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41vernacular — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. tongue, dialect; argot, slang. See speech. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Indigenous] Syn. native, ingrained, inherent, domesticated; see native 2 , natural 1 . 2. [Informal] Syn. colloquial, vulgar,… …
42cant — n 1. mummery, empty talk, lip service, Archaic. snuffling, Inf. bull, Sl. bunk; hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimony. 2. jargon, terminology, shoptalk, Inf. lingo; argot, slang, patois, patter, vernacular; doublespeak, officialese, medicalese,… …
43language — n 1. speech, tongue, dialect, parlance, idiolect; vernacular, common speech, vulgate, vulgar tongue; mother tongue, native tongue, parent language, linguistic stock; slang, idiom, vulgarism, colloquialism, vernacularism, archaism; patois, pidgin …
44lingo — n Informal. argot, cant, jargon, parlance; slang, idiom, terminology, phraseology, vocabulary; patois, pidgin, pidgin English, trade language, lingua franca; vernacular, dialect, tongue, talk, speech, language, shoptalk; journalese, officialese,… …
45patois — n 1. regional or provincial speech, vernacular, vulgar tongue, peasant dialect, native or mother tongue; idiom, parlance, dialect, Inf. lingo, colloquial speech. 2. trade language, lingua franca, peddler s French, St. Giles Greek, pidgin, pidgin… …
46slang — n 1. lingo, colloquialism, vernacularism, vernacular, vocabulary; provincialism, regionalism, localism; vulgarism, barbarism; Americanism, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism; journalese, newspaperese, legalese, medicalese, officialese, collegese,… …
47terminology — n nomenclature, terms, language, vocabulary; wording, phrasing, phraseology, locution; jargon, Inf. lingo, argot, cant; bureaucratese, journalese, newspaperese, businessese, shoptalk, Washington ese, Pentagonese, officialese, newspeak,… …
48jargon — [n] specialized language; dialect abracadabra*, argot, balderdash*, banality, bombast, bunk*, buzzwords*, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, lexicon, lingo*,… …
49slang — [n] casual dialect argot, cant, colloquialism, informal speech, jargon, lingo, neologism, patois, patter, pidgin, shoptalk, slanguage* street talk, vernacular, vulgarism, vulgarity; concept 276 Ant. standard …
50slang — slang1 [slaŋ] n. [18th c. cant < ?] 1. Obs. the specialized vocabulary and idioms as of criminals and tramps, the purpose of which was to disguise from outsiders the meaning of what was said: now usually called CANT1 2. the specialized… …
