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English
Etymology
From rude + -ry.
Noun
rudery (usually uncountable, plural ruderies)
- (countable and uncountable) Crudeness; the use of crude language.
- 1992, Jeremy Isaacs, quoted in John Hartley, Tele-ology: Studies in Television, page 67,
- But if people try to blow the transmitters by their rudery they are going to make life very difficult for themselves and for the Channel.
2007, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, page 56:Whatever contradictions fuelled, or at this time failed to fuel my cartooning, I would have been better throwing in my lot with overt rudery and dysfunction, rather than trying to gain acceptance from the effete mob that ran the New Yorker.
2010, Gerald Killingworth, Mister Misery, page 200:The other children loved his nickname and were now able to share the ruderies they didn′t dare read out in the French lesson.
2012, Duncan Wu, editor, John Gibson Lockhardt (1794—1854): Romanticism: An Anthology, page 1376:All of which is confirmed by Lockhart′s attack on Hunt′s pantheon: Voltaire (French, and therefore renowned for licentiousness), Chaucer (whose work was full of ruderies), John Buncle (the story of an amorous Unitarian) and Launcelot of the Lake (about a morally questionable liaison).
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