rabelaisian

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Rab=e=lai=si=an

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rabelaisian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or like Rabelais or his writings.
2 marked by exuberant imagination and language, coarse humour, and satire.
--n. an admirer or student of Rabelais.

Etymology

F. Rabelais, Fr. satirist d. 1553

THESAURUS

rabelaisian

Fescennine, abusive, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, caustic, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, cynical, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, dry, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulminatory, fulsome, imprecatory, impure, ironic, ithyphallic, lewd, lurid, maledictory, nasty, obscene, offensive, pornographic, profane, raunchy, raw, ribald, risque, salacious, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile, vituperative