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rabelaisian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective rabelaisian has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rabelaisian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or like Rabelais or his writings.
2 marked by exuberant imagination and language, coarse humour, and satire.
--n. an admirer or student of Rabelais.
--adj.
1 of or like Rabelais or his writings.
2 marked by exuberant imagination and language, coarse humour, and satire.
--n. an admirer or student of Rabelais.
Etymology
F. Rabelais, Fr. satirist d. 1553
THESAURUS
rabelaisian
Fescennine, abusive, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, caustic, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, cynical, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, dry, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulminatory, fulsome, imprecatory, impure, ironic, ithyphallic, lewd, lurid, maledictory, nasty, obscene, offensive, pornographic, profane, raunchy, raw, ribald, risque, salacious, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile, vituperative
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