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vulgar

adj
/ˈvʌl.ɡə/UK/ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).

  1. derived from *welH-✻
  2. derived from vulgāris
  3. inherited from vulgare

Definitions

  1. Debased

    Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.

    • vulgar language
    • vulgar words
    • a truly vulgar showing of affection

  2. Having to do with ordinary, common people.

    • Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
    • It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language.
    • The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

  3. Common, usual

    Common, usual; of the typical kind.

    • vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Being a vulgar fraction.

      • A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero.

    2. A common, ordinary person.

      • Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards.

    3. The common people.

    4. The language of a people, especially the commoners.

      • Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at vulgar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at vulgar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at vulgar

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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