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Crudity
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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| crude (kruːd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgar: a crude joke |
| 2. | in a natural or unrefined state |
| 3. | lacking care, knowledge, or skill: a crude sketch |
| 4. | (prenominal) stark; blunt: the crude facts |
| 5. | (of statistical data) unclassified or unanalysed |
| 6. | archaic unripe |
| —n | |
| 7. | short for crude oil |
| [C14: from Latin crūdus bloody, raw; related to Latin cruor blood] | |
| 'crudely | |
| —adv | |
| 'crudity | |
| —n | |
| 'crudeness | |
| —n | |
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