 & 8 Eliz. II c. 66 §1 An article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect..is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely..to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it.

1964 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 26/2 Appeal Court judges ruled..that not only sex, but drug addiction, made a book obscene and depraved.

1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Oct. 14/9 U.S.A. v. Various Articles of Obscene Merchandise.

1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy iii. 66 Tristram Shandy's obscene fascination with his mother's body and its various orifices.

2. Offending against moral principles, repugnant; repulsive, foul, loathsome. Now (also): spec. (of a price, sum of money, etc.) ridiculously or offensively high.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > offensive to taste

obscene1597

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

rotea1382

lousyc1386

unwashed?a1390

fulsomec1390

filthy?c1400

rankc1400

leprousa1425

sicka1425

miry1532

shitten?1545

murrain1575

obscene1597

vicious1597

ketty1607

putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective]

loatha700

eileOE

andsetec1000

wlatfulc1230

aloathedc1275

wlatsomea1300

unhonest13..

wlata1325

hideousc1330

abominable1340

hatefula1382

hatesomea1382

abominablec1384

odiousa1387

fulsomec1390

accursedc1400

hatousc1400

rankc1400

hateablec1425

odiblec1425

ugsomec1425

wretchedc1430

loathsomec1440

loathfula1450

noisomea1450

abhominal1477

detestable1477

loathy1481

loathing?a1513

oppugnanta1513

irksome1513

hateworthy1548

abhorful1565

ugged1570

detestine1575

ulcerous1577

opposite1578

scandalous1592

offensive1594

obscene1597

ulcered1602

dirtya1616

abhorrent1628

toady1628

envious1630

repugnant1633

nauseating1645

nauseous1646

obnoxious1646

detestful1654

reluctant1663

horrid1666

abnoxious1682

devilish1692

invidious1710

repellent1776

repellant1780

sickening1789

toadish1822

carrion1826

ugging1839

cussed1853

repugnant1879

jerky1944

vomitous1952

barfy1957

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 122 That in a Christian climate soules refinde, Should shew so heinous blacke obsceene a deed.

1622 R. Aylett Peace with her Foure Garders 54 But they at home are full of Luxurie, Base Wantonnesse, and all Immodesty; Especially obscene in filthy Lust.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. 5 Sorcerers..are shut with obscene Dogs out of the holy City.

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 262 In rags obscene decreed to roam.

1845 A. Jameson Mem. Early Ital. Painters II. 13 Hideous reptiles, as adders, lizards, toads,..and other crawling and flying obscene and obnoxious things.

1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air iii. 178 The bright Wandel, divine of waters as Castaly, is filled..with old shoes, obscene crockery, and ashes.

1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old 148 The obscene Tumble-Bug.

1915 A. Huxley Let. 1 Feb. (1969) 65 Practically speaking, Sligger and myself are the only two possible people left alive in Oxford; even the few possibilities of last term have now vanished, leaving only a sort of obscene riff-raff.

1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death i. 7 The shop windows, too, are piled with that diversity of obscene knick-knacks which nothing but the spirit of universal goodwill could surely tolerate.

1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 23 Apr. 1/8 Energy officials have already predicted that first-quarter oil profits will be ‘embarrassingly high’ or ‘whoppers’. Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., has said they'll be ‘almost obscene’.

1988 A. Brookner Late Comers ix. 146 From the café on her right..came an obscene smell of stale cooking.

1991 J. Keenan Putting on Ritz (1992) xv. 160 The gossip columns seethed with updates on who'd be attending and what celeb had shelled out some obscene sum to obtain a ticket to the sold-out event.

†3. Ill-omened, inauspicious. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > lack of promise > [adjective] > inauspicious

traversanta1500

ominous1589

inauspicious1599

unpropitious1613

unauspiciousa1616

obscene1656

traversary1851

1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 62 in Poems The trembling Serpents close and silent ly, The birds obscene far from his passage fly.

1758 J. Macpherson in Scots Mag. Oct. 551/1 While birds obscene, at noon of night, deplore, Where mighty heroes kept the watch before.

a1855 J. Eagles Sketcher (1856) vii. 170 Evil-boding fowl, and bats obscene.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	obscene
释义	obsceneadj. Brit. /əbˈsiːn/, U.S. /əbˈsin/ Forms: 1500s obsceane, 1500s obsceene, 1500s– obscene, 1600s–1700s obscaene. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French obscène; Latin obscēnus. Etymology: < Middle French obscene, French obscène indecent, offensive (1534; a1592 as obscœne (Montaigne)) and its etymon classical Latin obscēnus, obscaenus inauspicious, ill-omened, filthy, disgusting, indecent, lewd < ob- ob- prefix + a second element of uncertain origin (see note). Compare slightly earlier obscenity n., obscenous adj.Classical Latin obscēnus , obscaenus has been variously associated, by scholars ancient and modern, with scaevus left-sided, inauspicious (see scaevity n.) and with caenum mud, filth (see cœnose adj.). The derivation from scaena scene n., one of several suggested by the Latin grammarian Varro, probably represents a folk etymology. 1. Offensively or grossly indecent, lewd; (Law) (of a publication) tending to deprave and corrupt those who are likely to read, see, or hear the contents.† parts obscene n. [after classical Latin partēs obscēnae] Obsolete the genitals; also in singular. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene lewdc1386 filthy?c1400 knavishc1405 sensual?a1425 ribaldousc1440 dishonestc1450 bawdya1513 ribald?a1513 ribaldious?1518 slovenly?1518 ribaldry1519 priapish1531 ribaldish?1533 filthous1551 ribaldly1570 obscene1571 bawdisha1586 obscenous1591 greasy1598 dirty1599 fulsome1600 spurcitious1658 lasciviating1660 smutty1668 bawdry1764 ribaldric1796 un-Quakerlike1824 fat1836 ithyphallic1856 hot1892 rorty1898 rude1919 bitchy1928 feelthy1930 raunchy1943 ranchy1959 down and dirty1969 steamy1970 sleazo1972 1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. F.viij^v Not to eschue (saith Musonius) to speake obscene and filthy wordes is the fountayne and beginning of euill liuing. 1587 H. Parry tr. Z. Ursinus Summe of Christian Relig. iii. ix. 998 Scurrilitie is obscene & homly iesting, especially in serious matters. 1598 J. Marston Metamorph. Pigmalions Image xxxviii. 19 Be not obsceane though wanton in thy rimes. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 102 [He] lets his tongue loose to obscene and filthy Communication. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 406 Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moabs Sons. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 545 Her parts obscene below the waves descend. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 39 On the Walls..were obscene Images. 1724 I. Watts Logick i. iv. §3 Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grow obscene and uncleanly. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 115 Her [sc. Scylla's] parts obscene the raging billows hide. 1779 H. L. Piozzi Diary 10 Feb. in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) I. 368 These lines are imitated from some verses in Ben Jonson's Volpone, which are too obscæne to be borne. 1817 W. Gifford Satires Juvenal & Persius vi. 259 A lusty semivir, whose part obscene, A broken shell has sever'd smooth and clean. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 323 The rabble of Comus..reeling in obscene dances. 1899 Athenæum 14 Apr. 475/2 Our later writers are saucy rather than obscene. 1959 Act 7 & 8 Eliz. II c. 66 §1 An article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect..is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely..to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it. 1964 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 26/2 Appeal Court judges ruled..that not only sex, but drug addiction, made a book obscene and depraved. 1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Oct. 14/9 U.S.A. v. Various Articles of Obscene Merchandise. 1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy iii. 66 Tristram Shandy's obscene fascination with his mother's body and its various orifices. 2. Offending against moral principles, repugnant; repulsive, foul, loathsome. Now (also): spec. (of a price, sum of money, etc.) ridiculously or offensively high. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > offensive to taste obscene1597 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective] loatha700 eileOE andsetec1000 wlatfulc1230 aloathedc1275 wlatsomea1300 unhonest13.. wlata1325 hideousc1330 abominable1340 hatefula1382 hatesomea1382 abominablec1384 odiousa1387 fulsomec1390 accursedc1400 hatousc1400 rankc1400 hateablec1425 odiblec1425 ugsomec1425 wretchedc1430 loathsomec1440 loathfula1450 noisomea1450 abhominal1477 detestable1477 loathy1481 loathing?a1513 oppugnanta1513 irksome1513 hateworthy1548 abhorful1565 ugged1570 detestine1575 ulcerous1577 opposite1578 scandalous1592 offensive1594 obscene1597 ulcered1602 dirtya1616 abhorrent1628 toady1628 envious1630 repugnant1633 nauseating1645 nauseous1646 obnoxious1646 detestful1654 reluctant1663 horrid1666 abnoxious1682 devilish1692 invidious1710 repellent1776 repellant1780 sickening1789 toadish1822 carrion1826 ugging1839 cussed1853 repugnant1879 jerky1944 vomitous1952 barfy1957 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 122 That in a Christian climate soules refinde, Should shew so heinous blacke obsceene a deed. View more context for this quotation 1622 R. Aylett Peace with her Foure Garders 54 But they at home are full of Luxurie, Base Wantonnesse, and all Immodesty; Especially obscene in filthy Lust. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. 5 Sorcerers..are shut with obscene Dogs out of the holy City. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 262 In rags obscene decreed to roam. 1845 A. Jameson Mem. Early Ital. Painters II. 13 Hideous reptiles, as adders, lizards, toads,..and other crawling and flying obscene and obnoxious things. 1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air iii. 178 The bright Wandel, divine of waters as Castaly, is filled..with old shoes, obscene crockery, and ashes. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old 148 The obscene Tumble-Bug. 1915 A. Huxley Let. 1 Feb. (1969) 65 Practically speaking, Sligger and myself are the only two possible people left alive in Oxford; even the few possibilities of last term have now vanished, leaving only a sort of obscene riff-raff. 1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death i. 7 The shop windows, too, are piled with that diversity of obscene knick-knacks which nothing but the spirit of universal goodwill could surely tolerate. 1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 23 Apr. 1/8 Energy officials have already predicted that first-quarter oil profits will be ‘embarrassingly high’ or ‘whoppers’. Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., has said they'll be ‘almost obscene’. 1988 A. Brookner Late Comers ix. 146 From the café on her right..came an obscene smell of stale cooking. 1991 J. Keenan Putting on Ritz (1992) xv. 160 The gossip columns seethed with updates on who'd be attending and what celeb had shelled out some obscene sum to obtain a ticket to the sold-out event. †3. Ill-omened, inauspicious. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > lack of promise > [adjective] > inauspicious traversanta1500 ominous1589 inauspicious1599 unpropitious1613 unauspiciousa1616 obscene1656 traversary1851 1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 62 in Poems The trembling Serpents close and silent ly, The birds obscene far from his passage fly. 1758 J. Macpherson in Scots Mag. Oct. 551/1 While birds obscene, at noon of night, deplore, Where mighty heroes kept the watch before. a1855 J. Eagles Sketcher (1856) vii. 170 Evil-boding fowl, and bats obscene. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1571
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