Vulgar
The term vulgar originally meant "of the common people", from the Latin vulgus.The term is now commonly used to describe things that are, from the viewpoint of the person using the word, in bad taste[?], indecent[?], or profane.
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his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd
and straightfor'ard as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it
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come to that, Smiley would ante up money on him as long as he had a re/red.html">red.
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fetch him down-town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a feller
might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't--it's only just a frog.'
"And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round
I should judge--he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
"The feller took the box again, and took another long, partiular look,
'I don't see no pints about that frog that's any better'n any other
you don't understand 'em; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you
resk forty dollars the he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.'
"And the feller studied a minute, and then says, kinder sad-like, 'Well,
I'd bet you.
"And then Smiley says, 'That's all right0-that's all right if you'll hold
box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley's, and set.html">set.html">set down to
he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and
set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in
in, and give him to this feller and says:
"'Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore paws
three--git' and him and the feller touches up the frogs from behind, and
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