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单词 scurrility
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scurrilityn.

/skəˈrɪlɪti/
Forms: α. 1500s scurrilite, scurrillitie, skurrillity, 1500s–1600s scur(r)ilitie, scurrillity, 1600s– scurrility; β. 1500s–1600s squirilitie, 1500s squirrilitie, 1600s squirrility.
Etymology: < French scurrilité (15th cent.), or < Latin scurrīlitās , < scurrīlis : see scurrile adj. and -ity suffix.
a. The quality of being scurrilous; buffoon-like jocularity; coarseness or indecency of language, esp. in invective and jesting.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > quality or condition of being profane
scurrility?a1513
profanity1563
dirtiness1649
smuttiness1688
foulmouthedness1833
α.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 202 Scarth fra scorpione scaldit in scurrilitie.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFiiiv Scurrilite, or spekyng of filthy wordes.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 4 Your reasons at Dinner haue been..pleasant without scurillitie . View more context for this quotation
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 3 I list not to contend with him in scurrilitie and bad language.
1759 Symmer in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 414 The hawkers..every day have some new piece of scurrility against him, to bawl about the streets.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 650 He was, as usual, interrupted in his defence by ribaldry and scurrility from the judgment seat.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 346 The Sacrament of the Mass..was attacked with a scurrility and profaneness, which passes belief.
β. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Bjv I came not yet to be the Kinges foole, Or to fill his eares with seruile squirilitie.1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 6 v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The heathen misliked in an orature squirilitie.1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. i. sig. B4v So long as your mirth bee voyde of all Squirrility.
b. Something scurrilous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language
swarec1200
shit-wordc1275
words of villainya1300
filtha1400
reveriec1425
bawdry1589
scurrility1589
bawdy1622
tongue-worm1645
borborology1647
Billingsgatry1673
double entendre1673
smut1698
blackguardism1756
slang1805
epithet1818
dirty word1842
French1845
language1855
bad languagec1863
bestiality1879
swear-word1883
damson-tart1887
comminative1888
double entente1895
curse-word1897
bang-words1906
soldier's farewell1909
strong languagea1910
dirty story1912
dirty joke1913
bullocky1916
shitticism1936
Anglo-Saxonism1944
sweary1994
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxxi. 50 Such among the Greekes were called Pantomimi, with vs Buffons, altogether applying their wits to Scurrillities & other ridiculous matters.
1735 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 287 (note) Concanen..was author of several dull and dead scurrilities in the British and London Journals.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xi. 244 Who could have imagined that the writers of these scurrilities were scholars.
c. Buffoon-like behaviour. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > in conduct
harlotryc1384
May game1571
scogginism1593
buffianism1596
delirium1599
fooling1602
scoggery1602
buffoonism1611
nonsense1612
scurrility1614
buffoonery1621
buffooninga1672
buffoon1780
pantomime1781
zanyism1823
harlequinade1828
1614 J. Norden Labyrinth Mans Life sig. L4 Heroicke acts, that make men honorable, Are only sweet and most inestimable; The rest are false, found mere scurrilitie, By which some loose, both fame and dignitie.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 24 We may as well say, Cats, Goates and Apes, are by chance given to voracitie, lust, and squirilitie.

Derivatives

scuˈrrilitiship n. Obsolete ? the state of persons who indulge in scurrility.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes G 2 b Maister Bird shall..meeter it mischieuously in maintenance of their scurrilitiship and ruditie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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