slangular
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editslangular (comparative more slangular, superlative most slangular)
- (archaic) slangy
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Our Dear Brother”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 105:
- Little Swills is treated on several hands. Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterises them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as "a rummy start."
- 1886, Life, volume 7, page 192:
- For the past eighteen months Captain Thompson has been studying "these institooshuns"; eagerly drinking in Americanisms, slangular and otherwise; and conducting himself as a would-be American playwright ought to do.
References
edit- ^ “slangular, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.