See also: Slang and släng

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • enPR: slăng, IPA(key): /slæŋ/
  • (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) enPR: slăng, IPA(key): /sleɪŋ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋ, -eɪŋ

Etymology 1Edit

1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, related to Norwegian Nynorsk slengenamn (nickname), slengja kjeften (to abuse verbally, literally to sling one's jaw), related to Icelandic slengja (to sling, throw, hurl), Old Norse slyngva (to sling). Not believed to be connected with language or lingo.

NounEdit

slang (countable and uncountable, plural slangs)

  1. Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
      She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes called slang.
    • 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v:
      English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair with slang.
  2. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
  3. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.
    • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Middlemarch [], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 172:
      "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."
  4. (countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
  5. (countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
  6. (India) A curse word.
    • 2021, Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das, Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City (page 82)
      Such attempts were made even more aggressive by the fact that these local women were known for picking fights easily and using slangs to verbally abuse their neighbours.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Estonian: släng
  • German: Slang
  • Dutch: slang
  • Hebrew: סְלֶנְג(sleng)
  • Hungarian: szleng
  • Finnish: slangi
  • Indonesian: slank
  • Polish: slang
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit

slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)

  1. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2007, p. 26,
      Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 130]:
      Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World [], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "If they had been a row of his favorite Pressmen he could not have slanged them worse."
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

slang

  1. (archaic) simple past tense of sling
    • 1836, Edward Bagnall, Saul and David:
      Before he slang the all-deciding stone []

Etymology 3Edit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

slang (plural slangs)

  1. (UK, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
    • 1610, William Camden, Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, [], London: [] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC:
      There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.

Etymology 4Edit

Compare sling.

NounEdit

slang (plural slangs)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) A counterfeit weight or measure.
  3. (UK, obsolete, slang) A travelling show, or one of its performances.
  4. (UK, obsolete, slang) A hawker's license.
  5. (UK, obsolete, slang) A watchchain.

Further readingEdit

Etymology 5Edit

The same as sling which is also used in this sense. The vowel exhibits the lowering of /ɪ/ before /ŋ/ distinguishing for African American Vernacular English, as in thang for thing, but the word has spread with this pronunciation outside the accents that exhibit this feature.

VerbEdit

slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)

  1. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, MLE) To sell (especially illegal drugs).
    • 2014, Cdai (lyrics), “Bail Out”, performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai:
      Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop
      Just another fuckin day in that gangway slangin rocks
    • 2016, TG Millian (lyrics), “Call Me A Spartan”, performed by Harlem Spartans (Blanco, Zico, Bis, TG Millian, MizorMac):
      Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food)
      Cookin up grub
      Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh)
      Slang the crack or the black
      Put the light and dark on the move
      Gold and brown and cute
      Gyal love me and I love them too (too)
    • 2017, Digga D (lyrics), “Next Up?”, performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):
      Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling
      They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
      Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
      I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
    • 2019 October 18, “Feed' Em”‎[1], performed by #SG Jibbzy, 1:17–1:23:
      Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cook
      He is whipping shit that we use to slang
      This fat prick wanna chat on YouTube
      still had to cheat to deny he’s gang
    Synonyms: sling, flog

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch slang (snake, serpent), from Middle Dutch slange (snake, serpent), from Old Dutch slango (snake, serpent), from Proto-Germanic *slangô (snake, serpent).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang (plural slange)

  1. snake; serpent
    • 1983, E. P. Groenewald et al. (translators), Bybel, Genesis 3:2:
      Die vrou het die slang geantwoord: “Ons mag eet van die vrugte van die bome in die tuin.
      The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.

Related termsEdit

CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English slang. A false friend.

NounEdit

slang

  1. (colloquial, informal) twang, foreign accent

AdjectiveEdit

slang

  1. (colloquial, informal) (usually of English speakers) Having a regional or foreign accent.

CzechEdit

 
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NounEdit

slang m

  1. slang

DanishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English slang.

NounEdit

slang c (singular definite slangen or slanget, not used in plural form)

  1. Language outside of conventional usage, slang.
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See slange.

VerbEdit

slang

  1. imperative of slange

DutchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch slange, from Old Dutch slango, from Proto-Germanic *slangô (snake, serpent).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang f (plural slangen, diminutive slangetje n)

  1. snake, squamate of the suborder Serpentes
    Synonym: serpent
    Hypernym: reptiel
  2. hose (flexible tube)
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English slang.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang n (plural slangs, diminutive slangetje n)

  1. language outside the conventional register specific to a social group, slang

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English slang.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang m (plural slangs)

  1. English slang
    Twain fut un des premiers auteurs provenant des terres intérieures des États-Unis qui a su capturer la distinction, le slang comique et l'iconoclasme de sa nation.

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Further readingEdit

IndonesianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch slang (hose, literally snake), from Middle Dutch slange, from Old Dutch slango, from Proto-Germanic *slangô (snake, serpent).

NounEdit

slang (first-person possessive slangku, second-person possessive slangmu, third-person possessive slangnya)

  1. (rare) hose (flexible tube).
Usage notesEdit

Rarely used to avoid confusion with the second sense (from English slang). The alternative form selang is used instead, and becoming acceptable.

SynonymsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From English slang.

NounEdit

slang (first-person possessive slangku, second-person possessive slangmu, third-person possessive slangnya)

  1. (linguistics) slang, unconventional language.
SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

LimburgishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch slang.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang f

  1. hose (flexible tube)
InflectionEdit

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English slang.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang f

  1. slang
InflectionEdit

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

From English slang.

NounEdit

slang m (definite singular slangen)

  1. slang (non-standard informal language)
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

slang

  1. imperative of slange

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English slang.

NounEdit

slang m (definite singular slangen)

  1. slang (non-standard informal language)

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English slang.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang m inan

  1. (linguistics) argot, jargon, slang
    Synonyms: argot, gwara, żargon

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective

Related termsEdit

adverb

Further readingEdit

  • slang in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • slang in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English slang.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang n (plural slanguri)

  1. slang

DeclensionEdit

SynonymsEdit

SwedishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Low German and Middle Low German slange, from Old Saxon slango, from Proto-Germanic *slangô.

NounEdit

slang c

  1. hose, tube, flexible pipe
DeclensionEdit
Declension of slang 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative slang slangen slangar slangarna
Genitive slangs slangens slangars slangarnas

Etymology 2Edit

From English slang.

NounEdit

slang c

  1. (uncountable) slang (language)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of slang 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative slang slangen
Genitive slangs slangens

AnagramsEdit

TagalogEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈslaŋ/, [ˈslaŋ]

NounEdit

slang

  1. Alternative form of islang

AdjectiveEdit

slang

  1. Alternative form of islang

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Frisian *slanga, from Proto-Germanic *slangô.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

slang c (plural slangen, diminutive slankje)

  1. snake

Alternative formsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • slang”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011