Meanings
nounsculduddery (uncountable)
- ScotlanduncountableGrossness; bawdiness; obscenity.
You seem to have been very much offended because your father talks a little sculduddery after dinner, which it is perfectly licit for him to do, and which (although I am not very fond of it myself) appears to be entirely an affair of taste.
a. 1895 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “Opinions of the Bench”, in S[idney] C[olvin], editor, Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance, London: Chatto and Windus […], published 1896, →OCLC, page 87
adjectivesculduddery (comparative more sculduddery, superlative most sculduddery)
comparative more sculduddery · superlative most sculduddery
Origin
Of obscure origin.
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