dirty word

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dirty word in WordNet English dictionary

noun

an offensive or indecent word or phrase
obscenity smut vulgarism filth dirty word
a word that is considered to be unmentionable
"`failure' is a dirty word to him"
dirty word

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dirty word in English Wiktionary

(noun) A word that is considered vulgar, not necessarily sexual in nature.
(noun) (idiom) The name of a topic that a person does not like to hear or discuss.

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