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What could shock more or less, for example?
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four-letter word
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane , including common popular or slang terms for excretory functions , sexual activity and genitalia , and (depending on the listener/reader) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ "Diet" has become a four-letter word in the commercial weight-loss business; now they're called "foodplans." ▪ No four-letter words, please - this is a family show. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The best four-letter word in the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive [syn: four-letter Anglo-Saxon word ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A reference to any of several of the strongest English swearwords that are also four letters long, especially those composing the so-called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/seven%20dirty%20words. 2 A swearword or any words considered to be taboo in a given ...
Usage examples of four-letter word.
There's nothing like that four-letter word to strike terror in the hearts of Carolinians.
He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than fourteen -- a five-and-ten-cent-store Cleopatra, a four-letter word.
I was about to knock on it, when a man on the other side uttered a four-letter word.
Oaths, blasphemies, and one recurring four-letter word filled the air like fog.
He finds when he ends at ZZZZ that he has merely compiled a list of every possible four-letter word—.
He used every foul, four-letter word he could think of while he insulted him, but the one word that finally got a reaction was coward.