Meanings
plural nonswearers
- One who does not swear.
Three of the group were considered nonswearers. The others' swearing tended to be blasphemous rather than obscene, a fact that could be attributed partly to their middle-class background and partly to the mixed gender company.
2005, Ruth Wajnryb, Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language, page 146
Origin
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