nasty
Forms
- Comparative
- nastier
- Superlative
- nastiest
- Plural
- nasties
Definitions
1.Dirty, filthy.
- I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty.
2.Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
- Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.
3.Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
- ‘It's a nasty trade,’ said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.
4.Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
- He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
- We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.
1.Sexual intercourse.(slang)
2.Something nasty.(informal)
- Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties.
- This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties.
- I also urge the regular visual examination of the rectum (anoscopy) for people who engage in rectal sex, for the early detection of rectal warts, hemorrhoids, fissures, all those rectal nasties.
3.A video nasty.
- Jones evokes the nasties discursively to brand the Splat Pack as 'authentic outlaws'.
- In this way, it is hoped that the nasties will be dealt with, and the remainder regularized.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4076
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English nasty, nasti, naxty, naxte (“unclean, filthy”), whence also Early Modern English nasky (“nasty”), of obscure origin. Probably from earlier Middle English *naskty, *naskedy, from Middle English *nasked (“dirty, messy”) + -y, ultimately of North Germanic origin (comparable to Danish nasket (“dirty, foul, unpleasant”), Swedish naskot (“dirty, filthy”), Swedish naskig, naskug (“nasty, dirty, messy”)), themselves all probably related to Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“tender, soft”). Likely doublet of nesh and nosh. Cognate with Scots nastie, nestie (“dirty, filthy”).