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Argot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ARGOT When we talk about the argot of drug users, we mean their vocabulary or the collection of slang...x2014; often to the exclusion of non-users. In some instances, argot extends to the intonation or pitch used to speak words and phrases...
ARGOT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ARGOT. The SLANG of a restricted, often suspect, social group: ‘They have their own argot: they bimble, yomp, or tab across the peat and couth a shirt in readiness for a Saturday night bop with the Bennies (locals)’...
SLANG
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...groups and was used fairly interchangeably with CANT , flash , ARGOT . Defining slang The word is widely used without precision...jargon , profanity or vulgarity , COLLOQUIALISM , cant , and argot , although slang shares some characteristics with each of these...
POLARI
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...etc. [From Italian parlare to talk]. A once-extensive ARGOT or CANT in Britain and elsewhere, among sailors, itinerants...derive ultimately from LINGUA FRANCA . A sample of presentday argot runs: ‘As feely homies, we would zhoosh our riahs...
Qalandar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...and other traveler populations throughout the world. In addition to their own language, Qalandri (part unique, with some argot, and secret to the extent that it is only spoken among themselves), Qalandar are adept linguists, speaking as many as five...
Tremblay, Michel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Vert in Montreal. This rowdy comedy pioneered the use on stage of joual (from cheval ), the Québécois argot that mixes broken French, swear-words, slang, and idiomatic English. This innovation caused considerable controversy...
SLANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...The Slanguage of Sex: A Dictionary of Modern Sexual Terms (1984), Brigid McConville and John Shearlaw define a slanguage as ‘an underground language’ of simile, metaphor, euphemism, and innuendo. Compare ARGOT .
YIDDISHISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...the Jewish religion (such as kosher ritually fit, and its antonym treyf , both first recorded in 1851) or were part of the argot of criminals (such as ganef a thief, goy a non-Jew, both first recorded in the 1830s). With the immigration of Eastern...
tinkers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...x2018;Shelta’, sometimes described as the distinctive language of tinkers, is better classified as a cant or argot, composed mainly of distorted versions of Irish words and not necessarily of antique origin. Nineteenth‐century...
Homelessness and Vagrancy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...world of tramping was a robust bachelor subculture anchored in urban areas of cheap lodging houses and saloons known in hobo argot as “main stems.” The largest of these, in New York City , Chicago , and San Francisco , might house...

Dictionary entries related to "Argot"

argot
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology argot XIX. — F., of unkn. orig.
Slang
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the new dictionaries, as did "peter out" (from miners' argot) and "jazz" (originally a slang expression for "sexual...acceptance as "ennobling." Such language is usually referred to as argot while used within the group itself. Picked up by others, these...
Queen Anne
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...architecture in the USA as well, often merging with the Colonial Revival. Professor Crook has called it ‘a flexible urban argot’, which is as close a description as one can get to capture its flavour. Bibliography Crook (1987); D&...

Thesaurus entries related to "Argot"

argot
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus argot • noun  the argot of the theater synonyms : jargon, slang, idiom, cant, parlance, vernacular, patois; dialect, speech, language; informal lingo. See note at dialect.
dialect
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...AWKWARD SYNONYMS   dialect, argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular...departures from formal or polite usage. Argot refers to the slang of a group that feels...other. At one time cant was a synonym for argot , but now it usually refers to pompous...
cant
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...cant synonyms : hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism.   2. thieves' cant synonyms : slang, jargon, idiom, argot, patois, speech, terminology, language; informal lingo, -speak, -ese. See note at dialect.
terminology
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English terminology • noun  legal terminology synonyms : language, phraseology, vocabulary, nomenclature, jargon, cant, argot; terms, expressions, words; inf. lingo.
slang
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English slang • noun   1. use slang rather than formal language synonyms : colloquialism, informal language.   2. cannot understand the technicians' slang synonyms : jargon, lingo, cant, argot; inf. gobbledygook, technospeak, mumbo-jumbo.
parlance
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English parlance • noun  fail to understand the parlance of the young synonyms : speech, language, talk, vocabulary, phraseology, idiom, vernacular, jargon, patter, argot, patois; inf. lingo.
jargon
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...x2022; noun  the brochure is written in legal jargon synonyms : specialized language, slang, cant, idiom, argot, patter; informal -speak, -ese, -babble, newspeak, journalese, bureaucratese, technobabble, psychobabble; double...
idiom
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...language, mode of expression, turn of phrase, style, speech, locution, diction, usage, phraseology, phrasing, phrase, vocabulary, terminology, parlance, jargon, argot, cant, patter, tongue, vernacular; informal lingo.
language
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 2. the English language synonyms : tongue, mother tongue, native tongue; dialect, patois, slang, idiom, jargon, argot, cant; informal lingo.   3. the booklet is written in simple, everyday language synonyms : wording, phrasing...
vocabulary
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...words; diction, terminology, phraseology, nomenclature, terms, expressions, parlance, idiom, jargon, vernacular, argot, cant; informal vocab, lingo, -speak, -ese.   2. she is improving her vocabulary synonyms : word power, lexicon...

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Der Gitanismo im spanischen Argot
Magazine article from: Romani Studies; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Der Gitanismo im spanischen Argot. Bernhard Helzle-Drehwald. 2004...their way into non-standard Spanish 'Argot'. To begin, we must distinguish between...remarks, however, is a definition of Argot. The author mentions that Gitanismos...
El diccionario del hampa. (influencia de las mafias sudamericanas en el argot de los delincuentes en España)(TT: Dictionary of crime) (TA: influence of South American mafias in criminals jargon in Spain)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 8/31/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...influencia de las mafias suramericanas en el argot de los delicuentes Al llegar me he hecho...menos. Incorporan al torrente lingstico un argot incomprensible para los profanos que les...entre otras palabras, ya forman parte del argot de la droga. "Paso de semaos", dice...
The `Argot Of Aristocracy'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/23/1994; 700+ words ; ...properly applied only to one part of a coat of arms, that which is above the shield. To employ what the writer refers to as the "argot of aristocracy," and is more properly called the language of heraldry (it is not necessary to be either British or an aristocrat...
Insider's argot
Magazine article from: CA Magazine; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...were speculative. Within this context, I thought it might be useful to provide a short lexicon of my own - half "insider's argot" and half an attempt to describe some of the background to the investment game. After reading this, you should be able to...
Books: Hip-to-the-argot but missing vital organs
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/1/1999; 629 words ; ...is publishing. Benjamin Malaussene, innocent abroad, is a downtrodden editor at Vendetta Press, and our hip-to-the-argot narrator. When he slips into a coma two- thirds of the way into this labyrinthine plot, his only concern is for his extended...
Britain's theatrical and operatic elites have an argot all their own, one feature of which is the use of such terms of endearment as "darling," "ducky," "lovey," and so on, regardless of the sex, orientation, or job classification of either the addresser or the addressee.(The Week)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/17/2004; 700+ words ; * Britain's theatrical and operatic elites have an argot all their own, one feature of which is the use of such terms of endearment as "darling," "ducky," "lovey," and so on...
Argot Culinario.(Buena Mesa)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 1/18/2002; 371 words ; Byline: Roco Hernndez * Moler * Mondar * Montar * Napar * Noissettes * MOLER Triturar o desmenuzar en pequeas partes o hacer polvo cualquier tipo de alimento con la ayuda de una licuadora, mortero, molcajete o metate. * MONDAR Retirar la piel de las verduras, hortalizas, frutas y algunos cortes de
Argot culinario.(Buena Mesa)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 3/8/2002; 384 words ; Byline: Roco Hernndez Tostar / Trabajar / Trabar / Trinchar / Vaciar Tostar Dorar en el horno o a las brasas la parte exterior de cualquier tipo de alimento, logrando obtener un color dorado y una textura crujiente Trabajar Remover y amasar constantemente y durante un tiempo determinado, masas,
Argot Culinario: El ABC para perder el miedo.(Buena Mesa)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 4/16/2004; 668 words ; Byline: Sarayd Luna Fotos: Ricardo Vargas Estilista de alimentos: Becky Treves Para todos aquellos curiosos de la cocina, que estan dando sus primeros pasos y no se atreven a preguntar, Buena Mesa! les presenta este nuevo espacio quincenal. Aqu encontrarn la definicin de trminos gastronmicos, para
WINDOW SHOPPER ARGOT.(Home)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/22/1992; 700+ words ; Byline: GREG PHILBY Kitchen and Bath Ideas Magazine Brush aside the draperies, roll up the shades, and take a good look at what you're looking out of. Rather than just admitting light, kitchen and bathroom windows today can take the spotlight themselves. In fact, there are so many options in