Definitions
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- noun A spiral-shaped graphic used to indicate swearing in comic strips.
- noun A string of typographical symbols, especially "@#$%&!", used (especially in comic strips) to represent an
obscenity orswearword . - noun A series of violence related images in a
speech bubble to representobscenity orswearwords
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mort Walker created Beetle Bailey and coined the word grawlix.
Ethics by Artistotle EAGEAGEAG 2010
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[1] Courtesy grawlix, I can spell the word just fine.
The National S(mut)cience Foundation Julianne 2009
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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In writing, there's the ever-handy grawlix -- that jumble of
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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Why does this character have a grawlix sewn into his shirt?
whichbe commented on the word grawlix
$%#$%%$ #$@#$@#$ ^&$^# %#)(@#$ #$)(% @#$#@$@ %$^#$!#@$ @ @#$@#$@#$ #@$@#$#@$@
August 17, 2007
rolig commented on the word grawlix
Wouldn't the plural be grawlices?
April 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word grawlix
Not according to the inventor of the word, Mort Walker. He called them grawlixes in the plural. :-)
April 22, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word grawlix
Maybe if you Latinised it as 'graulix, graulicis'...
April 22, 2008
msiii commented on the word grawlix
DEF: The use of random non-alphabet characters as one word to indicate cursing? It’s a universally understood device, and is applied in both graphic and textual settings.
July 17, 2008
alohawildcat commented on the word grawlix
I thought it was a distant cousin to gravlox.
July 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word grawlix
Msiii, no one's disputing that (I don't think). But I believe Walker was the first to coin a word for them. :-)
July 23, 2008
dontcry commented on the word grawlix
I love gravlox...
July 23, 2008
msiii commented on the word grawlix
@reesetee: Sure, no one's disputing that either. Never said I'd coin a new word. It appeared in several other wordies months ago, but without proper definition.
just want to keep it in my memory (=wordie) :)
July 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word grawlix
Gotcha. :-)
July 28, 2008
whichbe commented on the word grawlix
Grawlixes Past and Present
July 30, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word grawlix
Coined by American cartoonist Mort Walker, creator of the Beetle Bailey strip.
January 17, 2009
avivamagnolia commented on the word grawlix
grawlix (plural grawlixes or grawlix):
Spiral-shaped graphic used to indicate swearing in comic strips.
Also, a string of typographical symbols used (especially in comic strips) to represent an obscenity or swearword. You've seen this stuff a million times: &@$&@!!!
"He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spirl that rises like heat from his head." ~1995, William H. Gass, The Tunnel, p.159
January 17, 2009
avivamagnolia commented on the word grawlix
Grawlix, Illustrated Graphically for You!
January 17, 2009
kmohnkern commented on the word grawlix
According the A Way with Words, it was Charlie Rice who coined the word.
March 3, 2009
reesetee commented on the word grawlix
Kmohnkern, the text of your linked page also seems to say that Mort Walker coined the word (5th paragraph from the bottom). Am I missing something?
March 3, 2009
yarb commented on the word grawlix
He was surely brought up on Mickey Mouse and Porky Pig. He falsettoes in fright, as they do; he zips; he squeals to a halt; he varoo-ooms; he tsks; he thonks. His thonks are worthy of the three Stooges. He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spirl that rises like heat from his head.
- William Gass, The Tunnel
May 11, 2009
jeffrey.t.whitney commented on the word grawlix
mother-@*#$!@#!!!
June 11, 2009
kmohnkern commented on the word grawlix
Reesetee, the page I linked to four months ago (sorry - I'm not a frequent visitor here) mentions Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook, but in the actual A Way With Words show Martha Barnette says that Mort Walker includes "grawlix" in his "Lexicon of Comicana." Then Grant Barrett says that Walker borrowed the word from Charlie Rice. (Grant also pluralizes it as "grawlixes.")
July 10, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word grawlix
*hopes kmohnkern starts visiting more often*
July 10, 2009
oroboros commented on the word grawlix
AsteriskMan - Grawlix Translator
March 28, 2010
reesetee commented on the word grawlix
Haha! Excellent!
March 29, 2010
oroboros commented on the word grawlix
After a certain age...
May 27, 2010