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p-word

p-word noun: any vulgar/taboo word starting with p, e.g. piss, penis, pussy, poof, prick, or Paki.

Noun (1)

p-word (plural p-words)

  1. (euphemistic) Any vulgar/taboo word starting with p, e.g. piss, penis, pussy, poof, prick, or Paki.
  2. prosodic word, phonological word.
  3. A preposition or adverb that no longer performs a prepositional or adverbial function including particles in phrasal verbs, quasi-modal verbs, and determiner phrases and infinitive markers.

Noun (2) capitalized: P-word

P-word (plural P-words)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of p-word.

Synonyms of p-word

Forms of p-word

pluralp-words
alternative formP-word
pluralP-words

Origin of p-word

From p + word.

Questions about p-word

What does p-word mean?
P-word means any vulgar/taboo word starting with p, e.g. piss, penis, pussy, poof, prick, or Paki.
What part of speech is p-word?
P-word is a noun.
What is the plural of p-word?
The plural of p-word is p-words.

Words near p-word in the dictionary

  1. p-value
  2. p-values
  3. P-wave
  4. P-waves
  5. p-way
  6. p-word
  7. p-words
  8. p-zombie
  9. p-zombies
  10. p.
  11. p. c.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: p-word (page history and authors); P-word (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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