slang

See also Slang

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

1756, origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• enPR: slăng, IPA: /slæŋ/, X-SAMPA: /sl{N/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

slang (countable and uncountable; plural slangs)

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.
   • 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 11

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

  Mandarin: 俚語 (cmn), 俚语 (cmn) (lǐyǔ), 行語 (cmn), 行语 (cmn) (hángyǔ)

• Czech: slang (cs) m, hantýrka (cs) 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) (argkó) f
• Hebrew: סלנג (he)
• Hungarian: szleng (hu)
• Japanese: 俗語 (ja) (ぞくご, zokugo), 俚言 (ja) (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 (ro) n
• Russian: сленг (ru) (sleng) m, жаргон (ru) (žargón) m, арго (ru) (argó) n (indeclinable), феня (ru) (fénja) f (in the criminal world), разговорная речь (ru) (razgovórnaja reč') f
• Scottish Gaelic: truaill-chainnt (gd) f
• Spanish: argot (es) m, jerga (es) f, germanía (es) f
• Swedish: slang (sv)
• Tagalog: salitang balbal (tl), salitang kalye (tl), salitang kanto (tl)
• Turkish: argo (tr)
• Vietnamese: tiếng lóng (vi)
• Volapük: lupöpapük (vo)

jargon — see jargon

cant — see cant

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• Serbo-Croatian: sleng (sh) m, žargon (sh) m, argo (sh) m
• Dutch: Bargoens n, dialect n
• Italian: gergo (it) m
• Hebrew: סְלֶנְג (he) (sleng) m
• Korean: 속어 [俗語] (sok-eo)

• Portuguese: gíria
• Romanian: slang (ro) n
• Spanish: argot (es) m, jerga (es) f
• Telugu: Shabdham

Verb

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, 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

External links

• slang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• slang in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• slang at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• glans
• langs

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [slɑŋ]

Noun

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 terms

• grootslang

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Czech

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Noun

slang m

1. slang

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Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /slɑŋ/

Noun

slang f (plural slangen, diminutive slangetje)

1. snake
2. hose (flexible tube)

Synonyms

• (snake): serpent

Derived terms

• (snake): grootslang
• (hose): stofzuigerslang, tuinslang

Etymology 2

From English slang.

Noun

slang n (plural slangs, diminutive slangetje)

1. language specific to one social group, slang

Anagrams

• glans, langs

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French

Etymology

From English slang

Noun

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.

See also

• argot

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Limburgish

Etymology 1

From Dutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [slɑŋ(ɡ)]

Noun

slang f

1. hose (flexible tube)

Etymology 2

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [slæŋ(ɡ)]

Noun

slang f

1. slang

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Romanian

Etymology

English slang

Pronunciation

• IPA: /slanɡ/

Noun

slang n (plural slanguri)

1. slang

Declension

declension of slang

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un slang	slangul	niște slanguri	slangurile
genitive/dative	unui slang	slangului	unor slanguri	slangurilor

Synonyms

• argou

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Swedish

Noun

slang c

1. hose, tube, flexible pipe
2. (uncountable) slang (language)

Declension

Declension of slang 1

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	slang	slangen	slangar	slangarna
genitive	slangs	slangens	slangars	slangarnas

Declension of slang 2

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	slang	slangen
genitive	slangs	slangens

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Tagalog

Noun

slang

1. (colloquial, informal) A thick foreign accent in English.

   Ayos ka mag-Ingles a, parang Kano, slang na slang!

   That´s some English diction you have, like an American, with their accent!