Vulgarism, n.
Etymology: [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for vulgarism; he lists it under slang.
Where he writes about it:
A vulgarism is an expression decidedly incorrect, and the use of which is a mark of ignorance or low breeding. — from slang
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