Noun dirty word has 2 senses
  1. obscenity, vulgarism, dirty word - an offensive or indecent word or phrase
    --1 is a kind of profanity
    --1 has particulars: bawdry, bawdy; scatology
  2. dirty word - a word that is considered to be unmentionable; "`failure' is a dirty word to him"
    --2 is a kind of
    word
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