"choice word" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In its original use, choice words referred to spoken or written text that was deemed excellent and admirable. The current idiomatic uses arose by ironic inversion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "choice words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "choice word (plural choice words)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Michael Karol, Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen, page 96",
          "text": "that was because many of the people who lived there were such funny, sassy ladies who had a choice word or ten about every aspect of the others' lives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tony Parker, The Frying Pan: A Prison and Its Prisoners",
          "text": "... this damn book, and I looked at it and I still remember it was Rapoport's Community As Doctor: New Perspectives On A Therapeutic Community. I've often thought since that if I ever met Dr.Rapoport, I'd have a choice word or two to say to him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 1, “Cove Rangers made to work hard for vital win against Wick Academy”, in The Press and Journal, Scotland",
          "text": "No doubt Cove Rangers manager John Sheran had a choice word or two with his players at the break after a rather lacklustre first-half performance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 23, Jeff Wilson, “End-of-season skid hasn’t been pretty for the Rangers. But don’t call them quitters”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram",
          "text": "Lynn had one choice word in particular to describe the cries that the Rangers are quitting. It’s often seen in large piles at Lone Star Park.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something said bluntly in a scornful, often profane, manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-choice_word-en-noun-eyHrVZka",
      "links": [
        [
          "bluntly",
          "bluntly"
        ],
        [
          "scornful",
          "scornful"
        ],
        [
          "profane",
          "profane"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choice word"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In its original use, choice words referred to spoken or written text that was deemed excellent and admirable. The current idiomatic uses arose by ironic inversion.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "choice words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "choice word (plural choice words)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Michael Karol, Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen, page 96",
          "text": "that was because many of the people who lived there were such funny, sassy ladies who had a choice word or ten about every aspect of the others' lives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tony Parker, The Frying Pan: A Prison and Its Prisoners",
          "text": "... this damn book, and I looked at it and I still remember it was Rapoport's Community As Doctor: New Perspectives On A Therapeutic Community. I've often thought since that if I ever met Dr.Rapoport, I'd have a choice word or two to say to him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 1, “Cove Rangers made to work hard for vital win against Wick Academy”, in The Press and Journal, Scotland",
          "text": "No doubt Cove Rangers manager John Sheran had a choice word or two with his players at the break after a rather lacklustre first-half performance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 23, Jeff Wilson, “End-of-season skid hasn’t been pretty for the Rangers. But don’t call them quitters”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram",
          "text": "Lynn had one choice word in particular to describe the cries that the Rangers are quitting. It’s often seen in large piles at Lone Star Park.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something said bluntly in a scornful, often profane, manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bluntly",
          "bluntly"
        ],
        [
          "scornful",
          "scornful"
        ],
        [
          "profane",
          "profane"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choice word"
}