3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shak. Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.
VULGAR
Vul"gar, n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulgaire.]
1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] These vile vulgars are extremely proud. Chapman.
2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.]
VULGARIAN
Vul*ga"ri*an, n.
Defn: A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.
VULGARISM
Vul"gar*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.
VULGARITY Vul*gar"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulgarité, L. vulgaritas the multitude.]