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dialect
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
dialect • noun the island dialect was influenced by the Spanish in the sixteenth century synonyms...localisms; informal lingo. AWKWARD SYNONYMS dialect, argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular When...
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lingo
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
lingo • noun informal he quickly picked up the musicians' lingo synonyms : language, tongue, dialect; jargon, terminology, slang, argot, cant, patter; informal -ese, -speak, mumbo-jumbo. See note at dialect.
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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.
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vernacular
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...informal the preppy vernacular of Orange County synonyms : language, dialect, regional language, regionalisms, patois, parlance; idiom, slang, jargon; informal lingo, -speak, -ese. See note at dialect.
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chomp
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...but just bitten or gnawed, nervously. But to chomp something is to take a bite out of it and usually to consume it. In dialect, chomp is colloquially accompanied by the adverb down ( chompin’ down catfish ). Chomp is sometimes mistakenly...
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slang
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
slang • noun the street slang was a bit rough for his uptown ears synonyms : informal language, colloquialisms, patois, argot, cant, jargon. See note at dialect.
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jargon
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...slang, cant, idiom, argot, patter; informal -speak, -ese, -babble, newspeak, journalese, bureaucratese, technobabble, psychobabble; double-talk, doublespeak; gibberish, gobbledygook, blather. See note at dialect.
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speech
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
...harangue, diatribe, tirade, philippic. 4. the speech of the Deep South synonyms : language, tongue, idiom, dialect, parlance; inf. lingo. 5. given to obscene speech synonyms : utterance, remarks, comments, observations...
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tongue
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
tongue • noun 1. speak in a foreign tongue synonyms : language, speech, parlance, dialect, idiom, patois, vernacular; inf. lingo. 2. he has a glib tongue synonyms : way of speaking, mode of expression.
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patois
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
patois • noun he recognized the patois of New Orleans in her speech synonyms : vernacular, (local) dialect, regional language; jargon, argot, cant; informal (local) lingo.
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