foul-mouthed, a.
(ˈfaʊlˌmaʊðd)
[f. foul a. + mouth + -ed2.]
Of persons and their utterances: Using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language.
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 122 Like a foule-mouth'd man as hee is. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vii. §17 Those foule mouth'd papers like Blackmoors did all look alike. 1730 A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 95 One of those foul⁓mouth'd Poets. 1838 Macaulay Ess., Temple, Temple..complained, very unjustly, of Bentley's foul-mouthed raillery. 1873 Symonds Grk. Poets iv. 101 This runaway soldier and foul-mouthed Ionian satirist [Archilochus]. |
Hence ˈfoulˌmouthedness.
| 1834 Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. 1846 II. 275 Thou hast aggravated thy offence..by thy foul-mouthedness. 1884 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 645/2 The country..has had a taste of Radical foulmouthedness. |