Vul"gar*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1.
Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2.
A vulgar phrase or expression.
A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
Coleridge.
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