scurrile

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scurrile

/ˈskʌɹaɪl/ UK
/ˈskɝɹɪl/ US
/ˈskɝɹaɪl/ US

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From French scurrile, from Latin scurrilis.

adjective more scurrile · most scurrile

archaic Scurrilous. For had an Angel bin his discipliner, unlesse it were for dwelling too much upon Ciceronianisms, & had chastiz'd the reading, not the vanity, it had bin plainly partiall; first to correct him for grave Cicero, and not for scurrill Plautus, whom he confesses to have bin reading not long before

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@misc{scurrile_2026,
  title = {scurrile},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scurrile},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}