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insultry

noun

Etymology

From insult + -ry.

  1. derived from insultus — “insult, reviling, scoffing”
  2. derived from insult
  3. derived from *sel-✻ — “to spring”
  4. derived from īnsultō — “to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”
  5. derived from insulter
  6. suffixed as insultry — “insult + ry”

Definitions

  1. Insults generally

    Insults generally; the habit or process of insulting.

    • “Well,” he said, “that fellow talked kind of rough to me, and I thought I might have something done to him for insultry.”
    • The complex ridden people whose main intellectual hobby seemed to be the “art” of insultry to anybody who could not speak what they called French.
    • The guest will be that sardonic sultan of insultry, the bad[-]mouthing broadcasting behemoth from the Bronx, Howard Cosell.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA