vernacular as a noun: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
vernacular
noun
1 vernacular
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang.
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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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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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
2 vernacular
The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language).
Dutch: landstaal, volksmond, koine, omgangstaal, spreektaal, volkstaal
adjective
1 vernacular
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language:
— A vernacular term.
— Vernacular speakers.
synonyms: common, vulgar.
Roget 188:
indigenous;
native,
natal;
autochthonal†,
autochthonous;
British;
English;
American†;
Canadian,
Irish,
Scotch,
Scottish,
Welsh;
domestic;
domiciliated†,
domiciled;
naturalized,
vernacular,
domesticated;
domiciliary.
in the occupation of;
garrisoned by,
occupied by.
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Roget 613:
habitual;
accustomary†;
prescriptive,
accustomed
etc.
v.;
of daily occurrence,
of everyday occurrence;
consuetudinary†;
wonted,
usual,
general,
ordinary,
common,
frequent,
everyday,
household,
garden variety,
jog,
trot;
well-trodden,
well-known;
familiar,
vernacular,
trite,
commonplace,
conventional,
regular,
set,
stock,
established,
stereotyped;
prevailing,
prevalent;
current,
received,
acknowledged,
recognized,
accredited;
of course,
admitted,
understood.
conformable.
etc.
82;
according to use,
according to custom,
according to routine;
in vogue,
in fashion,
in,
with it;
fashionable
etc.
(genteel)
852.
wont;
used to,
given to,
addicted to,
attuned to,
habituated
etc.
v.;
in the habit of;
habitue;
at home in
etc.
(skillful)
698;
seasoned;
imbued with;
devoted to,
wedded to.
hackneyed,
fixed,
rooted,
deep-rooted,
ingrafted†,
permanent,
inveterate,
besetting;
naturalized;
ingrained
etc.
(intrinsic)
5.
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Roget 221:
interior,
internal;
inner,
inside,
inward,
intraregarding†;
inmost,
innermost;
deep seated,
gut;
intestine,
intestinal;
inland;
subcutaneous;
abdominal,
coeliac,
endomorphic [Physio.];
interstitial
etc.
(interjacent)
228†;
inwrought
etc.
(intrinsic)
5;
inclosed
etc.
v..
home,
domestic,
indoor,
intramural,
vernacular;
endemic.
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Roget 560:
lingual,
linguistic;
dialectic;
vernacular,
current;
bilingual;
diglot†,
hexaglot†,
polyglot;
literary.
Moby thesaurus: Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech, colloquial usage, colloquialism, common, common speech, commonplace, confined, conventional, conversational, conversationalism, current, customary, dead language, directness, easy, endemic, everyday, familiar, frankness, general, geographically limited, gibberish, gobbledygook, habitual, high-camp, homebred, homegrown, homely, homespun, household, household words, idiom, illiterate speech, indigenous, informal, informal English, informal language, informal speech, insular, jargon, kitschy, language, leanness, limited, lingo, living language, local, localized, low-camp, matter-of-factness, mother tongue, mumbo jumbo, natal, native, native language, native speech, native tongue, native-born, naturalness, nonstandard, normative, of a place, openness, ordinary, original, parent language, parochial, patois, patter, phraseology, plain, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plebeian, pop, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, primitive, prosaicness, prosiness, provincial, public, regional, regular, regulation, restrainedness, rustic style, scatology, severity, simple, simpleness, simplicity, slang, soberness, spareness, speech, spoken, spoken language, standard, starkness, stock, straightforward, straightforwardness, substandard, substandard language, taboo language, talk, topical, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, uneducated, unimaginativeness, universal, unliterary, unpoeticalness, unstudied, usual, vernacularism, vocabulary, vulgar, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgate, wonted ... show more.
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