/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əl/ (adj)

Colloquial definition

conversational and informal as typical of speech rather than writing, vulgar, everyday, spoken, vernacular, unofficial, idiomatic

Example

Welcome to the Slangpedia entry on friends! Here you’ll find a bunch of slang and colloquial terms for “friend” and “friends”, along with slang which is more generally related to the topic of friendship, and also slang that is specifically for best friends. Without further ado, here’s our list of slang words for “friend”:

Source of example: https://slangpedia.org/

Antonyms

literary, official, formal

Parts of speech

Adverb: colloquially

Noun: colloquialism

Noun: colloquiality

Noun: colloquialness

/ˈɑː.gəʊ/ (noun)

Argot definition

a particular style of language, speech, words or expressions used by a small group of people, which is not vividly understood by other people, jargon, lingo, parlance, dialect, vernacular, slang, cant, patois, idiomatic expression

Example

Argot is a specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular social class or group, especially one that functions outside the law. Also called cant and cryptolect.

French novelist Victor Hugo observed that “argot is subject to perpetual transformation—a secret and rapid work which ever goes on. It makes more progress in ten years than the regular language in ten centuries” (Les Misérables, 1862).

ESL specialist Sara Fuchs notes that argot is “both cryptic and playful in nature and it is . . . particularly rich in vocabulary referring to drugs, crime, sexuality, money, the police, and other authority figures” (“Verlan, l’envers,” 2015).

Source of example: https://www.thoughtco.com/

Parts of speech

Adjective: argotic

/niˈɒl.ə.dʒɪ.zəm/ (noun)

Definition

a new word or expression that is recently coined or invented, new meaning, coinage, new term or phrase

Example

A neologism is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language. Neologisms are often driven by changes in culture and technology. In the process of language formation, neologisms are more mature than protologisms. A word whose development stage is between that of the protologism (freshly coined) and neologism (new word) is a prelogism.

Popular examples of neologisms can be found in science, fiction (notably science fiction), films and television, branding, literature, jargon, cant, linguistic and popular culture.

Examples include laser (1960) from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and robot (1941) from Czech writer Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org

Parts of speech

Noun: neologist

Adjective: neologistic

Verb: neologize

/ˈdʒɑː.gən/ (noun)

Definition

special words or phrases used by particular groups of people, terminology, patter, dialect, specialized language, argot, lingo, cant, slang, idiom – nonsensical or unintelligible language, guff, mumbo jumbo, nonsense

Example

Jargon is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Jargon is normally employed in a particular communicative context and may not be well understood outside that context. The context is usually a particular occupation (that is, a certain trade, profession, vernacular or academic field), but any ingroup can have jargon. The main trait that distinguishes jargon from the rest of a language is special vocabulary—including some words specific to it and often different senses or meanings of words, that outgroups would tend to take in another sense—therefore misunderstanding that communication attempt. Jargon is sometimes understood as a form of technical slang and then distinguished from the official terminology used in a particular field of activity.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/

Parts of speech

Adjective: jargonistic

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/kænt/ (noun)

glib talk, hypocritical talk, clichéd talk, facile talk, sanctimonious talk, clichés, platitudes, triteness, insincerity, false piety, lip service, commonplaces, sanctimony, insincere talk, pietism, hypocrisy, jargon, special language, rhetoric or vocabulary of a particular group or vocation, idiom, speech, terminology, slang, vernacular

Thus, though I think there is very little downright hypocrisy in the world, I do think there is a great deal of cant — “cant religious, cant political, cant literary,” etc., as Lord Byron said. Though few people have the face to set up for the very thing they in their hearts despise, we almost all want to be thought better than we are, and affect a greater admiration or abhorrence for certain things than we really feel. Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for. There are people who are made up of cant, that is of mawkish affectation and sensibility; but who have not sincerity enough to be hypocrites, that is, have not hearty dislike or contempt enough for anything, to give the lie to their puling professions of admiration and esteem for it.

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Antonym: sincerity

Noun: canter

Adjective: canting

Adverb: cantingly