Citations:slanguist

English citations of slanguist

Noun: "a person with an above-average familiarity with slang; one who loves to use or studies slang"

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• 1897 — Ellen Burns Sherman, "A Study in Current Slanguage", The Critic, Volume 31, page 153:

  Not only does the slanguist find ordinary English tame, but he ends in not being able to find any English at all.

• 1909 — John Kendrick Bangs, "An Explanation", Munsey's Magazine, Volume 37, Number 4, page 567:

  Because I am "stuck," as the slanguists

  would say,

  On spelling old words in an archaic way.

• 1945 — Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, Angus and Robertson Ltd. (1945), page 225:

  An aboriginal woman is known to the slanguist as a bitumen blonde or black velvet.

• 1980 — William Safire, "Need a new verb? Adding out is in", Lakeland Ledger, 2 November 1980:

  The "scuz" (rhymes with "fuzz") might come from "disgusted"; really with-it slanguists are scuzzed out at the squared-out weirdos who still use "grossed out."

• 1999 — Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press (1999), →ISBN, page 181:

  The inability of slow-witted censors to keep up with the implications of fast talk from "ultra-modern slanguists" made for a fun game of hide-and-seek between the hip and the hapless.

• 2005 — Charles Harrington Elster, What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, And Answers to the Peskiest Questions About Language, Harvest (2005), →ISBN, page 214:

  Slanguists generally agree that it probably comes from an ancient monogram for Jesus, IHC or IHS, in which H is the Greek capital letter eta, a long e.