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sweary

adj

Etymology

From swear + -y.

  1. derived from *swer-✻ — “to swear”
  2. inherited from *swarjaną✻ — “to speak, swear”
  3. inherited from *swarjan✻
  4. inherited from swerian — “to swear, take an oath of office”
  5. inherited from sweren
  6. suffixed as sweary — “swear + y”

Definitions

  1. Inclined to swear

    Inclined to swear; characterised by bad language.

    • She sensed that there were bigger things than a "sweary" sentence in the forefront of her buckaroo's mind.
    • If she writes me a letter like that I'll spew. Which brings to mind another effect of the holiday — I've got swearier.
    • […] thirty-seven shits, six assholes, two bitches and a bastard. All in all, it's quite possibly the sweariest comedy set in Los Angeles County […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sweary. 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