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vulg.

vulg. is the abbreviation of vulgar.

vulg. is the abbreviation of vulgarly.

Meaning of vulgar

Adjective

vulgar (comparative more vulgar or vulgarer, superlative most vulgar or vulgarest)

  1. Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
    • vulgar language
  2. (derogatory, historical) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
    • Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
  3. (especially) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
    • vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
  4. Being a vulgar fraction.
    • A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero.2022, Mary Jane Sterling, Algebra II All-in-One For Dummies, page 282

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Meaning of vulgarly

Adverb

vulgarly (comparative more vulgarly, superlative most vulgarly)

  1. In a vulgar manner; obscenely or unrefinedly.
    • Rosemary peeled off Sloane Square, Hartnell, decorations-will-be-worn, fog primroses, crumpets by the fire, and let fly vulgarly at Vythilingam.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 498
  2. In the manner of the common people.
    • The last, the knotted fucus, which has long slender stalks, leaves small, bulbs or vesicles in the middle of the stalks, vulgarly called eelwrack, is most esteemed by our kelp-makers.1809, The Tradesman, volume 3, page 1

Proper noun capitalized: Vulg.

Vulg.

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Vulgate.

Questions about vulg.

What is vulg. the abbreviation of?
Vulg. is the abbreviation of vulgar.
What part of speech is vulg.?
Vulg. is a proper noun.

Words near vulg. in the dictionary

  1. vulcanology
  2. vulcanos
  3. Vulcans
  4. Vulcanus
  5. vulg
  6. vulg.
  7. vulgar
  8. Vulgar Era
  9. vulgar fraction
  10. vulgar fractions
  11. Vulgar Latin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulg. (page history and authors); Vulg. (page history and authors); vulgar (page history and authors); vulgarly (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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