foul-mouthed
to use vulgar language
TRANSLATION
foul-mouthed = unflätig, vulgär --- GOOGLE INDEX foul-mouthed: approximately 3,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
FOUL-MOUTHED train passenger arrested in South London
(New York Daily News)
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"Although there are a couple of things I'd still like to do. I am looking forward to playing a FOUL-MOUTHED grumpy old dude one day, that's for sure."
- Hollywood actor Brad Pitt
(New York Daily News)
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"Although there are a couple of things I'd still like to do. I am looking forward to playing a FOUL-MOUTHED grumpy old dude one day, that's for sure."
- Hollywood actor Brad Pitt
Did you
know?
foul mouthed
adjective phrase
- if someone is foul-mouthed, they swear a lot and use offensive language
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Foul (extremely unpleasant) is from the Old English "ful" meaning "rotten, unclean, vile, corrupt, offensive to the senses." Mouth stems from the Old English muþ and among others is related to the Old Frisian "muth," German "mund" and Middle Dutch "mont."
Great Britain's reputation as a commonwealth of very friendly and polite people is not just a stereotype, as most foreign visitors will tell you. But even the land of proper gentlemen has its foul-mouthed moments. A BBC radio newscaster once soured the airwaves after ranting about a technical problem in the studio. What he didn't know was that his foul-mouthed tirade was broadcast live.
The Radio Scotland newsreader repeatedly swore as audio for a pre-recorded report jammed during an early-morning news report. The broadcast became stuck a minute and a half into the news, repeating the words "The Borders" an irritating 38 times. The newscaster cursed and frantically pushed buttons as he tried to fix the problem, completely unaware that his microphone was still on.
Among other things he was heard sighing heavily before muttering "Oh b******t". This was followed by "Ohhh. Get me out. What the bloody hell is going on here? "S*** what the hell happened there?"
Still unaware that his obscenities were being broadcast to hundreds of thousands of listeners, he screamed: "Well f*** it. Great!! What the hell is going on here...technical f*****g faults...ahhhhhh. Forget it."
The hilarious rant was streamed to the BBC Radio Scotland website where it was live for four hours before being taken down. A BBC Scotland spokesman said: "We apologise for any offence caused and we are looking into the matter to find out how the problem with the bulletin arose."
Luckily for the newscaster, a top BBC boss came out and said foul-mouthing is "acceptable."
(story adapted from the Daily Mirror)
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SYNONYMS
dirty, indecent, obscene, off-colour, offensive, profane, rude, vulgar
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Foul-mouthed behaviour is totally unacceptable in our company."
adjective phrase
- if someone is foul-mouthed, they swear a lot and use offensive language
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Foul (extremely unpleasant) is from the Old English "ful" meaning "rotten, unclean, vile, corrupt, offensive to the senses." Mouth stems from the Old English muþ and among others is related to the Old Frisian "muth," German "mund" and Middle Dutch "mont."
Great Britain's reputation as a commonwealth of very friendly and polite people is not just a stereotype, as most foreign visitors will tell you. But even the land of proper gentlemen has its foul-mouthed moments. A BBC radio newscaster once soured the airwaves after ranting about a technical problem in the studio. What he didn't know was that his foul-mouthed tirade was broadcast live.
The Radio Scotland newsreader repeatedly swore as audio for a pre-recorded report jammed during an early-morning news report. The broadcast became stuck a minute and a half into the news, repeating the words "The Borders" an irritating 38 times. The newscaster cursed and frantically pushed buttons as he tried to fix the problem, completely unaware that his microphone was still on.
Among other things he was heard sighing heavily before muttering "Oh b******t". This was followed by "Ohhh. Get me out. What the bloody hell is going on here? "S*** what the hell happened there?"
Still unaware that his obscenities were being broadcast to hundreds of thousands of listeners, he screamed: "Well f*** it. Great!! What the hell is going on here...technical f*****g faults...ahhhhhh. Forget it."
The hilarious rant was streamed to the BBC Radio Scotland website where it was live for four hours before being taken down. A BBC Scotland spokesman said: "We apologise for any offence caused and we are looking into the matter to find out how the problem with the bulletin arose."
Luckily for the newscaster, a top BBC boss came out and said foul-mouthing is "acceptable."
(story adapted from the Daily Mirror)
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SYNONYMS
dirty, indecent, obscene, off-colour, offensive, profane, rude, vulgar
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Foul-mouthed behaviour is totally unacceptable in our company."
