FOUR-LETTER WORD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive

Synonyms:

four-letter Anglo-Saxon word; four-letter word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("four-letter word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

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