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单词 colloquialism
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colloquialismn.

Brit. /kəˈləʊkwɪəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kəˈloʊkwiəˌlɪzəm/
Etymology: see -ism suffix.
1. Colloquial quality or style, esp. of language.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > colloquial language
colloquialisma1834
Vulgate1854
colloquiality1876
colloquialness1877
demotic1917
colloquial1921
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 237 Their language is..an actual transcript of the colloquialism of the day.
1846 E. A. Poe M. E. Hewitt in Wks. (1864) III. 117 [The] colloquialism without vulgarity, of its expression.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xix. 343 Style..sometimes condescending to the humblest colloquialism.
2. A form of speech or phrase proper to, or characteristic of, ordinary conversation; a colloquial expression.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > colloquial language > a colloquial expression
familiarism1765
colloquialism1810
colloquiality1846
popularism1888
1810 Let. in R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) II. 635 The frequent mixture in some translations of mere colloquialisms.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxx. 295 The slang and colloquialisms with which we garnish..our conversation.
1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. xiii. 325 The electric shock became, in fact..to use a colloquialism, all the rage.
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