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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'nasty' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions nasty noun (nasties) something nasty adjective (nastier, nastiest) disgusting; physically repellent indecent or offensive malicious or spiteful He tells lies. very unpleasant It was a night to venture out. grave or dangerous The cyclist had a accident. Etymology: Unknown. Theories include: Old French nastre = "bad, strange", shortened form of villenastre ="infamous, bad", from vilein = "villain" + -astre (pejorative suffix, from Latin -aster). Dutch nestig = "dirty", literally "like a bird's nest". Old High German naz = "wet" Likely reinforced by a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish dialect naskug = "dirty, nasty"). A hardened form of an old word "neshy" = "soft". Modern usage of the word "nasty" is sometimes attributed to the very popular but often derogatory 19th Century American political cartoons of w:Thomas Nast, Thomas Nast.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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