dirty joke
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈdɜrti dʒoʊk/
- Offensive
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chiste sucio
- Indeed, the book is rife with dirty jokes, praise for hypocrites, and biting sarcasm.
- tell dirty jokes
- know dirty jokes
- hear a dirty joke
There's many dirty jokes I could make currently, but I will just not pick the low hanging fruit.
- There's many dirty jokes I could make currently, but I will just not pick the low hanging fruit.
- Everything was such an effort and he wanted, he would, when we did an interview, he would start out telling dirty jokes to the camera crew.
- No, I tell them, Tell me a dirty joke about yourself and we will be friends and so on.
Examples
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Sometimes I would tell a dirty joke to embarrass him.
Fiction book (1993) -
"She asked me if I knew of any good dirty jokes."
Fiction book (1993) -
No, I tell them, Tell me a dirty joke about yourself and we will be friends and so on.
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Or was that a dirty joke?
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So maybe it's a little weird when he tells you a dirty joke, but now you got a secret together, so you go along.
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"Robert, are you about to tell me a dirty joke?"
Academic text (2005) -
I still remember him teaching me dirty jokes as a kid.
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And they'll probably have good dirty jokes every once in a while.
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You'll have one, maybe two beers, get a little loose, and then you'll tell that one dirty joke you know.
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At the party, everyone laughed when he told a dirty joke that made the atmosphere even more relaxed.
Synonyms
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8.1
A joke or story about sex that people find rude
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8.4
Rude jokes about sex that people say privately, often among men
A joke about sex or other adult subjects that may offend some people
A rude joke about sex that can offend people
Jokes that are rude or offensive
How Indecent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable by combining 'dirty' (lewd/indecent) with 'joke' (an amusing remark): a B1 learner who knows both words will infer it refers to a joke with sexual or indecent content. This simple adjective + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows standard modification patterns, so the expression is immediately comprehensible from its parts.
Etymology
Dirty joke comes from a simple picture: dirty means 'not clean' or rude and joke means a funny story. So a dirty joke is a joke about 'sexual' or 'indecent' things.