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ˈslangism
[f. slang n.3 1.]
A slang expression. Also ˈslangist, ˈslangster, one who uses slang. ˈslanguage, slangy speech; a form of slang (jocular). ˈslangular a., pertaining to slang (jocular).[The following passage is the source of the adj. slangous given in some Dicts:—1823 J. Bee Dict. Turf p. vi, The irons were the slangs, and the slang-wearers' language was of course slangous, or partaking much, if not wholly, of the slangs.] 1853Household Words Sept. 76/2 Frivolous little foreign *slangisms hovering about fashionable cookery and fashionable furniture. 1866E. Yates Kissing Rod I. i. 6 A ‘cool card’, a ‘long-headed chap’,..and..other complimentary slangisms.
1885Harper's Mag. Dec. 83/1 She did not exactly say with the modern *slangist, ‘That's rather an extensive order’.
c1830in N. & Q. 1st Ser. I. 369 Gentlemen cadets wishing to achieve a notoriety as wits and *slangsters. 1926Variety 29 Dec. 5/4 Most slangsters use the exaggerated simile when breaking into print. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Nov. 781/4 Rhoda Broughton..would probably have thought Galsworthy far too much of a ‘slangster’. 1945Gen 5 May 24/1 His [sc. Walter Winchell's] slangster column..in the New York Daily Mirror. 1965English Studies XLVI. 465 A slangster [is] a user of slang.
1879Harvard Lampoon 21 Nov. 88/1 (title) *Slanguage on Angele. 1892Leland in Chambers's Encycl. IX. 496 A congress ‘at which a language, or rather slanguage, was deliberately constructed and adopted’. 1899Sport. Life 4 Sept. 5/3 In ‘slanguage’ current on the Turf and amongst the young bloods of the Stock Exchange. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 Apr. 4/2 The ‘slanguage’ of a sporting reporter is a fearful and wonderful thing. 1926Irish Statesman 18 Dec. 355/1 (heading) The American slanguage. 1926Variety 29 Dec. 7/4 Every phase of our complex civilization, and every class have contributed something to what is fast becoming a national slanguage. 1927Vanity Fair XXIX. 67/2 Jack Conway..is conceded to be the ace ‘slanguage’ hurler in the world. 1935[see cat n.1 2 c]. 1958Inside the ACD (Amer. College Dict.) Nov. 2/1 Max Shulman shows in Rally Round the Flag, Boys, a new novel, that he can capture and record living speech including the ‘slanguage’ of the current cool crop of hipsters. 1963[see cube, n.1 1 c]. 1974Trailer Life Nov. 92 Our slanguage is so offbeat that during World War II American military men were able to foil the enemy by resorting to American vernacular.
1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xi, Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, [he] characterises them (his strength lying in a *slangular direction) as ‘a rummy start’. |