单词 | colloquialism |
释义 | colloquialismn. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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