How To Use Slangy In A Sentence
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These two spoke in a slangy language which was virtually incomprehensible to anyone hearing it for the first time, though by repetition week by week a mental glossary could be constructed.
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Ms. Jen has an enduring fondness for slangy American talk, and the diction and cadences in "World and Town" are those of the country's woodsier corners.
Scenes From Provincial Life
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The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easilyjust the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house.
Various Parties converging on the Sea
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The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily — just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Bobby spoke the languid, slangy version of English that was developing in the islands ' yeasty cultural and linguistic stew.
EDEN BURNING
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The slangy term shewed the speaker's desire to get rid of his own feelings.
Delia Blanchflower
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Just as the English are apt to find our humour "slangy" and
My Discovery of England
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And so too many of our current irritating colloquialisms, sloppy pronunciations, errors of grammar, newfangled meanings, slangy expressions-these can end up being part of the repertoire of Standard English in the future.
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The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily -- just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Mr. Kinsella accordingly "rubbered," as his slangy nephew put it, and satisfied himself of the identity of Mr.. Huntington.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home
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The book, which comes in very large print with photos every two pages, travels back and forth in time in a slangy, stream-of-consciousness tone.
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Québecois French was more slangy and… ‘different’ from the ‘Standard French’ she learned, which was mostly the European French.
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See, a.fortis, now you've got me having to ask: what's the "slangy" meaning of "shorties?
The WritingYA Weblog: Shouts-Out--Because Who Doesn't Like a Shout-Out?
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To do that, there will be times when I'll need to understand slangy, off-color, and downright weird words -- all kinds -- if for no other reason than to understand what people around me are saying.
Ensename, por favor!
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Maybe the broadcasting experience honed her writers' voice - one that was chiding, enthusiastic, slangy, argumentative, and sometimes bossy.
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He at times almost verged on the slangy, which is, of course, quite correct and _de haut ton_, and he did not want to be taken for an old buffer, as were his contemporaries.
Roden's Corner
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At any rate, my defense of Barber's diction, if it needs one, is that not being graced or burdened with the role of authorized biographer, he may have felt authorized to employ unofficial, slangy locutions.
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Why does he use 'whole' and other slangy expressions?
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
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a slangy expression
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The play was full of slangy dialogue.
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Olivia has that irresistible Anglo-Aussie accent instead of the slangy, lowdown vernacular of the Hollywood girls of her era.
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There are several slangy / derogatory expressions in English that I really detest and would never use.
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Not that Tóibín's language is jarringly contemporary or slangy.
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slangy speech
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Female speech tends to be evaluated as more ‘correct’ or more ‘prestigious’, less slangy, etc.
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Rather, the writing spoofs the witty, slangy, often over-written dialogue of movies and radio broadcasts of the time.
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I'm sorry to be slangy, but this automatic writing must have started from somewhere.
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So the slangy expressions ‘to have a thing about’ or ‘the thing is’ etc. actually hark back to this interesting history.
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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
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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
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Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence.
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His hosts are dumbstruck when their language is used against them with such slangy glee.
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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
