sculduddery
English
Etymology
Of obscure origin.[1]
Noun
sculduddery (uncountable)
- (Scotland) Grossness; bawdiness; obscenity.
- a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “Opinions of the Bench”, in S[idney] C[olvin], editor, Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, London: Chatto and Windus […], published 1896, →OCLC, page 87:
- You seem to have been very much offended because your father talks a little sculduddery after dinner, which it is perfectly licit for him to do, and which (although I am not very fond of it myself) appears to be entirely an affair of taste.
Adjective
sculduddery (comparative more sculduddery, superlative most sculduddery)
References
- ^ “sculduddery, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.