Slang expressions dictionary
[DOCX File]Slang within the book: The Outsiders
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Slang is a casual type of language that is playful and trendy or used . by a particular group of people or particular to a time period. The slang in the book reflects both the times of the setting and its characters; much of it is 50s slang, while the remainder dates from mid …
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Expressions that do not belong to standard written English. For example, “flipping out” is slang for “losing one’s mind” or “losing one’s temper.” Slang expressions are usually inappropriate in formal speech or writing.
[DOC File]From slang to slanguage: a description based on teenage talk
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Words and expressions have been identified as slang if they are identified as such in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (1992) and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1987). With reference to The Oxford English Dictionary (OED 1989, vol xV: 651), the lexicographers Ayoto & Simpson, who compiled the former dictionary, state that ...
[DOC File]On Defining Slang
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Slang is part of a continuum of words and expressions that serve the social and interpersonal functions of language more than its ideational function. Thus slang is similar to--and sometimes is difficult to distinguish from--other kinds of vocabulary like regionalisms, vogue words, jargon, obscenity, and …
[DOC File]A 19th Century Slang Dictionary - Mess No. 1
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These are located at the end of the regular slang dictionary under a separate heading. Many of these slang terms were taken from a book entitled “Writing for the 19th Century: A Writers Guide for all things Victorian”. It is filled with wonderful information regarding slang terms and other wonderful details of …
[DOC File]Slang
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While many slang words introduce new concepts, some of the most effective slang provides new expressions--fresh, satirical, shocking--for established concepts, often very respectable ones. Sound is sometimes used as a basis for this type of slang, as, for example, in various phonetic distortions (e.g., pig …
[DOC File]Slang WORKSHEET A - Inside Out
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8. Make a list of all the slang words that appear in the conversation, where they are from, and what they mean. Slang. worksheet. D. Exercise 4 Using the slang from Worksheets A and B, can you fill in the blanks? “I don’t know if you should believe what he says. He’s a pretty _ _ _ _ _ character.” (American) “Of course I’m angry!
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Slang is sometimes regional in that it is used only in a particular territory, such as California, but slang terms are frequently particular to a certain subculture, such as musicians. Nevertheless, slang expressions can spread outside their original areas to become commonly used, like "cool" and "jive".
[DOC File]Student slang - King's College London
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I have also set up a modest resource at King’s College London for anyone interested in slang and other novelties and exoticisms. The Archive of Slang and New Language contains a database of student slang along with a selection of articles and a small library, and welcomes contributions from you, your friends, family members and fellow students.
[DOC File]10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era
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Lexicographer Jonathon Green selects the slang words and expressions that encapsulate the age in which they were coined. I've been collecting slang and publishing books about it for 30 years. My database contains 125,000 words and phrases and they keep coming.
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