colloquialism
/kəˈləʊkwɪəlɪz(ə)m
/noun
1A word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation: the colloquialisms of the streets...
- The natural evolution of language has integrated colloquialisms, or slang words, into everyday speech, but it has also magnified complexities associated with English grammar.
- Like all Indian dialects, my mother-tongue Konkani - an amalgam of coastal languages and regional colloquialisms - has its share of adages.
- After drugs, the most frequent references and most expressive colloquialisms in The Hippie Dictionary deal with sexual intercourse and sexual organs.
1.1 [mass noun] The use of colloquialisms: speech allows for colloquialism and slang...
- Charles Martin has conveyed something of Ovid's famous wit by giving free rein to his own, especially by translating wherever possible into contemporary colloquialism and slang.
- 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.
- But having said all of that, I would like to speak at least a few words in defense of colloquialism.
- awards ceremony
- award wage
- award-winning
- aware
- awareness
- awareness bracelet
- awari
- a (warning) shot across the bows
- awash
- a watched pot never boils
- away
- awayday
- away goal
- away message
- away (or off or out etc.) with
- away with
- away with the fairies
- AWB
- awbody
- AWD
- Awdry, Reverend W.
- awe
- aweary
- awed
- a week on ——