She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes calledslang.
1996, James Lambert,The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v:
English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair withslang.
"Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers'slang. / "Are you beginning to dislikeslang, then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity. / "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words isslang. It marks a class." / "There is correct English: that is notslang." / "I beg your pardon: correct English is theslang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongestslang of all is theslang of poets."
(countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
[F]or a detailed analysis see Liberman (2008 157ff) who sees it as one of a number of terms found in pan-Europeanslangs meaning concealment and/or cheating.
(countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
1921, Horace Fish,The Great Way: A Story of the Joyful, the Sorrowful, the Glorious, New York: Mitchell Kennerley:
Anyway, I have learned manyslangs while I am in New York, and one of them, a remarkable slang, issheister.
2019, Hendi Pratama,Linguistic Politeness in Online Communication, Semarang: LPPS Unnes:
The internet comes up with so manyslangs used by people to survive in the online world. Many of thoseslangs are in the form of abbreviations, for instance, the word "u" which refers to "you"[.]
2021, Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das,Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, page82:
Such attempts were made even more aggressive by the fact that these local women were known for picking fights easily and usingslangs to verbally abuse their neighbours.
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1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal'sSais”, inPlain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published2007, page26:
Also, he had to keep his temper when he wasslanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.
1907,E.M. Forster,The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 130]:
Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, andslanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …
1610,William Camden, translated byPhilémon Holland,Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland,[…], London:[…][Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton,→OCLC:
There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe orslang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.
The same assling which is also used in this sense. The vowel exhibits the lowering of /ɪ/ before /ŋ/ distinguishing forAfrican American Vernacular English, as inthang forthing, but the word has spread with this pronunciation outside the accents that exhibit this feature.
2014, “Bail Out”, Cdai (lyrics), performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai:
Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop Just another fuckin day in that gangwayslangin rocks
2016, “Call Me A Spartan”, TG Millian (lyrics), performed by Harlem Spartans (Blanco, Zico, Bis, TG Millian, MizorMac):
Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food) Cookin up grub Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh) Slang the crack or the black Put the light and dark on the move Gold and brown and cute Gyal love me and I love them too (too)
2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):
Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and Islang that bobby
2019 October 18, “Feed' Em”[2]performed by #SG Jibbzy,1:17–1:23:
Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cook He is whipping shit that we use toslang This fat prick wanna chat on YouTube still had to cheat to deny he’s gang
Twain fut un des premiers auteurs provenant des terres intérieures des États-Unis qui a su capturer la distinction, leslang comique et l’iconoclasme de sa nation.
Twain was one of the first authors coming from the interior of the United States who was able to capture the distinction, the comicslang and the iconoclasm of his nation.
