Coarseness
115. Coarseness
- Billingsgate site of a London fishmarket, known for foul and abusive language. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 106]
- Branghtons, the Evelina’s rude, coarse cousins. [Br. Lit.: Evelina ]
- Crawley, Sir Pitt vulgar aristocrat. [Br. Lit.: Vanity Fair ]
- Goops naughty, balloon-headed children. [Am. Lit.: Goops and How To Be Them, Hart, 323]
- Neanderthal man early form of man, Caucasoid and strongly built. [Anthropology: NCE, 1900]
- Ochs, Baron vulgar, lecherous nobleman. [Aust. Opera: R. Strauss, Rosenkavalier, Westerman, 423–425]
- Pike “he expectorates vehemently” [Am. Lit.: At Home and Abroad, Hart, 655]
- Tearsheet, Doll prostitute with vitriolic vocabulary. [Br. Lit.: II Henry IV ]
- Troglodytes race of uncivilized cave dwellers. [Gk. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1103]
- xanthium symbolizes bad manners and rudeness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]
- Yahoos loutish, abusive brutes in shape of men. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver’s Travels ]
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