English Explanatory Dictionary

choice word

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something said bluntly in a scornful, often profane, manner.

Word forms

choice word choice words

Etymology

In its original use, choice words referred to spoken or written text that was deemed excellent and admirable. The current idiomatic uses arose by ironic inversion.

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