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单词 slangy
释义
slangslang /slæŋ/ noun [uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • 'Doolally', meaning 'crazy', is 19th century soldiers' slang, and comes from the name of an Indian town.
  • "Baloney" is US slang for nonsense.
  • "Bladdered" is slang for "drunk".
  • "Shepherd" was a slang term for a spy.
  • I was totally confused by the slang that the other kids were using.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Anne: In cockney rhyming slang what is tomfoolery?
  • Have you not heard the slang term posh, Watson?
  • He kept a notebook full of characters' names, prospective titles and slang.
  • Once he started transmitting he couldn't help using all that C.B slang, even in an emergency.
  • The name, by the way, is Louisiana slang for one of its chief seafood products, crawfish.
  • Yet when I came to think about it, it was only the slang that I didn't quite understand.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a single group of letters that are used together with a particular meaning: · ‘Casa’ is the Italian word for ‘house’.· I looked up the word in a dictionary.
a word that you use for a particular thing, place, organization etc: · Iberia is the ancient name for the Spanish Peninsula.· What’s the name of that type of dog?
a word or group of words that is used in a specific subject or area of language: · The medical term for losing your hair is ‘alopecia’.· People use the term ‘carbon footprint’ to talk about man’s polluting effect on the environment.
a group of words that have a particular meaning when used together, or which someone uses on a particular occasion: · We don’t really have a phrase for ‘bon appétit’ in English.· Politicians keep using the phrase ‘family values’.· an Italian phrase book
a fixed phrase which is used in a language and has a particular meaning: · He uses a lot of obscure expressions that I don’t really understand.· What does the expression ‘wage slavery’ mean?
a word or group of words that people in a particular type of work or activity have started using a lot because they think it is important: · E-learning is the buzzword in educational publishing at the moment.· For anthropologists, ethnodiversity has been a buzzword for quite a while.
a group of words that has a special meaning which you cannot guess from the meanings of each separate word: · ‘Full of beans’ is an idiom which means feeling lively and energetic.
a group of words that is used so often that it seems rather boring, annoying, or silly: · It’s a bit of a cliché, but good communication skills are the key to success.· the old movie cliché ‘we can’t go on meeting like this’
very informal words used especially by a particular group of people such as young people, criminals, or soldiers: · Grass is slang for marijuana.· prison slang· army slang
words and phrases used in a particular profession or by a particular group of people, which are difficult for other people to understand – often used to show disapproval: · The instructions were full of technical jargon.· complicated legal jargon
different kinds of language
a form of a language that is spoken in one area of a country, with different words, grammar, or pronunciation from other areas: · Cantonese is only one of many Chinese dialects.· the local dialect
the way that someone pronounces words, because of where they were born or live, or their social class: · Karen has a strong New Jersey accent.· an upper class accent
very informal spoken language, used especially by people who belong to a particular group, for example young people or criminals: · Teenage slang changes all the time.· ‘Dosh’ is slang for ‘money’.
formal the technical words or expressions that are used in a particular subject: · musical terminology· Patients are often unfamiliar with medical terminology.
especially disapproving words and phrases used in a particular profession or subject and which are difficult for other people to understand: · The instructions were written in complicated technical jargon.· ‘Outsourcing’ is business jargon for sending work to people outside a company to do.· The letter was full of legal jargon.
Longman Language Activatorthe words used by the people in a particular country or area
a system of words, phrases, and grammar that is used by the people who live in a particular country: speak a language: · "What language do they speak in Brazil?" "Portuguese."· She can speak four different languages - French, German, English, and Dutch.foreign language: · Every pupil has to learn at least one foreign language.official language (=the language used by the government): · English is the island's official language, but people also speak French and Creole.speak the language (=be able to speak the language of the country you are in): · It's difficult living in a country where you don't speak the language.
informal a foreign language: speak/know the lingo: · Travelling in Spain is much easier if you can speak the lingo.learn/pick up the lingo: · He picked up the local lingo straight away.
a form of a language which is spoken by the people who live in one area of a country, and which has different words, grammar, or pronunciation from other forms of that language: · In this region, the dialect sounds a lot like German.· At home, they speak in dialect.Yorkshire/German/Cantonese etc dialect: · In some Yorkshire dialects, people say "spice" instead of "sweets" or "candy".dialect word: · "Nowt" is a northern dialect word meaning "nothing".dialect of: · He spoke a dialect of French that I found hard to understand.
very informal words used in a particular country or place: · I was totally confused by the slang that the other kids were using.slang for: · "Bladdered" is slang for "drunk".slang word/term/expression: · "Shepherd" was a slang term for a spy.US/British/Southern etc slang: · "Baloney" is US slang for nonsense.
language that is colloquial is only used in conversation, not in formal situations: · It's a useful little phrase book, full of colloquial expressions.· The best way of improving your colloquial English is by listening to native speakers.· You shouldn't use phrases like "sort of" in essays -- they're too colloquial.
the language used by a particular group of people
the kind of words used by people in a particular job or activity: legal/medical/business etc language: · Books about physics are usually written in highly technical language.· People often find the medical language used by doctors confusing.the language of something: · a fascinating article about the language of baseball
the special words that people working in science, medicine, the law etc use to describe things: · It is important that lawyers use the correct terminology when they prepare contracts.scientific/linguistic/computer etc terminology: · It was an interesting programme, which gave the facts without using too much scientific terminology.
words used by people who do a particular job or who are interested in a particular subject, which are difficult for ordinary people to understand: · When you first learn about computers, there is a whole lot of jargon to understand.management/legal/medical/computer jargon: · I hate all this management jargon about 'upskilling' and 'downsizing'.
informal words that are used by specific groups of people, for example soldiers or prisoners: army/soldiers'/prison etc slang: · 'Doolally', meaning 'crazy', is 19th century soldiers' slang, and comes from the name of an Indian town.
not using special, technical words that are hard to understand: · I want a book that will explain to me in layman's terms how my computer works.
: management/boardroom/PR etc -speak a type of language and the words used by managers etc - use this especially to talk about a way of speaking that you think is silly or unnecessarily different from normal language: · "What on earth does he mean, 'window'?" "Oh, that's management-speak for 'opportunity'."· Her email was so full of corporate-speak, you hardly realized that what she was saying was that we were all fired.
WORD SETS
acronym, nounadage, nounaffricate, nounagglutination, nounalphanumeric, adjectiveanglophone, nounantecedent, nounantonym, nounaphorism, nounarchaism, nounargot, nounaspirate, verbaspirate, nounaspiration, nounassonance, nounbaby talk, nounback, adjectiveback formation, nounbilabial, nounbody language, nouncant, nouncliché, nouncognate, adjectivecognate, nouncollocate, verbcollocation, nouncolloquial, adjectivecombining form, nouncompound, nounconcordance, nounconnotation, nounconsonant, nouncontext, nouncontraction, nouncorpus, noundative, noundeclarative, adjectivedecline, verbdecode, verbdescriptive, adjectivediction, noundiminutive, noundiminutive suffix, noundiphthong, nounelide, verbellipsis, nounelocution, nounemphasis, nounencode, verbenunciate, verb-ese, suffixetymology, nouneuphemism, nouneuphemistic, adjectiveexpression, nounfigurative, adjectivefirst language, nounformal, adjectivefricative, noungender, nounglide, nounglottal stop, nounhard, adjectivehieroglyphics, nounhigh-level, adjectivehomograph, nounhomonym, nounhomophone, nounhyperbole, nounideogram, nounidiolect, nounidiom, nounidiomatic, adjectiveinflection, nounintonation, nounIPA, nounironic, adjectivejargon, nounlabial, nounlanguage, nounlegalese, nounlexical, adjectivelexicography, nounlexicon, nounlexis, nounlingua franca, nounlinguist, nounlinguistic, adjectivelinguistics, nounlip-read, verbloanword, nounlocution, nounlong, adjectivemaxim, nounmetalanguage, nounmispronounce, verbmnemonic, nounmonosyllabic, adjectivemonosyllable, nounmorpheme, nounmorphology, nounnasal, adjectivenasal, nounneologism, nounneutral, adjectivenonce, adjectivenon-standard, adjectivenonverbal, adjectiveofficialese, nounonomatopoeia, nounopen vowel, nounorientalist, nounoxymoron, nounpalindrome, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounphilology, nounphoneme, nounphonemics, nounphonetic, adjectivephonetics, nounphonic, adjectivephonology, nounphrasal, adjectivephraseology, nounpidgin, nounplosive, nounpolyglot, adjectivepolysemous, adjectivepolysyllabic, adjectiveportmanteau word, nounpragmatics, nounpreliterate, adjectivepre-verbal, adjectiveprimary stress, nounpronounce, verbpronounceable, adjectivepronunciation, nounproverb, nounpsychobabble, nounReceived Pronunciation, nounrecitation, nounregister, nounretroflex, adjectiveRP, nounschwa, nounsecondary stress, nounsecond language, nounsemantic, adjectivesemantics, nounsemiotics, nounsemi-vowel, nounshort, adjectivesibilant, adjectivesibilant, nounsic, adverbsilent, adjectivesimile, nounslang, nounsound, verbspeech, nounspeech therapy, nounspell, verbspelling, nounspoonerism, nounstandard, adjectivestem, nounstop, nounstress, nounstress, verbstressed, adjectivestress mark, nounstructuralism, nounstylistics, nounsuperlative, nounsyllabic, adjectivesyllable, nounsynonym, nounsynonymous, adjectivetechnical, adjectiveterminology, nounthesaurus, nountone, nountone language, nountoneless, adjectivetongue, nountranscribe, verbtranscription, nountrope, noununpronounceable, adjectiveunstressed, adjectiveunvoiced, adjectiveusage, nounuse, verbuse, nounvelar, adjectivevocabulary, nounvoiceless, adjectivevowel, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· ‘The Old Bill’ is a slang term for the police.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I'd be doing rhyming slang if I didn't watch out.· I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time.
NOUN
· The slang term square might convey an impression which includes the suit, crew-cut and tie.· Have you not heard the slang term posh, Watson?
· Two hundred years ago it was their slang word for gourd.
VERB
· Anne: In cockney rhyming slang what is tomfoolery?
· There is nothing wrong with using slang.· These terms do not carry negative connotations; however, for convenience we will continue to use the popular term slang.· He somehow seemed familiar with the jokes that the young were making and used their slang.· Once he started transmitting he couldn't help using all that C.B slang, even in an emergency.
 very informal, sometimes offensive language that is used especially by people who belong to a particular group, such as young people or criminals:  schoolboy slangslang word/expression/term► see thesaurus at word—slangy adjective
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