Slang

Slang

Culture specific, informal words and terms that are not considered standard in a language.

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Slang

A term evidently borrowed from the technology of the engine-room, and now frequently used to express the heyday or apogee of anything. As, "By the middle of the day matters were in FULL BLAST, and ...

Fire-eater

Language; Slang

A quarrelsome man, a braggadocio or turbulent person who is always ready to start a fight.

Pinky swear

Language; Slang

The act of two or more people locking pinkies together in order to signify a promise.

Fast and loose

Language; Slang

To play fast and loose with someone, is to treat the person as a fast friend in the days while he is useful, and to cast him loose when he is no longer necessary; also, to equivocate or vacillate. In ...

Dog cheap

Language; Slang

Very or singularly cheap, or foolish. Latham, in his English Language, says:—"This has nothing to do with dogs. The first syllable is god=good, transposed, and the second, the ch p, is chapman, ...

Fishy

Language; Slang

Doubtful, unsound, rotten. The term used to denote a suspicion of a "screw being loose," or "something rotten in the state of Denmark," in referring to any proposed speculation.

Sasanach

Language; Slang

An old Irish word that refers to an Englishman in a slightly derogatory way. It likely originates from the word sasana, which refers to the Saxon people. The term receives almost no use worldwide ...