colloquial

How To Use colloquial In A Sentence

• He made our swimming mascot the 'ucker, which was supposed to be a colloquial way of saying "sucker," a trash fish, but was really so we could do our team cheer, "Be tough, be tough, be tough 'uckers" loudly in mixed company. Instead of Doing My Lesson Plan, I Idly Toondoo
• The obscurities of literary theory are mercifully avoided, frequently by such witty contemporary reference and colloquial language which bring Shakespeare into the world of today's reader.
• Although they have studied English for four years, one of the biggest problems they face when they come here is just getting used to our accents and our colloquialisms.
• I try to limit pop-culture references and colloquial clues to a handful within each puzzle and in general each clue is some form of a dictionary definition.
• The word "Knickerbocker", a Dutch surname, is used as a colloquial term for New Yorkers descended from the origin al Dutch settlers.
• In colloquial use, this affix may be appended to the inceptive copulas and to verbs as well, though this is considered uneducated.
• My phraseology was perhaps too colloquial and informal - I was trying to pay them a compliment for getting the story.
• (Interestingly, fava beans are widely known as a major trigger substance, leading to the oft-used colloquial name of favism for the disorder and the intriguing historical speculation that "favism has been known to exist since antiquity; the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was said to have warned his disciples against the dangers of eating fava beans.") Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of
• Except for Obi-Wan, the good guys in the Star Wars original trilogy all spoke colloquial American English, clitics and all.
• These people, known colloquially as bushmen, traditionally make their livings by hunting and gathering.