Slang
[slæŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); 'they don't speak our lingo'.
(noun.) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar; 'their speech was full of slang expressions'.
(verb.) abuse with coarse language.
(verb.) use slang or vulgar language.
多拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(-) imp. of Sling. Slung.
(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
(n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
(-) of Sling
班尼特手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Cant, low language, colloquial expression, inelegant expression.
简錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a conventional tongue with many dialects which are as a rule unintelligible to outsiders such as Gypsy Canting or Flash Back-slang and Shelta or Tinkers' Talk: any kind of colloquial and familiar language serving as a kind of class or professional shibboleth.—adj. pertaining to slang.—v.i. to use slang and esp. abusive language.—v.t. to scold.—adv. Slang′ily.—n. Slang′iness.—adj. Slang′ular slangy.—v.i. Slang′-whang to talk slangily or boisterously.—n. Slang′-whang′er an abusive and wordy fellow.—adj. Slang′y.
n. a narrow strip of land.—Also Slank′et. Slang slang n. (slang) a counterfeit weight or measure: a travelling show or a performance of the same: a hawker's license: a watch-chain: (pl.) convicts' leg-irons.
艾拉編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The grunt of the human hog (Pignoramus intolerabilis) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
編輯:卡蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Yet it 'crops up'--as our slang goes--my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in other fellow-creatures, rather frequently! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- HE would get on well enough if she'd let him alone; they like his slang and his brag and his blunders. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Yes, yes, Mr. Philander, if you insist upon employing slang in your discourse, a 'lion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Are you beginning to dislike slang, then? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In the detestable slang of the day, we were now both at a deadlock, and nothing was left for it but to refer to our clients on either side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
校對:罗伯特