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sculduddery

sculduddery noun: grossness; bawdiness; obscenity.

Noun

sculduddery (uncountable)

  1. (Scotland) Grossness; bawdiness; obscenity.
    • You seem to have been very much offended because your father talks a little sculduddery after dinner, which it is perfectly licit for him to do, and which (although I am not very fond of it myself) appears to be entirely an affair of taste.a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “Opinions of the Bench”, in S[idney] C[olvin], editor, Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, London: Chatto and Windus […], published 1896, →OCLC...

Adjective

sculduddery (comparative more sculduddery, superlative most sculduddery)

  1. (Scotland) Gross; bawdy; obscene.

Forms of sculduddery

comparativemore sculduddery
superlativemost sculduddery

Origin of sculduddery

Of obscure origin.

Questions about sculduddery

What does sculduddery mean?
Sculduddery means grossness; bawdiness; obscenity.
What part of speech is sculduddery?
Sculduddery can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near sculduddery in the dictionary

  1. scul
  2. Sculcoates
  3. sculd
  4. Sculder
  5. sculds
  6. sculduddery
  7. sculduggeries
  8. sculduggery
  9. sculk
  10. sculked
  11. sculker

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