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Impoliteness
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
impolite
1612, "unrefined, rough," from L. impolitus, from in- "not" + politus "polished" (see polite). Sense of "discourteous, ill-mannered" is from 1739.
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