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rudery

noun

Etymology

From rude + -ry.

  1. derived from rudis — “rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”
  2. derived from rude
  3. inherited from rude
  4. suffixed as rudery — “rude + ry”

Definitions

  1. Crudeness

    Crudeness; the use of crude language.

    • 1992, Jeremy Isaacs, quoted in John Hartley, Tele-ology: Studies in Television, page 67, But if people try to blow the transmitters by their rudery they are going to make life very difficult for themselves and for the Channel.
    • The other children loved his nickname and were now able to share the ruderies they didn′t dare read out in the French lesson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rudery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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