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
- If two-minute penalties were handed out for four-letter words, Newman would still be in the penalty box.
- The one thing everything shies away from: whatever the etymology of jazz, it's almost certainly the same as the etymology of gism with all the four-letter words in dictionaries, why is this one usually absent? Languagehat.com: WORDS OF THE YEAR.
- The age of free love and four-letter words was not congenial to this son of a Methodist lay-preacher.
- My language was colourful and consisted of mostly four-letter words.
- As Carl Franklin bleeped out four-letter words at Adobe on a recent episode of one of his vehicles, Dave Winer can really rip into Bill Gates: [...] Scripting News for 6/20/2006 « Scripting News Annex
- She let loose a string of four-letter words.
- I forbore to suggest that a farm dog's life spent chained, minimally fed and continually exposed to so many four-letter words that the dogs learnt to spell them was probably not the dogs' idea of heaven, either.
- And if researchers can start pushing more of their response numbers toward 100 percent, we can more easily start talking about oncology's favorite four-letter word: cure.
- She let loose a string of four-letter words.
- Preceding the word retrieval / scene encoding phase, participants were presented in the scanner with a "localizer" task involving passive viewing of either 80 spatial scenes, 80 four-letter words, or a fixation cross. PLoS Biology: New Articles
