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sweary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From swear + -y.

Meanings

  1. (informal) Inclined to swear; characterised by bad language.
    • If she writes me a letter like that I'll spew. Which brings to mind another effect of the holiday — I've got swearier. 2004, Elizabeth Honey, The Ballad of Cauldron Bay:
    • […] 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 […] 2007, J M Tyree, Ben Walters, The Big Lebowski:
    • She sensed that there were bigger things than a "sweary" sentence in the forefront of her buckaroo's mind. 1914, B M Bower, The Ranch at the Wolverine:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
swearier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
sweariest Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

sweariness · swearily

Synonyms

swearsome