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Chapter 31
Not Quite Naughty Words Chapter 31
Term | Definition |
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Ribald | describes something or someone that is characterized by witty hints at sexual content |
Bawdy | refers humorously coarse language allusions |
Prurient | an inappropriate variety of interest in sexual matters |
Profligate | refers to wild behavior that may be in the monetary or the sexual realm or both |
Tryst | a secret meeting planned by lovers, often couples whose love is not approved by society |
Dussolute | whose sense of a moral restrait has dissolved may be called dissolute |
Racy | neither speeding competitions nor matters of skin pigmentation, it describes something bordering on the improper |
Dalliance | a sense of playful flirtation |
Carnal | matters relating to the physical, particulary to the sexual |
Smut | as simple as a bit of soot |