Fescennine

Quick meaning: Fescennine is an adjective meaning Obscene or scurrilous.

Meaning

Obscene or scurrilous.

Example Sentences

For instance, I admit that this book is anacreontic, paphian, and sometimes even fescennine […]

As the poet decorously shows his desire to consummate the marriage, he retains the fescennine element without being crude.

The conventional complaint over the delay in the proceedings is voiced by the poet in […] [this] series of questions which include fescennine teasing of the bridal couple

[T]he frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High Jinks. This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include faeculent, foulmouthed, foetid, four-letter, fusome, fenny.

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