NOUN
- any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive
How To Use four-letter word In A Sentence
- The word has even appeared in the funny pages where Dilbert muttered a disconsolate "frack" - the original spelling before producers of the current show changed it to a four-letter word - after a particularly dumb order from his evil twit of a boss. Gazette.com :
- A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse.
- A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse.
- The DSUE was widely regarded as filling a lexicographical gap, because it treated four-letter words and sexual and scatological vulgarities that had previously been omitted by the OED and the general run of ‘family’ dictionaries.
- Stimulus is still a four-letter word for Republicans," MF Global analyst Chris Krueger said.
- Here, too, it resembles "The Producers," which was a last-gasp homage to the anything-for-a-laugh Borscht Belt schtickery on which the stand-up comedy of my childhood was based, with four-letter words sprinkled on top to give it a factitiously up-to-date air. The Re-'Producers'
- A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse.
- Larson originally developed "frack" -- the "C" was removed later by Moore and his team to make it a true four-letter word -- as well as other words like "feldergarb" and "yahrens" to help remind audiences that while they were watching humans, they were still quite alien to what we know society to be like. Airlock Alpha
- Received Washington wisdom has it that the only Democrat who will ever be able to win a national election must be a cross between Gomer Pyle and Billy Sunday - a Scripture-quoting Sun Belt exurbanite whose loyalty to Nascar does not extend to Dale Earnhardt Jr., who was fined last month for saying a four-letter word on television. November 2004
- It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and common-place reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled.