scurril

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SCUR'RIL, adjective [L. scurrilis, from scurra , a buffoon.] Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; low; mean; grossly opprobrious in language; scurrilour; as scurril jests; scurril scoffing; scurril taunts.
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