A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves):
— They don't speak our lingo.
synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular.
Roget 560:
language;
phraseology
etc.
569;
speech
etc.
582;
tongue,
lingo,
vernacular;
mother tongue,
vulgar tongue,
native tongue;
household words;
King's English,
Queen's English;
dialect
etc.
563.
confusion of tongues,
Babel,
pasigraphie†;
pantomime
etc.
(signs)
550;
onomatopoeia;
betacism†,
mimmation,
myatism†,
nunnation†;
pasigraphy†.
lexicology,
philology,
glossology†,
glottology†;
linguistics,
chrestomathy†;
paleology†,
paleography;
comparative grammar.
literature,
letters,
polite literature,
belles lettres [Fr.],
muses,
humanities,
literae humaniores [Lat.],
republic of letters,
dead languages,
classics;
genius of language;
scholarship
etc.
(scholar)
492.
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Roget 563:
neology,
neologism;
newfangled expression,
nonce expression;
back-formation;
caconym†;
barbarism.
archaism,
black letter,
monkish Latin.
corruption,
missaying†,
malapropism,
antiphrasis†.
pun,
paranomasia†,
play upon words;
word play
etc.
(wit)
842;
double-entendre [Fr.]
etc.
(ambiguity)
520;
palindrome,
paragram†,
anagram,
clinch;
abuse of language,
abuse of terms.
dialect,
brogue,
idiom,
accent,
patois;
provincialism,
regionalism,
localism;
broken English,
lingua franca;
Anglicism,
Briticism,
Gallicism,
Scotticism,
Hibernicism;
Americanism†;
Gypsy lingo,
Romany;
pidgin,
pidgin English,
pigeon English;
Volapuk,
Chinook,
Esperanto,
Hindustani,
kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin,
macaronics†,
gibberish;
confusion of tongues,
Babel;
babu English†,
chi-chi.
figure of speech
etc.
(metaphor)
521;
byword.
colloquialism,
informal speech,
informal language.
substandard language,
vernacular.
vulgar language,
obscene language,
obscenity,
vulgarity.
jargon,
technical terms,
technicality,
lingo,
slang,
cant,
argot;
St. Gile's Greek,
thieves' Latin,
peddler's French,
flash tongue,
Billingsgate,
Wall Street slang.
pseudology†.
pseudonym
etc.
(misnomer)
565;
Mr.
So-and-so;
wha d'ye call 'em†,
whatchacallim,
what's his name;
thingummy†,
thingumbob;
je ne sais quoi [Fr.].
neologist†,
coiner of words.
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is a specific kind of: non-standard speech.
is a broader term that covers: street name | rhyming slang.
domain member usage: bite | swiz | heist, rip-off | shakedown | power trip | ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup | blowjob, cock sucking | hand job, jacking off, jerking off, wank | dekko | square-bashing | shakedown | caff | deck | gat, rod | Mickey Finn | nick | dreck, schlock, shlock | cert | legs | soup-strainer, toothbrush | arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole | bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly, tummy | niff, pong | corker | hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash | skin flick | dibs | bun-fight, bunfight | burnup | nosh-up | hood | 'hood | poor white trash, white trash | honkey, honkie, honky, whitey | Injun, red man, Redskin | hymie, kike, sheeny, yid | Chinaman, chink | dago, ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop | Jap, Nip | spic, spick, spik | Boche, Hun, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead | airhead | bad egg | boffin | butch, dike, dyke | good egg | guvnor | old man | out-and-outer | schlockmeister, shlockmeister | squeeze | suit | tripper | wog | juice | big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile | key | skinful | juice | the shits, the trots | heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies | bitch | give | buy it, pip out | feel | hoof | chuck, ditch | bunk off, play hooky | square, straight | besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet | can-do | freaky | uncool | butch | grotty | some | mean | bolshy, stroppy | pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off | slam-bang | clean, plum, plumb | drop-dead | bennie, Benzedrine | cat, Caterpillar | cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff | baddie, villain ... show more.
derivation: slang | slangy.
Dutch: Bargoens, argot, boeventaal, dieventaal, groepstaal, jargon, koine, kringtaal, kunsttaal, omgangstaal, slang, spreektaal, vakjargon, vaktaal, volkstaal ... show more
Polish: żargon, argot, slang