单词 | slangism |
释义 | slangismn. A slang expression. [The following passage is the source of the adjective slangous given in some dictionaries: 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang > slang expression slangism1853 1853 Househ. Words Sept. 76/2 Frivolous little foreign slangisms hovering about fashionable cookery and fashionable furniture. 1866 E. Yates Kissing Rod I. i. 6 A ‘cool card’, a ‘long-headed chap’,..and..other complimentary slangisms. Derivatives ˈslangist n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang > one who uses flashmonger1825 slangsterc1830 slangist1885 rhyming slangster1948 rhyming slanger1977 1885 Harper's Mag. Dec. 83/1 She did not exactly say with the modern slangist, ‘That's rather an extensive order’. ˈslangster n. one who uses slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang > one who uses flashmonger1825 slangsterc1830 slangist1885 rhyming slangster1948 rhyming slanger1977 c1830 in Notes & Queries 1st Ser. I. 369 Gentlemen cadets wishing to achieve a notoriety as wits and slangsters. 1926 Variety 29 Dec. 5/4 Most slangsters use the exaggerated simile when breaking into print. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Nov. 781/4 Rhoda Broughton..would probably have thought Galsworthy far too much of a ‘slangster’. 1945 Gen 5 May 24/1 His [sc. Walter Winchell's] slangster column..in the New York Daily Mirror. 1965 Eng. Stud. 46 465 A slangster [is] a user of slang. ˈslanguage n. slangy speech; a form of slang (jocular). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang St. Giles's Greek1785 slum1812 slang1818 slanguage1879 1879 Harvard Lampoon 21 Nov. 88/1 (title) Slanguage on Angele. 1892 Leland in Chambers's Encycl. IX. 496 A congress ‘at which a language, or rather slanguage, was deliberately constructed and adopted’. 1899 Sport. Life 4 Sept. 5/3 In ‘slanguage’ current on the Turf and amongst the young bloods of the Stock Exchange. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Apr. 4/2 The ‘slanguage’ of a sporting reporter is a fearful and wonderful thing. 1926 Irish Statesman 18 Dec. 355/1 (heading) The American slanguage. 1926 Variety 29 Dec. 7/4 Every phase of our complex civilization, and every class have contributed something to what is fast becoming a national slanguage. 1927 Vanity Fair 29 67/2 Jack Conway..is conceded to be the ace ‘slanguage’ hurler in the world. 1935 Down Beat 1 Nov. 8. The slanguage of swing-terms that ‘cats’ use. 1958 Inside 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 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 29/3 As one who left school in July, I feel qualified to write of current oddities mentioned by ‘Old Squares’ (cubes in teenage slanguage). 1974 Trailer 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. ˈslangular adj. pertaining to slang (jocular). ΚΠ 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xi. 105 Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, [he] characterises them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as ‘a rummy start.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1830 |
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