slangular

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English

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Etymology

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From slang +‎ -ular.[1]

Adjective

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slangular (comparative more slangular, superlative most slangular)

  1. (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

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  1. ^ slangular, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.