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slang

Pronunciation

• enPR: slăng, IPA^(key): /slæŋ/
• (also) (US) enPR: slāng, IPA^(key): /sleɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

1756, origin unknown.

(The History of English Words through Time, an obscure book, provides this explanation.) slanted language, language that cannot stand straight, language that leans toward that which is improper, abbreviated to s.lang, a slang term for slang OR silly language

Noun

slang

1. Language outside of conventional usage.
2. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
3. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):

     "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang."

     "Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity.

     "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class."

     "There is correct English: that is not slang."

     "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

Synonyms

• (jargon): vernacular, jargon, lingo, dialect, cant

Translations

slang

• Arabic: عامية f (`aammíyya) (Eastern Arabic), دارجة f (daarija) (Western Arabic)
• Catalan: argot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俚語／俚语 (lǐyǔ), 俚语 (zh) (lǐyǔ), 行語／行语 (zh) (hángyǔ), 行语 (hángyǔ)

• Czech: slang m, hantýrka f
• Finnish: slangi (fi)
• French: argot (fr) m, langue verte (fr) f, jargon (fr) m
• German: Slang (de) m, Jargon (de) m, Umgangssprache (de) f
• Greek: αργκό (el) f (argkó)
• Hebrew: סלנג (he)
• Hungarian: szleng (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 俗語 (ja) (ぞくご, zokugo), 俚言 (りげん, rigen)
• Polish: slang (pl) m, żargon (pl) m, gwara (pl) f
• Portuguese: calão (pt) m, jargão (pt) m, gíria (pt) f
• Romanian: argou (ro) n, jargon (ro) n, slang n
• Russian: сленг (ru) m (sleng), жаргон (ru) m (žargón), арго (ru) n (argó), феня (ru) f (fénja) (in the criminal world), разговорная речь f (razgovórnaja reč')
• Scottish Gaelic: truaill-chainnt f
• Spanish: argot (es) m, jerga (es) f, germanía (es) f
• Swedish: slang (sv)
• Tagalog: salitang balbal, salitang kalye, salitang kanto
• Turkish: argo (tr)
• Vietnamese: tiếng lóng (vi)
• Volapük: lupöpapük

jargon — see jargon

cant — see cant

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Danish: slang (da) c
• (deprecated template usage) Dutch: Bargoens n, dialect n
• (deprecated template usage) Hebrew: סְלֶנְג (he) m (sleng)
• (deprecated template usage) Italian: gergo (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) Korean: 속어 [俗語] (sok-eo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Portuguese: gíria
• (deprecated template usage) Romanian: slang n
• (deprecated template usage) Spanish: argot (es) m, jerga (es) f
• (deprecated template usage) Serbo-Croatian: sleng m, žargon m, argo m
• (deprecated template usage) Telugu: Shabdham

Verb

slang

1. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
   • 1888, Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)

See also

• Category:English slang

punitize

1. to punish by law or official rule

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Zekaiseii

zitjinze

from Zekaisei zit not + jinze moving, swinging

Pronunciation

• pronunciation uncertain

Noun

1. refusal to change or give up one's opinion or way of life, stubbornness

   "Zitjinze etn vol zistafe."- The arrogant are of stubbornness (or obstinacy).

zalt

from Zekaisei zault flavor, from earlier zual spice, flavor, taste

Noun

1. flavor, how something tastes
2. the general feeling one experiences when performing a specified activity or interacting with a specified person