How To Use Slang In A Sentence

The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention. Shovel-Ready Shibboleths
His frequent use of slang threw the students into mental confusion.
Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang. The Sun
Doubtless many have written in to point this out, but "nork" is in Australia a slang term for the female breast (as in "nice norks"). The Corner
“Aussie slang: drongo – a stupid, inept, awkward or embarrassing person, a dimwit or slow-witted person” A Dumbass By Any Other Name | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!

Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
By the way, if you're wondering about the British-ism in the first sentence, "skint" is slang for "broke," as in: got no money. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
She often used the term pedal or pedalo-French slang for a homosexual-draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval. Jezebel
In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser. On a child's view of English
While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose. Slashdot: Book Reviews
So long as the public will pay for gross personalities, obscenity, and slang, decent journals will be outbidden in the market. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
The humble pollack, which is close to a slang word for testicles, will be sold by Sainsbury's as "colin" - pronounced "co-lan," and French for the closely related hake - with packaging inspired by artist Jackson Pollock. Undefined
It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore [41]; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God. Les Misérables
But I see from the list there's no mention of the gay slang language of Polari?
Lastly, and this is the last time I say this about the Hitler thing: The reason you may NOT compare people you simply do not like to the most evil person of the last century, Adolph Hitler, is the same reason we should not have "senior slaves" in high school or say that someone got "lynched" in slang. Pepper And His Puppet Korte Stay At It
Each mouse Razer Boomslang CE have an unique number and its own collector card.
What is the slang meaning of the French word "poilu"? June 2007
He added that while the majority of snakes in our area are non-venomous, the ones people should worry about are the boomslangs, puffadders and night adders.
Tea, you must know, is styled ` plew 'on board, in the slang of the training-ship; possibly, through some association with the ` sky blue' known in the boarding-schools of shore folk. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
I am not being drawn into a slanging match with the defenders of horse-drawn landaus on Blackpool Prom.
All those obscenities and repeated slang phrases may be authentic but they tend to impoverish the language of his books.
Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Latin American, especially a Mexican.
In some circles insert joke here –Ed., the slang terms “frot” and “scissoring” are used, respectively, to describe the male-homo and female-homo variants of the more general term frottage. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Four Days That Shook DADT”
At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in an impenetrable mix of street slang and patois.
A plausible explanation may be that, when - oo occurs as a slang suffix rather than an infix (as in superoo for super or smasheroo for smash (er)), the primary stress of the word shifts from the first syllable to the last. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
In this meaning it was originally US slang, I believe, taken up and rapidly naturalised in Britain only after World War Two.
the currency of a slang term
‘Sloan,’ used as a noun, should be poised to enter the vernacular as slang for ‘many things to many people.’
The Saxon _few_ may have caught enough from its French cousin _peu_ to claim the benefit of the same doubt as to sound; and our slang phrase _a few_ (as 'I licked him a few') may well appeal to _un peu_ for sense and authority. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
The term "muchacho" is slang for drug runner, according to the affidavit. SplicedFeed
While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (` a marshy place ') as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as "a privy as distinguished from a water-closet. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
Is the adjective skeevy somehow related to the slang noun for underwear, skivvies? The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
(Illume is a slang term used for illumination mortar rounds that are used by both sides to turn the night into daytime.) It was quiet again until another illume went up and there was more shooting. ‘You Can’t Feel Sorry for Yourself’
They have language peppered with slang that has a lot to do with the 20th century. Times, Sunday Times
Using the visual, audio, kinetic and print forms, her new lingo reads like a wild blend of Chaucer, SMS-speak and Anthony Burgess's droog slang. This week's new exhibitions
Reminds me of the early 90s, when a lot of people became confused about the difference between a methedrine product with the slang name of cat and the herb chewed in Somalia called kat. Matthew Yglesias » The Drug-Cougar Connection
The kid who knew and used the latest slang word was definitely a higher grade than the kid who hadn't used it.
Note that the relatively high transmission rates among MSMs of both Hep-B and HHV-8 are known to be associated with a very specific sexual practice — namely, anilingus (“rimming,” in slang). The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus
I've been trying to think of a slang term for garbage overproducer, but not much comes immediately to mind.
It was appropriately called Our Friends Social Club, “Our Friends” being slang for “goodfellas,” a term associated only with “made” guys in the life. This Family of Mine
Many words in English have obscure origins, particularly those which may be said to have risen in the world from lowly origins in argot, cant or slang.
The American slang sounded odd coming from the Eton-educated Swiss aristocrat. REMEMBER SUMMER
And to honey badgers, cobras and large-eyed tree snakes called boomslangs, the nest is a dependable larder.
In this connection I desire to make a statement which may come as a surprise to many, and that is this: I have but lately -- within the past few days, in fact -- been informed that among persons addicted to the vice of slang the term nut is occasionally applied to other persons whom they suspect of being mentally incapable or, in short, deranged. Fibble, D.D.
` little, small 'and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage ` commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf ` banker, money-lender, 'a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
‘To be honest I don't want to get into political slanging about it - it's not where I'm at, but it was quite damaging,’ she says.
Now I fully understand why merchant banker is used as rhyming slang! The Sun
Why does he use 'whole' and other slangy expressions? Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
I do have trouble with French movies, especially when it starts, then gradually I get it ... slang is also challenging but slang is challenging in English too. L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
` men's barber, 'pause café ` coffee break,' the slang arrêt pipi ` rest stop, 'et al. One even hears (and reads) nowadays such innovations as trajet-bureau ` office distance,' i.e. ` travel time from office to home. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
Let me suggest the Hebrew word kavash as a possible origin of the slang word kibosh. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
There is not a quip nor a quillet from the slangy pen of the daily newspaper writers that she does not brood over and worry about as heartily as if it were an overdue mortgage on her pianoforte. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
Hartman had told me to be on the lookout for the southeastern turtle name cooter, with the slang meaning ` pudendum. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4
Hopefully “eco-bling” becomes a staple in slanguage and does experience a one-hit wonder word moment. Blog – syllable studio
Doug was given the nick name Abo (in those days a slang term used for an Aborigine). Doug Nix
The term ‘bling’ - the new slang coinage for the flash of all those carats - has even (for better or for worse) passed into the language.
His hosts are dumbstruck when their language is used against them with such slangy glee.
Where I come from, ‘trots’ has always been slang for diarrhea, i.e. ‘I had a terrible case of the trots this morning after all those pints last night.’
We would run through the text looking for Australian spelling, any Australian slang and sayings, and other ‘Australianisms’ including Australian-specific metaphors or similes.
According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett. Which club started the most managers on the road to football success?
After decades of rejection as a symbol of outdated patriotism, the poilu (French slang for infantryman) has become a cultural icon in recent years, celebrated in films like "Joyeux Noel" (2005) and in books like "Lettres des Poilus," which has sold more than 300,000 copies since publication in 1998. Collectors Vie For World War I Memorabilia
It's hard enough for me to understand English with all these slang words kids are trying to add to it.
Modesty prevented Rutenberg (whom Bush also slanged as "Mr. Birthday Boy") from revealing his integral part in this merriment when he duly wrote up the press conference for the Times the next day. The Simple Life: White House Edition
Drawing on Ian Hacking's work, Haslanger has referred to this as "discursive" construction: Feminist Metaphysics
Instead, slang and universal loanwords are used, a so-called ‘globespeak.’
Or, as Slattery put it: "We make gak, which is a total slang term that basically means digital stuff going on" - i.e. Chicagotribune.com - News
As a patois , or colloquial , slang is permeated with rich local color and flavor.
Art history is spiced with constant slanging matches. Times, Sunday Times
The slang term vint for 'hard drive' is apparently from Winchester, "the name of one of the first popular hard disk drive technologies developed by IBM in 1973. Languagehat.com: EVERYTHING BUT THE MOUSE.
It is rhyming slang for 'hench' — a word that signifies an approval of something. The Sun
These are typical of the made-up and slang terms :? Times, Sunday Times
With the friendly slang to match. Times, Sunday Times
Slang is almost by definition undefinable, deliberately outside the dictionary.
We found that respondents disagreed about the specific meaning of even the most common slang terms.
Also, some slang terms mean different things in different places. Taking Drugs Seriously
It also results in the legitimate public use of words that in other contexts are regarded as slang.
In gang slang, the word "peanut" is used to derisively describe a rival gang member. ABC News: Top Stories
Normally I hated using abbreviations like “2nite,” but the slang increased my typing speed. Chocolate & Vicodin
It is also used as a slang/familiar word for a bedroom that looks more like a junk room where everything is on top of each other - also used for a miserable bedsit, a small, uncomfortable & untidy house. Stagiaire - French Word-A-Day
There j'ai fait la connaissance de la mere de Kousma [Footnote: A jocular translation into French of a Russian slang byword "Kousma's Mother," popularly used to indicate a difficult plight. Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood
I had started wearing flannel overshirts and even adopted some Newfoundland slang.
First, a caveat - Ebonics, or ‘Black English’ is not the same thing as Hip Hop Slang.
Now "dope" is not a slang word, as you may be thinking, gentle reader. In Times Like These
Such as: poz, short for positive, and zek, slang for prisoner. The Sun
A word attributed to Wuywurung is the Australian slang term yabber 'talk,' which is probably from Wuywurung yaba 'speak'; another possibility is mia-mia, a synonym for gunyah 'a temporary shelter of the Aborigines, usu. a simple frame of branches covered with bark, leaves, or grass,' about which you can read in exhaustive detail here:In the Australian National Dictionary 1988 we are told that it comes from Wathawurung and Wuywurung. Languagehat.com: JINDYWOROBAK.
It's too bad the MPAA is so politically correct it's afraid of the word "dicks"- slang for detectives used for over 60 years. Is ‘Cop Out’ The Title of Kevin Smith’s Newest Film? Also, a New Inception trailer for Christmas? | /Film
( 'pape' is Glasgow slang for a Catholic and/or the Pope). Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover
The politicians started a slanging match in the middle of the debate.
These people could relax and give themselves up to enjoyment because they were "heeled" -- as a boy lieutenant slangily put it -- to Poor Man's Rock
Crumb, or crum, in case you didnt know, is slang for penis and also, in some circles, slang for whats left of a womans cake after shes already given a slice to someone else. Let Me Eat Cake
In the first place, Slang is universal, whilst Cant is restricted in usage to certain classes of the community: thieves, vagrom men, and -- well, their associates. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
You'll just have to practise like billy-ho!" said Betty Brierley, who was addicted to slang. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals
Even slanguage is malleable, as “bling” has now been molded into the new word “eco-bling” (the more specific piece of slanguage that my fellow blogger wanted me to address). Blog – syllable studio
The traditional slanging over cannibalism pales in comparison.
That was a slang name for the blackbird -- calling birds, colly birds. CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009
All groups have their own slang, a language that shows the speaker is part of the tribe. Times, Sunday Times
There is already among the British soldiers an immense vocabulary of slang or colloquialisms, driblets of which reach us now and then.
Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche. Les Miserables
For instance, the Latin word testa once meant a pot, and became slang for "head," something like the word "noggin" in English. The Daily News - News
Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence.
Ah, Bel-ustegui is as bad as El -ato, he feels his own weird obligation to carry on in German submariner slang, it is just precisamente a seagoing Tower of Babel here-the torpedo? why is he screaming about the torpedo? Gravity's Rainbow
Rhyming slang was part of the general patter of traders and others, used as much for amusement as for secret communication.
In his autobiography, King mentioned that when he "chivved" someone (interesting that the slang hasn't changed), he was always careful to draw the blade downwards across the face, never upwards or sideways, so as not to slash a major artery. A Night With Annie Nightingale; Mary Anne's Send Off Show; Bandits of the Blitz; Jamie Cullum
That is why the debate over abortion is more often a slanging match than a dialogue.
All groups have their own slang, a language that shows the speaker is part of the tribe. Times, Sunday Times
[2] A slang epigram puts it better: The time, the place, and the girl. The Foundations of Personality
His pamphlet, "Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public," quickly crossed the Atlantic and become so popular here that "banting" became slang for dieting, Granberg says. 150 years of dieting fads and still no quick fix
It must be confessed, however, that the field of English slang verse and canting song, though not altogether barren, has yet small claim to the idiomatic and plastic treatment that obtains in many an _Argot - song_ and _Germania-romance; _ in truth, with a few notable exceptions, there is little in the present collection that can claim literary rank. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood, punk.
She would have "slanged" the Emperor himself with the self-same coolness, and the Army had given her a passport of immunity so wide that it would have fared ill with anyone who had ever attempted to bring the vivandiere to book for her uttermost mischief. Under Two Flags
I chuck in slang, which people have to Google. The Sun
Author Adam Jacot de Boinod spent two years scouring old dictionaries, dialect books and slang glossaries from across the world to amass the collection. Home
These nicknames of affection or derision, from the French slang soubriquet, “a chuck under the chin,” enlivened the political language of a previous era. No Uncertain Terms
Woody Allen says he loves London's famous gray and dreary weather and its residents' ever-expressive slang.
I've been told that this is the origin of the video-gaming slang term "frag" for an in-game kill -- it was originally Vietnam-era military slang for killing your officer to keep him from getting the rest of you killed, from "fragmentation grenade", a popular means of doing so. Sir! no sir!
- (familiar/slang) prendre une cuite/se cuiter = to get plastered/pissed .... The French word for plastered drunk... - French Word-A-Day
The term is obviously derived from Twinkie, but the association with a sugary snack is not obvious -- I surmise that the usage may come from gay slang, in which a "twinkie" is a cute young man with an older lover. Boing Boing: November 16, 2003 - November 22, 2003 Archives
There's a lot of slang in this passage.
The chief use of slang is to show you're one of the gang. Times, Sunday Times
In the pages of VERBATIM have appeared comments on acronyms: the word acronymania appears in "Prep School Slanguage," by Richard Lederer VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2
She had to ask around to find out that 'the Andrew' was naval slang for the Royal Navy, just as 'the oggin' or Bottled Spider
I thought it was some new street slang that I wasn't yet hip to.
I have flaunted these truisms before you in order to exorcise that modern slang of yours which is more false than the overstrained forms of a feudal France. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Equally, the fine acting of his co-stars, Ruth Wilson in the title role, and David Hayman as her father, a Swedish sailor straight from central casting, makes the old-fashioned slang and loquacity of the dialogue much more sympathetic than it appears on the page. Law Conquers Sea, Stage and Hearts
language and slang is hard to define.
Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house -- a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day " drummers.
It was a slanging match with his wife and his manager. Times, Sunday Times
Then again, these are CGC-graded artifacts, probably never to be read:Comics graded by CGC are placed in an inner well (a sealed Barex sleeve, similar to Mylar), then sonically sealed in a hard plastic, tamper-evident holder (the process is often referred in slang as "slabbing") with a label at the top indicating the grade, page quality and any notes. . . NIGHT NURSE auction update
Hundreds of futurists, supposedly right up there on the cutting edge of everything, laughed at a word that is so ancient it made its way to that hotbed of street slang, the House of Commons, three years ago.
Sure, there were some differences due to regional slang and accents.
As an internet slang user and English Language student, any text- or netspeak we've been given to study has been--perhaps understandably--hopelessly out of date. On txtng
British, and the term wanker is meaningless british slang. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Kung biet, toi dinky dau ," Harry said, reverting to Vietnamese slang. VAPOR TRAIL
A dobber is Australian slang for a snitch, and a cobber means a friend.
-- When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says un reguise. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
`skint' is a British slang term
Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterizes them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as “a rummy start.” Bleak House
Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg-plaiter. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
This slang expression was reportedly derived from Canadian Tire trademarks.
And who among us would call someone a silly berk if they knew that the word originates from rhyming slang ‘Berkshire Hunt’?
Let critic folk the poet's use of vulgar slang upbraid, Songs and Other Verse
Which is why, minutes into the cordial opening scene of this play, it is clear proceedings will end in a slanging match. The Sun
The class action lawsuit filed on July 29 defined the term "wigger" as "a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates the mannerisms, language and fashions associated with African-American culture. ABC News: Top Stories
To eliminate or locate colloquial words there are dictionaries of slang.
He only offers that ‘dogs’ are US slang for feet, which doesn't help much as this is clearly a cockneyism.
Y'all wannabees [want-to-bes, i.e., those also aspiring to appear as ignorant gadflies] need a bith slap [I'll get back to you on this one, after some checking. . . apparently a slap from a "bith" possibly a slang term for a female dog with a lisp, but don't quote me on that] ...so here it comes. Since Too Many City Hall Spinsters Are Only Talking About Me, Here Are Some Things To Discuss Instead
The entire film is told in a surreal and dreamily clipped dialog of imaginably fashionable faux-period slang and bizarre outcries of passion.
Tremblay, of course, is the most Québécois of Québécois playwrights, the man who first introduced the Quebec slang joual to the stage - despite the disdain of some critics - with the first production of his The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
FOR about as long as there has been money there have been slang terms for our notes and coins. The Sun
It was a slanging match with his wife and his manager. Times, Sunday Times
Unusually late summer rains had allowed them to outlast the boomslang, and on their ninth try, one chick lived long enough to fledge.
After consulting Webster's Dictionary, I discovered that "sweatshop" is in fact part of standard English, and not slang. Boing Boing: February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001 Archives
It is nice that the Minister finished up with a big thank you to the select committee after that slanging he gave us during his speech.
(The name kwaito comes from either the word kwai, which is Afrikaans slang for "hot," or a gang in Soweto called the AmaKwaitos. Kwaito Blows Up
One Hiram Codd did 'invent' a cold refreshing drink which it is claimed was called codswallop and since the Cockney slang for a glass of beer is a glass of wallop, maybe this is its etymological origin. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The idea of a Slang dictionary is in many ways counterintuitive - or, one might say, a bit bonkers. TIME.com: Top Stories
All their songs were full of slang phrases and raps.
Cafes lining the ice-blue water are busy with fishermen knocking back treacly shots of espresso, chattering away in Roman slang, the air scented with freshly roasting porchetta. Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea
Written in the slang of a middle-class teenager from Sao Paulo, it is part diary, part blog and even offers how-to tips for readers looking to spice up their sex lives.
I always liked the British slang "gobsmacked" -- it sounds a little violent, but sometimes you do just feel smacked by whatever's happening around you, you know? Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Stunned
There were other snakes in his collection; mambas, vipers, adders, boomslangs, vine snakes, sand snakes, pythons and other cobra species.
The mode of opening one of her chapters, "I always bone my meat" (_bone_ being the slang word of the day for steal), occasioned much merriment among her friends, and such a look of ludicrous surprise and reprobation from Liston, when he read it, as I still remember. Records of a Girlhood
'The nick' is a slang term for 'prison'.
I was called a teatrero Spanish slang for play-acting but what amazed me the most is that people simply forgot the fact that Pepe came all studs up against me, Alves says. Barcelona's Dani Alves on cheat allegations and the final against United
Maybe she wasn't so much iron as 'hangry' - modern slang for a ravenous rage. Times, Sunday Times
And that night, coming out of the cannery, he was interviewed by his fellow workmen, who were very angry and incoherently slangy. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
Honda originally intended to name the car Fitta, but did not take a liking to the word's meaning in some languages - in Swedish and Norwegian, "fitta" or "fitte" is a rather crude slang term for female genitalia - resulting in a last-minute change. 13 Unfortunate Translations That Harmed Brand Reputations
That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
An owl flying over them locks in the message: The word owl búho was slang for prostitute. NYT > Home Page
Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang. The Sun
Both galah and drongo are apparently types of birds, but also slang for idiot. CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2008
Imagine Logan's glee that day when he received a hundred emails with every dirty slang word I could think of.
If she stumbled over our Australian slang, we either cut it or rewrote it.
Whilst I had CHECKED my act for cultural references that wouldn't work, I had assumed wrongly that the crowd would be fluent English speakers and made no concessions for slang or colloquialism.
Cockneys traditionally speak in a rhyming slang which supposedly originated among barrow boys who didn't want their customers to understand what they said to each other.
Definitions of "Jack" include: boots; a diminutive of John used contemptuously to mean a saucy fellow; a footboy who pulls off his master's boots; a scream; a male; American slang for a stranger; American slang for a jackass; a cunning fellow who can do anything - such as a "Jack of all trades. Portrait of a Killer
Avoid what are called bookish, inkhorn, terms; shun words that have passed out of use, and those that have no footing in the language -- foreign words, words newly coined, and slang. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
In the following paragraphs, I have drawn freely from materials in Sornig's book -- but for my own purposes in this article: the book itself uses the examples to illustrate a variety of sources of slang in accordance with the author's analysis of the "nether" reaches of the language, an analysis I shall only touch on here and there. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
But the jokes, slang and heavy irony that make up the established banter of the building trade could be heading for extinction.
Losing the state elections of Hesse in February 1999, frequent slanging between members and finally the resignation of Lafontaine in March 1999 certainly made the future of the government look grim.
Twentieth-century attitudes and sensibilities as well as contemporary slang pervade the lyrics, and ironic allusions to modern life are scattered throughout the political depiction of the events. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
In one of their tiffs, the painter Marcello calls his vampy, gold-digging girlfriend Musetta a "chav" -- British slang for people with more money than brains and a taste for tacky bling. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
People addressed each other using their first names and used slang. Times, Sunday Times
Among the relatively new slang words: stella, "good-looking female," from stellar, "starlike, " improbably influenced by the shouted name of Stanley Kowalski's wife in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire." A synonym is shorty or shawty, imported from vintage hip-hop for "girlfriend of any height." Such attractiveness is the opposite of the fast-fading butterface ("Great body, but her face .... "), and a less-than-good-looking male or female is a blockamore, who "only looks good from a block or more. Old NY Times Writers Trying To Understand How “The Kids” Talk Is, Like, Totes Adorkable | Best Week Ever
With the friendly slang to match. Times, Sunday Times
In that sense, both childlike speech and slangy expression operate for Wallace as kin of free indirect discourse, here disguising as prose the speech or internal monologue of the author himself, rather than that of a character's. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
So the slangy expressions ‘to have a thing about’ or ‘the thing is’ etc. actually hark back to this interesting history.
In the beginning of his pamphlet, Harington contends that the slang jakes refers to the Greek Captain Ajax, who upon his suicide morphed into grass. Flushed
When I was in high school class of '98, I remember most Avenues members being light-skinned Chicano types, none of which spoke an ounce of Spanish, save for Chicano slang like "vato" and "barrio. Local "Ethnic Cleansing" Verdict: GUILTY
Cajun French, for the most part, is a spoken, unwritten language filled with colloquialisms and slang.
I'm sorry to be slangy, but this automatic writing must have started from somewhere.
When he died he left her nothing but the boy Tom, a precocious urchin, inheriting some of his father's sporting propensities, with a certain slang smartness of tone and manner, acquired in those circles where horseflesh is affected as an inducement to speculation. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
One journalist jokingly asked whether it would be translated into tsotsi taal (gangster slang). ANC Daily News Briefing
Rather, the writing spoofs the witty, slangy, often over-written dialogue of movies and radio broadcasts of the time.
There's also an amusing glossary of rapslang, which translates the likes of "move to me blud and ya click get shank" into gentlemanly English. Doc Brown
In it occurs this sentence: "The college girl is grammatical in speech, but she has the jolliest, chummiest jargon of slang that ever rolled from under a pink tongue. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
Does this also relate to the book's made-up slang ( "mim" for crime victim, "monkey" for crack), and its suppression of topical detail in general? Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk

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