A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
Common speech variety of a specific population, as opposed to standard, national, literary or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca.
Синонимы
Examples for "slang "
Examples for "slang "
1 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.
3 This represents, for an Englishman, a practically current adaptation of American slang .
4 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 .
1 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 .
4 The police jargon for this kind of thing was an asymmetrical situation.
5 Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon .
1 The deck canted over and Dunstan said, Bring her up a point!
2 Larrazabal added: Cant believe they are going to keep playing in Madeira.
3 There is too much religious cantinthestatementofMr.Thorburn.
4 But lying and snivelling and canting and Hicksing always appear in masquerade.
5 The main-mast canted to leeward, and was in imminent danger of falling.
1 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.
3 An hour in LA and she was already speaking the local lingo .
4 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.
1 Havenite patois will work fine, since they won't know the difference anyway.
2 I'm not even quite sure what patois is-somesort of meat paste?
3 Where fashion patois shines, however, is in the flamboyant expression of sensibility.
4 The letter is ill-written and worse spelt, in an extraordinary French patois .
5 Their language was a Spanish patois ; their voices were sharp and disagreeable.
1 Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.
2 The new argot is just a different way of masking old anxieties.
3 I forgot that you lived in a world unsullied by such argot .
4 He played, drank, talked argot , and cast off every shred of reserve.
5 Also now he employed some of the argot of the underworld:
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.
1 The vernacular in America, particularly in a business sense, is cautiously professional.
2 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:
4 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 .
6 There's something admittedly odd about watching photo-realistic-looking animals speak in everyday vernacular .
7 However, the vernacular performance of bemused seriousness translates oddly to the page.
8 As usual, however, in the East, it has no general vernacular name.
9 Following him, the vernacular translators take that word in the same sense.
10 He had, in the vernacular of the ring, been put to sleep.
11 This part of the verse is skipped over by the vernacular translators.
12 Your father would have said it was the vernacular of the rail-head.
13 The Synod of Oxford did not forbid the use of vernacular versions.
14 The modern vernacular for the successful squire of dames was then unknown.
15 These functions are known in the vernacular as spotting, locating, and trailing.
16 The profile deliberately reflects the gratifyingly bold simplicity of local vernacular barns.
Другие примеры для термина "vernacular"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Translations for vernacular
Vernacular в диалектах
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