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Meanings of cant in English
Synonyms
Examples for "slang"
Examples for "slang"
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The ventriloquist of the vernacular on new developments in New Zealand slang.
2
Mahony used slang freely, and spoke of Father Butler as Bunsen Burner.
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This represents, for an Englishman, a practically current adaptation of American slang.
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In the UK, it's usually used as in insult, slang for penis.
5
He enlightened his auditor greatly in the line of real circus slang.
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It was clear and fairly free of jargon, which was also good.
2
In the jargon, they were far from constituting an 'optimal currency area'.
3
Jaguar Land Rover Before we continue, a few words about automotive jargon.
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The police jargon for this kind of thing was an asymmetrical situation.
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Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.
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The vernacular in America, particularly in a business sense, is cautiously professional.
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The ventriloquist of the vernacular on new developments in New Zealand slang.
3
The last song may be given in the vernacular as a specimen:
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Compare the origin of the vernacular elementary-school teacher in Germany and England.
5
You are correct in saying that racial abuse is infecting the vernacular.
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Why don't all of the PRT team members speak the local lingo?
2
A common lingo naturally sprang up like the Pigeon English of China.
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An hour in LA and she was already speaking the local lingo.
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But it wasn't the lingo that got me; it was the voice.
5
That's because I know all the gymnastics lingo that my daughters use.
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Havenite patois will work fine, since they won't know the difference anyway.
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I'm not even quite sure what patois is-somesort of meat paste?
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Where fashion patois shines, however, is in the flamboyant expression of sensibility.
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The letter is ill-written and worse spelt, in an extraordinary French patois.
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Their language was a Spanish patois; their voices were sharp and disagreeable.
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Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.
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The new argot is just a different way of masking old anxieties.
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I forgot that you lived in a world unsullied by such argot.
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He played, drank, talked argot, and cast off every shred of reserve.
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Also now he employed some of the argot of the underworld:
Catalan
inclinació Usage of cant in English
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And what you've said doesn't sound like 'cant' to me, Red.
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I hope my talk doesn't sound to you like 'cant.'
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The deck canted over and Dunstan said, Bring her up a point!
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Larrazabal added: Cant believe they are going to keep playing in Madeira.
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There is too much religious cantinthestatementofMr.Thorburn.
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But lying and snivelling and canting and Hicksing always appear in masquerade.
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The main-mast canted to leeward, and was in imminent danger of falling.
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He had flown a tricky, wing-down approach, skidding along the canted terrain.
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I'd rather have that than the new Parisian narrowness-thecantofdecadence.
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This story is a pertinent example of the cantofDoingGood.
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You do not flatter any of the sects by using their cant.
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It stands on deck canted one side but is otherwise reasonably unscathed.
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The next day they issue an order that you cantwearem .
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But I cantsellmy nuciformsac whenyouvecutit out .
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On the other side of the door, she heard Heritas Cant wheezing.
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Cant flung out a wedge-shaped foot and jammed it into the rug.
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