"using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant" [Johnson], 1570s, from scurrile "coarsely joking" (c. 1500, implied in scurrility), from Latin scurrilis "buffoonlike," from scurra "fashionable city idler, man-about-town," later "buffoon." According to Klein, "an Etruscan loan-word." Related: Scurrilously; scurrilousness.
中文解释
1. scurrilous jokes 粗俗笑话, 下流笑话。
实用例句
1. Scurrilous and untrue stories were being invented.
有人正在捏造虚假诽谤的故事。
来自辞典例句
2. She was often quite scurrilous in her references to me.
她一提起我,常常骂骂咧咧的.
来自辞典例句
3. Her scurrilous performances have already condemned her.
她的信口漫骂的演出已给她定了罪.
来自辞典例句
4. Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.
我想, 准是撒旦丢在那儿, 有意中伤阁下您的.
来自英汉文学 - 红字
5. She was frightened by an utterly false accusation and an utterly scurrilous threat.
