† slangn.¹

Forms: Also 1500s slaing.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slange (Dutch slang, German schlange) serpent, cannon, etc.

Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.

A species of cannon; a serpentine or culverin. (Cf. sling n.²)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > large or long pieces

serpentinec1450

culverin1515

headstick1516

slang1521

sling1547

basilisk1549

basilc1565

Roaring Meg1575

serpitanta1578

whole culverin1577

cannon1587

whole-cannon1589

cannon pedro1625

royal mortar1761

Long Tom1812

serpent1830

twelve-incher1909

Big Bertha1914

big boy1917

Lizzie1925

1521 Ld. Dacre in Archaeologia 17 205 A Saker, two Faucons,..viij. small Serpentyns.., a grete Slaing of Irn.

1539 W. Ewre Indentures Castell of Berwyke in Archaeologia (1794) 11 439 Four score shotte of leade for a slang, 16 shotte of leade for a saker.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Mak reddy ȝour..slangis, & half slangis, quartar slangis.

a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 133 Small brasen peices, slanges of irone, and vtheris mae peices that was tane fra the toun.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

slangn.²

Brit.

/slaŋ/, U.S.

/slæŋ/

Etymology: Of obscure origin. Some dialects have the form sling; further variations are slanget (slanket) and slinget (slinket).

dialect.

A long narrow strip of land. The precise sense varies a little in different localities.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip

sideling1250

tail1472

strake1503

vein1555

slip1591

neckland1598

slang1610

spang1610

screed1615

gore1650

spong1650

belt1725

slinget1790

stripe1801

strip1816

wedge1867

ribbon1923

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 715 There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out-thrust tongue.

1764 in Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities XXVIII. 145 Two slangs of ground.

1804 J. Evans Lett. Tour S. Wales 300 Formerly the lands of this district [near Fishguard] were divided into very narrow slangs, which were unenclosed.

1885 Field 4 Apr. 426/2 He struggled across a couple of grass fields into the slang adjoining Brown's Wood.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

slangn.³

Brit.

/slaŋ/, U.S.

/slæŋ/

Etymology: A word of cant origin, the ultimate source of which is not apparent. It is possible that some of the senses may represent independent words. In all senses except 1 only in slang or canting use. The date and early associations of the word make it unlikely that there is any connection with certain Norwegian forms in sleng- which exhibit some approximation in sense.

a. The special vocabulary used by any set of persons of a low or disreputable character; language of a low and vulgar type. (Now merged in sense 1c.)In the first quot. 1756 the reference may be to customs or habits rather than language: cf. the use of slang adj. 2b.

ΘΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by thieves or disreputable characters

pedlar's French1530

peddling French?1536

cant1706

slang1756

patter1758

rogue's Latin1818

thieves' Latin1821

Rotwelsch1827

underworld1927

Runyonesque1934

mobese1955

smogger1958

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. 68 Thomas Throw had been upon the town, knew the slang well.

1775 H. Kelly School for Wives (new ed.) iii. 58 There is a language we [bailiffs] sometimes talk in, call'd Slang.

1809 E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 106 Such grossness of speech, and horrid oaths, as shewed them not to be unskilled in the slang or vulgar tongue of the lowest blackguards in the nation.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 314 What did actually reach his ears was disguised..completely by the use of cant words, and the thieves-Latin called slang.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 117 And broaches at his mother's table The slang of kennel and of stable.

b. The special vocabulary or phraseology of a particular calling or profession; the cant or jargon of a certain class or period.

ΘΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon

language1502

term of art1570

fustiana1593

jargoning1623

jargon1651

speciality1657

lingo1659

cant1684

linguaa1734

patois1790

slang1801

shibboleth1829

glim-glibber1844

argot1860

gammy1864

patter1875

stagese1876

vernacular1876

palaver1909

babble1930

buzzword1946

in word1964

rabbit1976

1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 723/1 A studied harangue, filled with that sentimental slang of philanthropy, which costs so little, promises so much, and has now corrupted all the languages of Europe.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xviii. 306 Giving, in return for those fees, scraps of written lawyer's slang.

1834 H. J. Rose Apol. Study of Divinity (ed. 2) 15 However tempting the scientific slang, if I may so term it, of the day may be.

1857 C. Kingsley Let. in Lett. & Memories (1877) II. 43 I have drawn, modelled in clay, and picture fancied, so much in past years, that I have got unconsciously into the slang.

1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. xi. 172 Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

c. Language of a highly colloquial type, considered as below the level of standard educated speech, and consisting either of new words or of current words employed in some special sense.

ΘΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang

St. Giles's Greek1785

slum1812

slang1818

slanguage1879

1818 Keble in Sir J. T. Coleridge Mem. (1869) 75 Two of the best [students] come to me as a peculiar grinder (I must have a little slang).

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliii. 390 He was too old to listen to the banter of the assistant-surgeon and the slang of the youngsters.

1868 J. Doran Saints & Sinners I. 107 He [Latimer] occasionally employed some of the slang of the day to give force to his words.

1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max xv If I had ever talked slang, I might have said that we chummed together famously.

1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton iv. 227 In the regrettable slang of the servants' hall, my lady, the master is usually referred to as the Gov.

1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. i. 156 Don't say ‘swell’. And don't say ‘huh’. Can't you learn to cut out the slang?

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang p. ix A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, i.e. of linguistically unconventional English, should be of interest to word-lovers.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 520/4 In Australia, slang simply has a quite different status from slang in England. It is a part of ‘Standard English’ there, not outside ‘Standard English’. Slang words are used informally, casually and naturally by all Australians regardless of class or education.

d. Abuse, impertinence. (Cf. slang v. 3, 4.)

ΘΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language

swarec1200

shit-wordc1275

words of villainya1300

filtha1400

reveriec1425

bawdry1589

scurrility1589

bawdy1622

tongue-worm1645

borborology1647

Billingsgatry1673

double entendre1673

smut1698

blackguardism1756

slang1805

epithet1818

dirty word1842

French1845

language1855

bad languagec1863

bestiality1879

swear-word1883

damson-tart1887

comminative1888

double entente1895

curse-word1897

bang-words1906

soldier's farewell1909

strong languagea1910

dirty story1912

dirty joke1913

bullocky1916

shitticism1936

Anglo-Saxonism1944

sweary1994

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun]

balec1220

ordurec1390

revile1439

brawlingc1440

railing1466

opprobry?a1475

revilingc1475

vituperation1481

vituper1484

vitupery1489

convicy1526

abusion?1530

blasphemation1533

pelta1540

oblatration?1552

words of mischief1555

abuse1559

inveighing1568

invection1590

revilement1590

invective1602

opprobration1623

invecture1633

thunder and lightning1638

raillery1669

rattlinga1677

blackguarding1742

pillory1770

slang1805

slangwhanging1809

bullyragging1820

slanging1856

bespattering1862

bespatterment1870

bad-mouthing1939

bad mouth1947

slagging1956

flak1968

verbal1970

handbagging1987

pelters1992

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech

sauce malapert1529

petulancea1652

jaw1748

snash1786

slack-jaw1797

slang1805

gob1807

lip1821

cheek1825

slack1825

sass1841

back-talk1858

back sass1883

mouth1891

slack lip1899

back-chat1901

chin1902

slop1952

1805 T. Campbell Let. 9 Feb. in W. Partington Private Letter-bks. W. Scott (1930) 100 In five weeks, however, her slang broke out, and within the seventh she discovered the whole catalogue of Vices of which a very ugly woman can be guilty.

1825 J. G. Lockhart in W. Scott Familiar Lett. (1894) II. 297 This Mr. H. gave grand slang to the Porters, etc., who crowded the vessel on our anchoring: ‘Your fingers are all thumbs, I see’, etc.

†2. Humbug, nonsense. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1762 S. Foote Orators i. 5 Have you not seen the bills?.. What, about lectures; ay, but that's all slang, I suppose; no, no. No tricks upon travellers.

†3. A line of work; a ‘lay’. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > line of business or work

line1638

way1642

lay1707

walk1715

slang1789

métier1792

Fach1838

lark1934

line of work1957

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 133 How do you work now?.. O, upon the old slang, and sometimes a little lully-prigging.

4. A licence, esp. that of a hawker.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang,..a warrant, license to travel, or other official instrument.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) ‘Out on the slang,’ i.e. to travel with a hawker's licence.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 2/1 You don't want for much to start with;..½ sovereign..for a (slang) licence is plenty.

a. A travelling show.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > travelling

slang1859

geggie1898

1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 94 Slang, a travelling show.

1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 63 There is a great deal of the Rommany or Gipsy element..wherever the ‘slangs’ or exhibition affairs show themselves.

b. A performance.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance

entertainment1640

performance1696

programme1799

set-out1818

slang1861

perf1919

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 93/2 I'm talking of a big pitch, when we go through all our ‘slang’, as we say.

6. A short weight or measure. (Cf. slang adj. 3.)

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > a measure > deficient

short measure1789

slang1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 There's plenty of costers wouldn't use slangs at all, if people would give a fair price.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 90/1 Some of the street weights, a good many of them, are slangs.

Compounds

C1. attributive (in sense 1c).

1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 139 Like a door from which some slang-loving roué has wrenched the knocker.

1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 369/2 That great slang-manufactory for the army, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

1856 G. Meredith Let. 15 Dec. (1970) I. 28 Have you..a book of Hampshire Dialect?.. Also a slang Dictionary, or book of the same with Gloss.

1926 Variety 29 Dec. 5/3 I was hep that the slang slingers were not crowding each other.

1977 K. F. Kister Dict. Buying Guide ii. 240 The more substantial slang dictionaries provide detailed word histories and thus complement the etymological dictionaries.

C2.

slang cove n. (also slang cull) [see sense 5] a showman.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] > show-people > showman

exhibitera1616

exhibitor1654

showman1728

traveller1762

slang cove1789

exhibitioner1791

sideshowman1858

mud showman1927

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 144 To exhibit any thing in a fair or market,..that's called slanging, and the exhibiter is called the slang cull.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 353/2 We did intend petitioning.., but I don't suppose it would be any go, seeing as how the slang coves (the showmen), have done so, and been refused.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

slangn.⁴

Brit.

/slaŋ/, U.S.

/slæŋ/

Etymology: apparently < Dutch slang snake, etc.: see slang n.¹

Cant.

1. A watch-chain; a chain of any kind.German schlange is similarly used in canting language.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > chain

chainc1300

carolc1425

racklea1500

link1570

chainage1611

slang1819

team1828

slag1857

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of

barrel1591

motion1605

bezel1616

fusee1622

string1638

crown wheel1646

out-case1651

watch-box1656

nuck1664

watchwork1667

balance-wheel1669

box1675

dial wheel1675

counter-potence1678

pendulum-balance1680

watch-case1681

pillar1684

contrate teeth1696

pinion of report1696

watch-hook1698

bob-balance1701

half-cock1701

potence1704

verge1704

pad1705

movable1709

jewel1711

pendant1721

crystal1722

watch-key1723

pendulum spring1728

lock spring1741

watch-glass1742

watch-spring1761

all-or-nothing piece1764

watch hand1764

cylinder1765

cannon?1780

cannon1802

stackfreed1819

pillar plate1821

little hand1829

hair-spring1830

lunette1832

all-or-nothing1843

locking1851

slag1857

staff1860

case spring1866

stem1866

balance-cock1874

watch-dial1875

balance-spring1881

balance-staff1881

Breguet spring1881

overcoil1881

surprise-piece1881

brass edge1884

button turn1884

fourth wheel1884

fusee-sink1884

pair-case1884

silver bar1884

silver piece1884

slang1884

top plate1884

karrusel1893

watch-face1893

watch bracelet1896

bar-movement1903

jewel pivot1907

jewel bearing1954

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang, A watch chain, a chain of any kind.

c1866 Vance Chickaleary Cove (Farmer) How to do a cross-fan for a super or slang.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Dec. 4/2 The slang (chain) should be taken with the watch, if possible, by snipping..the button~hole that it is fixed in.

2. plural. Fetters, leg-irons.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > instruments of punishment in > prison fetters

bilboa1584

basil1591

slangs1819

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slangs, fetters, or chains of any kind used about prisoners.

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Slangs are the greaves with which the legs of convicts are fettered.

1883 York & York Castle 276 Each set of these slangs or leg irons, weighing perhaps from twelve to fifty pounds.

Derivatives

slanged adj. fettered.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled > by the feet or legs

gyved1382

leg iron1779

slanged1819

leg-ironed1848

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II.

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slangadj.adv.

Brit.

/slaŋ/, U.S.

/slæŋ/

Etymology: Related to slang n.³

1. Of language, etc.: Having the character of, belonging to, expressed in, slang.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of slang

flash1747

slang1758

slangish1813

slangy1842

argotic1863

1758 J. Wild's Adv. to Successor (Hotten) The master who teaches them should be a man well versed in the cant language, commonly called the slang patter.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 5 Mar. 135/1 The following Stanzas..in the Slang, or Brentford dialect.

1810 Ann. Reg. 296 The police-officers are of opinion that the robbery..is what is called, in slang language, a put-up robbery.

1817 Edinb. Rev. 28 512 Now this style is the reverse of one made up of slang phrases.

1861 Q. Rev. No. 220. 468 The translation..is studded with the colloquialisms, and sometimes even slang expressions, of Charles II's time.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains i. 24 Set phrases, each with a special and almost a slang signification.

a. Given to the use of slang; of a fast or rakish character; impertinent.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective]

golec888

canga1225

light?c1225

wooinga1382

nicea1387

riota1400

wantonc1400

wrenec1400

lachesc1450

loose?a1500

licentious1555

libertine1560

prostitute1569

riggish1569

wide1574

slipper1581

slippery1586

sportive1595

gay1597

Cyprian1598

suburb1598

waggish1600

smicker1606

suburbian1606

loose-living1607

wantona1627

free-living1632

libertinous1632

loose-lived1641

Corinthian1642

akolastic1656

slight1685

fast1699

freea1731

brisk1740

shy1787

slang1818

randomc1825

fastish1832

loosish1846

slummya1860

velocious1872

fly1880

slack1951

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > impudent in speech or of speech

bardish1641

brisk1665

flippant1677

sassy1799

slang1818

lippy1875

smart-mouthed1967

the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of slang > using

slang1818

fast1849

slangy1870

1818 T. Moore Diary 1 Dec. The conversation to-day of rather a commoner turn than usual on account of these slang bucks.

1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. x. 189 The set with whom he lived at Cambridge were the worst of the place. They were fast, slang men, who were fast and slang, and nothing else.

1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar xi Forgetting in his indignation to be either slang or cool.

1864 The Realm 30 Mar. 7 Daring, saucy girls, slang and fast.

in combination.1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xii A slang-looking man with red whiskers.

b. Of dress: Loud, extravagant; more showy or obtrusive than accords with good taste. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > loud, showy, or vulgar

well-furredc1440

slang1828

thunder and lightning1837

slangy1861

Directoire1878

roary1901

1828 Sporting Mag. 22 444 Without the slightest appearance of slang or flash toggery about him.

1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy iii. 11 A smart scarf, a very new hat, a slang coat, and a massive watch-chain.

1858 G. J. Whyte-Melville Interpreter x His dress was peculiarly neat and gentlemanlike, not the least what is now termed ‘slang’.

c. Of tone, etc.: Slangy, rakish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of slang > of tone

slanga1834

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 47 Let some wit call out in a slang tone,—‘the gallows!’ and a peal of laughter would damn the play.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 58 A slang air..and the use of certain significant phrases..current in London.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxix. 263 The slang tone in which these words were uttered produced another burst of laughter.

a. Costers' slang. Of weights and measures: Short, defective.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > deficient (of measure or weight)

slang1819

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang weights or measures, unjust, or defective ones.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 The slang quart is a pint and a half.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 The slang pint holds in some cases three-fourths of the just quantity.

b. adv. So as to give short measure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [adverb] > so as to give short measure

slang1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 He could always ‘work slang’ with a true measure.

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slangv.

Brit.

/slaŋ/, U.S.

/slæŋ/

Etymology: < slang n.³ or slang adj., in various senses.

colloquial or slang.

1. ? intransitive. To exhibit at a fair or market.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > exhibit [verb (intransitive)]

to see, or show, the lions1782

slang1789

show1903

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 144 To exhibit any thing in a fair or market,..that's called slanging, and the exhibiter is called the slang cull.

a. transitive. To defraud, cheat.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle

defraud1362

deceivec1380

plucka1500

lurch1530

defeata1538

souse1545

lick1548

wipe1549

fraud1563

use1564

cozen1573

nick1576

verse1591

rooka1595

trim1600

skelder1602

firk1604

dry-shave1620

fiddle1630

nose1637

foista1640

doa1642

sharka1650

chouse1654

burn1655

bilk1672

under-enter1692

sharp1699

stick1699

finger1709

roguea1714

fling1749

swindle1773

jink1777

queer1778

to do over1781

jump1789

mace1790

chisel1808

slang1812

bucket1819

to clean out1819

give it1819

to put in the hole1819

ramp1819

sting1819

victimize1839

financier1840

gum1840

snakea1861

to take down1865

verneuk1871

bunco1875

rush1875

gyp1879

salt1882

daddle1883

work1884

to have (one) on toast1886

slip1890

to do (a person) in the eye1891

sugar1892

flay1893

to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895

con1896

pad1897

screw1900

short-change1903

to do in1906

window dress1913

ream1914

twist1914

clean1915

rim1918

tweedle1925

hype1926

clip1927

take1927

gazump1928

yentz1930

promote1931

to take (someone) to the cleaners1932

to carve up1933

chizz1948

stiff1950

scam1963

to rip off1969

to stitch up1970

skunk1971

to steal (someone) blind1974

diddle-

1812 Sporting Mag. 39 284 He slanged the dragsman,..which means that he sneaked away from the coach.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang, to defraud a person of any part of his due, is called slanging him; also to cheat by false weights or measures, or other unfair means.

b. intransitive (also with it). To employ cheating; to give short measure.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)] > give short measure or weight

slang1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 So the men slangs it, and cries ‘2d. a pound’, and gives half-pound.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 474/2 What he's made by slanging, and what he's been fined.

3. intransitive. To utter, make use of, slang; to rail in abusive or vulgar language.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [verb (intransitive)] > abuse, scold, or wrangle

chidec1175

to say or speak (a, no, etc.) villainy1303

scold1377

revilea1460

raila1470

fare1603

extirp1605

camp1606

callet1620

oblatrate1623

cample1628

objurgate1642

reprobate1698

slang1828

vituperate1856

to shoot one's mouth off1864

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xii. 105 We rowed, swore, slanged with a Christian meekness and forbearance.

1842 Ld. Houghton Let. 27 Nov. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. vii. 285 Having so furiously slanged against the wickedness of the war.

1868 W. R. Greg Lit. & Social Judgm. 141 Mr. Carlyle slangs like a blaspheming pagan; Mr. Kingsley like a denouncing prophet.

4. transitive. To abuse or scold violently.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)]

vilea1300

rebutc1330

revilea1393

arunt1399

stainc1450

brawl1474

vituper1484

rebalk1501

to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542

rattle1542

vituperate1542

bedaub1570

beray1576

bespurt1579

wring1581

misuse1583

caperclaw1589

abuse1592

rail1592

exagitate1593

to shoot atc1595

belabour1596

to scour one's mouth on1598

bespurtle1604

conviciate1604

scandala1616

delitigate1623

betongue1639

bespatter1644

rant1647

palt1648

opprobriatea1657

pelt1658

proscind1659

inveigh1670

clapperclaw1692

blackguard1767

philippize1804

drub1811

foul-mouth1822

bullyrag1823

target1837

barge1841

to light on ——1842

slang1844

villainize1857

slangwhang1880

slam-bang1888

vituperize1894

bad-mouth1941

slag1958

zing1962

to dump on (occasionally all over)1967

1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. i. 5 He could..slang coal-heavers..better than anybody else in London.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. v. 19 His off-hand way of blowing up and slanging people.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xi. 314 He sent for the offender..and in the most slashing style ‘slanged’, even threatened him.

Derivatives

ˈslanging n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > action of using abuse

ribaldyc1300

chiding1340

ribaldrya1400

revile1439

revilingc1475

vituperation1481

vituper1484

tongue-sore1542

oblatration?1552

thundering1564

wording1564

revilement1590

slabbery1596

invective1602

campling1660

bitching1706

slangwhanging1809

name-calling1819

slanging1856

rough tonguing1916

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun]

balec1220

ordurec1390

revile1439

brawlingc1440

railing1466

opprobry?a1475

revilingc1475

vituperation1481

vituper1484

vitupery1489

convicy1526

abusion?1530

blasphemation1533

pelta1540

oblatration?1552

words of mischief1555

abuse1559

inveighing1568

invection1590

revilement1590

invective1602

opprobration1623

invecture1633

thunder and lightning1638

raillery1669

rattlinga1677

blackguarding1742

pillory1770

slang1805

slangwhanging1809

bullyragging1820

slanging1856

bespattering1862

bespatterment1870

bad-mouthing1939

bad mouth1947

slagging1956

flak1968

verbal1970

handbagging1987

pelters1992

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 250 I feel certain that I could stand any..quantity of what is genteelly called ‘slanging’.

1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. iii. 58 I never had such a slanging in my life!

1895 Athenæum 7 Sept. 316/3 The slanging all round which they give one another.

slanging match n. an exchange of abuse; a vituperative argument.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > abusive language > exchange of

flite1768

slanging match1896

insult1964

bitchfest1985

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of

ganglinga1387

altercation1410

brawla1500

heat1549

wranglea1555

brabble1566

paroxysm1578

wrangling1580

brangle1600

branglement1617

rixation1623

row1746

skimmington1753

mêlée1765

breeze1785

squeal1788

hash1789

rook1808

blow-up1809

blowout1825

scena1826

reerie1832

catfight1854

barney1855

wigs on the green1856

bull and cow1859

scrap1890

slanging match1896

snap1897

up-and-downer1927

brannigan1941

rhubarb1941

bitch fight1949

punch-up1958

shout-up1965

shouting match1970

1896 T. E. Taylor Running Blockade vi. 74 A slanging match went on between us, like that sometimes to be heard between two penny steamboat captains on the Thames.

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Oct. 12/3 They [sc. the speeches] were made by the man who commands the highest authority and the greatest power in all the Reich, and they provoked an international slanging match.

1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia xii. 243 The slanging-match in the newspapers.

1978 J. Porter Dead Easy for Dover xiv. 140 Mrs Vincent very sensibly decided not to get involved in a slanging match with Dover. Their views on unmarried mothers were poles apart.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

n.¹1521

n.²1610

n.³1756

n.⁴1819

adj.adv.1758

v.1789

单词	slang
释义	† slangn.¹ Forms: Also 1500s slaing. Etymology: < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slange (Dutch slang, German schlange) serpent, cannon, etc. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. A species of cannon; a serpentine or culverin. (Cf. sling n.²) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > large or long pieces serpentinec1450 culverin1515 headstick1516 slang1521 sling1547 basilisk1549 basilc1565 Roaring Meg1575 serpitanta1578 whole culverin1577 cannon1587 whole-cannon1589 cannon pedro1625 royal mortar1761 Long Tom1812 serpent1830 twelve-incher1909 Big Bertha1914 big boy1917 Lizzie1925 1521 Ld. Dacre in Archaeologia 17 205 A Saker, two Faucons,..viij. small Serpentyns.., a grete Slaing of Irn. 1539 W. Ewre Indentures Castell of Berwyke in Archaeologia (1794) 11 439 Four score shotte of leade for a slang, 16 shotte of leade for a saker. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Mak reddy ȝour..slangis, & half slangis, quartar slangis. a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 133 Small brasen peices, slanges of irone, and vtheris mae peices that was tane fra the toun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). slangn.² Brit. /slaŋ/, U.S. /slæŋ/ Etymology: Of obscure origin. Some dialects have the form sling; further variations are slanget (slanket) and slinget (slinket). dialect. A long narrow strip of land. The precise sense varies a little in different localities. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip sideling1250 tail1472 strake1503 vein1555 slip1591 neckland1598 slang1610 spang1610 screed1615 gore1650 spong1650 belt1725 slinget1790 stripe1801 strip1816 wedge1867 ribbon1923 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 715 There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out-thrust tongue. 1764 in Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities XXVIII. 145 Two slangs of ground. 1804 J. Evans Lett. Tour S. Wales 300 Formerly the lands of this district [near Fishguard] were divided into very narrow slangs, which were unenclosed. 1885 Field 4 Apr. 426/2 He struggled across a couple of grass fields into the slang adjoining Brown's Wood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). slangn.³ Brit. /slaŋ/, U.S. /slæŋ/ Etymology: A word of cant origin, the ultimate source of which is not apparent. It is possible that some of the senses may represent independent words. In all senses except 1 only in slang or canting use. The date and early associations of the word make it unlikely that there is any connection with certain Norwegian forms in sleng- which exhibit some approximation in sense. 1. a. The special vocabulary used by any set of persons of a low or disreputable character; language of a low and vulgar type. (Now merged in sense 1c.)In the first quot. 1756 the reference may be to customs or habits rather than language: cf. the use of slang adj. 2b. ΘΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by thieves or disreputable characters pedlar's French1530 peddling French?1536 cant1706 slang1756 patter1758 rogue's Latin1818 thieves' Latin1821 Rotwelsch1827 underworld1927 Runyonesque1934 mobese1955 smogger1958 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. 68 Thomas Throw had been upon the town, knew the slang well. 1775 H. Kelly School for Wives (new ed.) iii. 58 There is a language we [bailiffs] sometimes talk in, call'd Slang. 1809 E. S. Barrett Setting Sun I. 106 Such grossness of speech, and horrid oaths, as shewed them not to be unskilled in the slang or vulgar tongue of the lowest blackguards in the nation. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 314 What did actually reach his ears was disguised..completely by the use of cant words, and the thieves-Latin called slang. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 117 And broaches at his mother's table The slang of kennel and of stable. b. The special vocabulary or phraseology of a particular calling or profession; the cant or jargon of a certain class or period. ΘΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon language1502 term of art1570 fustiana1593 jargoning1623 jargon1651 speciality1657 lingo1659 cant1684 linguaa1734 patois1790 slang1801 shibboleth1829 glim-glibber1844 argot1860 gammy1864 patter1875 stagese1876 vernacular1876 palaver1909 babble1930 buzzword1946 in word1964 rabbit1976 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 723/1 A studied harangue, filled with that sentimental slang of philanthropy, which costs so little, promises so much, and has now corrupted all the languages of Europe. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xviii. 306 Giving, in return for those fees, scraps of written lawyer's slang. 1834 H. J. Rose Apol. Study of Divinity (ed. 2) 15 However tempting the scientific slang, if I may so term it, of the day may be. 1857 C. Kingsley Let. in Lett. & Memories (1877) II. 43 I have drawn, modelled in clay, and picture fancied, so much in past years, that I have got unconsciously into the slang. 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. xi. 172 Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. c. Language of a highly colloquial type, considered as below the level of standard educated speech, and consisting either of new words or of current words employed in some special sense. ΘΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > slang St. Giles's Greek1785 slum1812 slang1818 slanguage1879 1818 Keble in Sir J. T. Coleridge Mem. (1869) 75 Two of the best [students] come to me as a peculiar grinder (I must have a little slang). 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliii. 390 He was too old to listen to the banter of the assistant-surgeon and the slang of the youngsters. 1868 J. Doran Saints & Sinners I. 107 He [Latimer] occasionally employed some of the slang of the day to give force to his words. 1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max xv If I had ever talked slang, I might have said that we chummed together famously. 1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton iv. 227 In the regrettable slang of the servants' hall, my lady, the master is usually referred to as the Gov. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. i. 156 Don't say ‘swell’. And don't say ‘huh’. Can't you learn to cut out the slang? 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang p. ix A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, i.e. of linguistically unconventional English, should be of interest to word-lovers. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 520/4 In Australia, slang simply has a quite different status from slang in England. It is a part of ‘Standard English’ there, not outside ‘Standard English’. Slang words are used informally, casually and naturally by all Australians regardless of class or education. d. Abuse, impertinence. (Cf. slang v. 3, 4.) ΘΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > profane language swarec1200 shit-wordc1275 words of villainya1300 filtha1400 reveriec1425 bawdry1589 scurrility1589 bawdy1622 tongue-worm1645 borborology1647 Billingsgatry1673 double entendre1673 smut1698 blackguardism1756 slang1805 epithet1818 dirty word1842 French1845 language1855 bad languagec1863 bestiality1879 swear-word1883 damson-tart1887 comminative1888 double entente1895 curse-word1897 bang-words1906 soldier's farewell1909 strong languagea1910 dirty story1912 dirty joke1913 bullocky1916 shitticism1936 Anglo-Saxonism1944 sweary1994 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] balec1220 ordurec1390 revile1439 brawlingc1440 railing1466 opprobry?a1475 revilingc1475 vituperation1481 vituper1484 vitupery1489 convicy1526 abusion?1530 blasphemation1533 pelta1540 oblatration?1552 words of mischief1555 abuse1559 inveighing1568 invection1590 revilement1590 invective1602 opprobration1623 invecture1633 thunder and lightning1638 raillery1669 rattlinga1677 blackguarding1742 pillory1770 slang1805 slangwhanging1809 bullyragging1820 slanging1856 bespattering1862 bespatterment1870 bad-mouthing1939 bad mouth1947 slagging1956 flak1968 verbal1970 handbagging1987 pelters1992 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech sauce malapert1529 petulancea1652 jaw1748 snash1786 slack-jaw1797 slang1805 gob1807 lip1821 cheek1825 slack1825 sass1841 back-talk1858 back sass1883 mouth1891 slack lip1899 back-chat1901 chin1902 slop1952 1805 T. Campbell Let. 9 Feb. in W. Partington Private Letter-bks. W. Scott (1930) 100 In five weeks, however, her slang broke out, and within the seventh she discovered the whole catalogue of Vices of which a very ugly woman can be guilty. 1825 J. G. Lockhart in W. Scott Familiar Lett. (1894) II. 297 This Mr. H. gave grand slang to the Porters, etc., who crowded the vessel on our anchoring: ‘Your fingers are all thumbs, I see’, etc. †2. Humbug, nonsense. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1762 S. Foote Orators i. 5 Have you not seen the bills?.. What, about lectures; ay, but that's all slang, I suppose; no, no. No tricks upon travellers. †3. A line of work; a ‘lay’. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > line of business or work line1638 way1642 lay1707 walk1715 slang1789 métier1792 Fach1838 lark1934 line of work1957 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 133 How do you work now?.. O, upon the old slang, and sometimes a little lully-prigging. 4. A licence, esp. that of a hawker. Π 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang,..a warrant, license to travel, or other official instrument. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) ‘Out on the slang,’ i.e. to travel with a hawker's licence. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 2/1 You don't want for much to start with;..½ sovereign..for a (slang) licence is plenty. 5. a. A travelling show. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > travelling slang1859 geggie1898 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 94 Slang, a travelling show. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 63 There is a great deal of the Rommany or Gipsy element..wherever the ‘slangs’ or exhibition affairs show themselves. b. A performance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > a performance entertainment1640 performance1696 programme1799 set-out1818 slang1861 perf1919 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 93/2 I'm talking of a big pitch, when we go through all our ‘slang’, as we say. 6. A short weight or measure. (Cf. slang adj. 3.) ΘΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > a measure > deficient short measure1789 slang1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 There's plenty of costers wouldn't use slangs at all, if people would give a fair price. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 90/1 Some of the street weights, a good many of them, are slangs. Compounds C1. attributive (in sense 1c). Π 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 139 Like a door from which some slang-loving roué has wrenched the knocker. 1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 369/2 That great slang-manufactory for the army, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 1856 G. Meredith Let. 15 Dec. (1970) I. 28 Have you..a book of Hampshire Dialect?.. Also a slang Dictionary, or book of the same with Gloss. 1926 Variety 29 Dec. 5/3 I was hep that the slang slingers were not crowding each other. 1977 K. F. Kister Dict. Buying Guide ii. 240 The more substantial slang dictionaries provide detailed word histories and thus complement the etymological dictionaries. C2. slang cove n. (also slang cull) [see sense 5] a showman. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] > show-people > showman exhibitera1616 exhibitor1654 showman1728 traveller1762 slang cove1789 exhibitioner1791 sideshowman1858 mud showman1927 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 144 To exhibit any thing in a fair or market,..that's called slanging, and the exhibiter is called the slang cull. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 353/2 We did intend petitioning.., but I don't suppose it would be any go, seeing as how the slang coves (the showmen), have done so, and been refused. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). slangn.⁴ Brit. /slaŋ/, U.S. /slæŋ/ Etymology: apparently < Dutch slang snake, etc.: see slang n.¹ Cant. 1. A watch-chain; a chain of any kind.German schlange is similarly used in canting language. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > chain chainc1300 carolc1425 racklea1500 link1570 chainage1611 slang1819 team1828 slag1857 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > parts of barrel1591 motion1605 bezel1616 fusee1622 string1638 crown wheel1646 out-case1651 watch-box1656 nuck1664 watchwork1667 balance-wheel1669 box1675 dial wheel1675 counter-potence1678 pendulum-balance1680 watch-case1681 pillar1684 contrate teeth1696 pinion of report1696 watch-hook1698 bob-balance1701 half-cock1701 potence1704 verge1704 pad1705 movable1709 jewel1711 pendant1721 crystal1722 watch-key1723 pendulum spring1728 lock spring1741 watch-glass1742 watch-spring1761 all-or-nothing piece1764 watch hand1764 cylinder1765 cannon?1780 cannon1802 stackfreed1819 pillar plate1821 little hand1829 hair-spring1830 lunette1832 all-or-nothing1843 locking1851 slag1857 staff1860 case spring1866 stem1866 balance-cock1874 watch-dial1875 balance-spring1881 balance-staff1881 Breguet spring1881 overcoil1881 surprise-piece1881 brass edge1884 button turn1884 fourth wheel1884 fusee-sink1884 pair-case1884 silver bar1884 silver piece1884 slang1884 top plate1884 karrusel1893 watch-face1893 watch bracelet1896 bar-movement1903 jewel pivot1907 jewel bearing1954 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang, A watch chain, a chain of any kind. c1866 Vance Chickaleary Cove (Farmer) How to do a cross-fan for a super or slang. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Dec. 4/2 The slang (chain) should be taken with the watch, if possible, by snipping..the button~hole that it is fixed in. 2. plural. Fetters, leg-irons. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > instruments of punishment in > prison fetters bilboa1584 basil1591 slangs1819 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slangs, fetters, or chains of any kind used about prisoners. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Slangs are the greaves with which the legs of convicts are fettered. 1883 York & York Castle 276 Each set of these slangs or leg irons, weighing perhaps from twelve to fifty pounds. Derivatives slanged adj. fettered. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled > by the feet or legs gyved1382 leg iron1779 slanged1819 leg-ironed1848 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). slangadj.adv. Brit. /slaŋ/, U.S. /slæŋ/ Etymology: Related to slang n.³ 1. Of language, etc.: Having the character of, belonging to, expressed in, slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of slang flash1747 slang1758 slangish1813 slangy1842 argotic1863 1758 J. Wild's Adv. to Successor (Hotten) The master who teaches them should be a man well versed in the cant language, commonly called the slang patter. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 5 Mar. 135/1 The following Stanzas..in the Slang, or Brentford dialect. 1810 Ann. Reg. 296 The police-officers are of opinion that the robbery..is what is called, in slang language, a put-up robbery. 1817 Edinb. Rev. 28 512 Now this style is the reverse of one made up of slang phrases. 1861 Q. Rev. No. 220. 468 The translation..is studded with the colloquialisms, and sometimes even slang expressions, of Charles II's time. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains i. 24 Set phrases, each with a special and almost a slang signification. 2. a. Given to the use of slang; of a fast or rakish character; impertinent. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective] golec888 canga1225 light?c1225 wooinga1382 nicea1387 riota1400 wantonc1400 wrenec1400 lachesc1450 loose?a1500 licentious1555 libertine1560 prostitute1569 riggish1569 wide1574 slipper1581 slippery1586 sportive1595 gay1597 Cyprian1598 suburb1598 waggish1600 smicker1606 suburbian1606 loose-living1607 wantona1627 free-living1632 libertinous1632 loose-lived1641 Corinthian1642 akolastic1656 slight1685 fast1699 freea1731 brisk1740 shy1787 slang1818 randomc1825 fastish1832 loosish1846 slummya1860 velocious1872 fly1880 slack1951 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > impudent in speech or of speech bardish1641 brisk1665 flippant1677 sassy1799 slang1818 lippy1875 smart-mouthed1967 the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of slang > using slang1818 fast1849 slangy1870 1818 T. Moore Diary 1 Dec. The conversation to-day of rather a commoner turn than usual on account of these slang bucks. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. x. 189 The set with whom he lived at Cambridge were the worst of the place. They were fast, slang men, who were fast and slang, and nothing else. 1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar xi Forgetting in his indignation to be either slang or cool. 1864 The Realm 30 Mar. 7 Daring, saucy girls, slang and fast. in combination.1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry xii A slang-looking man with red whiskers. b. Of dress: Loud, extravagant; more showy or obtrusive than accords with good taste. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > loud, showy, or vulgar well-furredc1440 slang1828 thunder and lightning1837 slangy1861 Directoire1878 roary1901 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 444 Without the slightest appearance of slang or flash toggery about him. 1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy iii. 11 A smart scarf, a very new hat, a slang coat, and a massive watch-chain. 1858 G. J. Whyte-Melville Interpreter x His dress was peculiarly neat and gentlemanlike, not the least what is now termed ‘slang’. c. Of tone, etc.: Slangy, rakish. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to or of the nature of slang > of tone slanga1834 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 47 Let some wit call out in a slang tone,—‘the gallows!’ and a peal of laughter would damn the play. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 58 A slang air..and the use of certain significant phrases..current in London. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxix. 263 The slang tone in which these words were uttered produced another burst of laughter. 3. a. Costers' slang. Of weights and measures: Short, defective. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > deficient (of measure or weight) slang1819 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang weights or measures, unjust, or defective ones. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 The slang quart is a pint and a half. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 The slang pint holds in some cases three-fourths of the just quantity. b. adv. So as to give short measure. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adverb] > so as to give short measure slang1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 He could always ‘work slang’ with a true measure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019). slangv. Brit. /slaŋ/, U.S. /slæŋ/ Etymology: < slang n.³ or slang adj., in various senses. colloquial or slang. 1. ? intransitive. To exhibit at a fair or market. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > exhibit [verb (intransitive)] to see, or show, the lions1782 slang1789 show1903 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 144 To exhibit any thing in a fair or market,..that's called slanging, and the exhibiter is called the slang cull. 2. a. transitive. To defraud, cheat. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 284 He slanged the dragsman,..which means that he sneaked away from the coach. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slang, to defraud a person of any part of his due, is called slanging him; also to cheat by false weights or measures, or other unfair means. b. intransitive (also with it). To employ cheating; to give short measure. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > defraud or swindle [verb (intransitive)] > give short measure or weight slang1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/2 So the men slangs it, and cries ‘2d. a pound’, and gives half-pound. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 474/2 What he's made by slanging, and what he's been fined. 3. intransitive. To utter, make use of, slang; to rail in abusive or vulgar language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (intransitive)] > abuse, scold, or wrangle chidec1175 to say or speak (a, no, etc.) villainy1303 scold1377 revilea1460 raila1470 fare1603 extirp1605 camp1606 callet1620 oblatrate1623 cample1628 objurgate1642 reprobate1698 slang1828 vituperate1856 to shoot one's mouth off1864 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xii. 105 We rowed, swore, slanged with a Christian meekness and forbearance. 1842 Ld. Houghton Let. 27 Nov. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. vii. 285 Having so furiously slanged against the wickedness of the war. 1868 W. R. Greg Lit. & Social Judgm. 141 Mr. Carlyle slangs like a blaspheming pagan; Mr. Kingsley like a denouncing prophet. 4. transitive. To abuse or scold violently. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] vilea1300 rebutc1330 revilea1393 arunt1399 stainc1450 brawl1474 vituper1484 rebalk1501 to call (rarely to speak) (all) to naught1542 rattle1542 vituperate1542 bedaub1570 beray1576 bespurt1579 wring1581 misuse1583 caperclaw1589 abuse1592 rail1592 exagitate1593 to shoot atc1595 belabour1596 to scour one's mouth on1598 bespurtle1604 conviciate1604 scandala1616 delitigate1623 betongue1639 bespatter1644 rant1647 palt1648 opprobriatea1657 pelt1658 proscind1659 inveigh1670 clapperclaw1692 blackguard1767 philippize1804 drub1811 foul-mouth1822 bullyrag1823 target1837 barge1841 to light on ——1842 slang1844 villainize1857 slangwhang1880 slam-bang1888 vituperize1894 bad-mouth1941 slag1958 zing1962 to dump on (occasionally all over)1967 1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. i. 5 He could..slang coal-heavers..better than anybody else in London. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. v. 19 His off-hand way of blowing up and slanging people. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xi. 314 He sent for the offender..and in the most slashing style ‘slanged’, even threatened him. Derivatives ˈslanging n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > action of using abuse ribaldyc1300 chiding1340 ribaldrya1400 revile1439 revilingc1475 vituperation1481 vituper1484 tongue-sore1542 oblatration?1552 thundering1564 wording1564 revilement1590 slabbery1596 invective1602 campling1660 bitching1706 slangwhanging1809 name-calling1819 slanging1856 rough tonguing1916 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] balec1220 ordurec1390 revile1439 brawlingc1440 railing1466 opprobry?a1475 revilingc1475 vituperation1481 vituper1484 vitupery1489 convicy1526 abusion?1530 blasphemation1533 pelta1540 oblatration?1552 words of mischief1555 abuse1559 inveighing1568 invection1590 revilement1590 invective1602 opprobration1623 invecture1633 thunder and lightning1638 raillery1669 rattlinga1677 blackguarding1742 pillory1770 slang1805 slangwhanging1809 bullyragging1820 slanging1856 bespattering1862 bespatterment1870 bad-mouthing1939 bad mouth1947 slagging1956 flak1968 verbal1970 handbagging1987 pelters1992 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 250 I feel certain that I could stand any..quantity of what is genteelly called ‘slanging’. 1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. iii. 58 I never had such a slanging in my life! 1895 Athenæum 7 Sept. 316/3 The slanging all round which they give one another. slanging match n. an exchange of abuse; a vituperative argument. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > abusive language > exchange of flite1768 slanging match1896 insult1964 bitchfest1985 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of ganglinga1387 altercation1410 brawla1500 heat1549 wranglea1555 brabble1566 paroxysm1578 wrangling1580 brangle1600 branglement1617 rixation1623 row1746 skimmington1753 mêlée1765 breeze1785 squeal1788 hash1789 rook1808 blow-up1809 blowout1825 scena1826 reerie1832 catfight1854 barney1855 wigs on the green1856 bull and cow1859 scrap1890 slanging match1896 snap1897 up-and-downer1927 brannigan1941 rhubarb1941 bitch fight1949 punch-up1958 shout-up1965 shouting match1970 1896 T. E. Taylor Running Blockade vi. 74 A slanging match went on between us, like that sometimes to be heard between two penny steamboat captains on the Thames. 1936 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Oct. 12/3 They [sc. the speeches] were made by the man who commands the highest authority and the greatest power in all the Reich, and they provoked an international slanging match. 1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia xii. 243 The slanging-match in the newspapers. 1978 J. Porter Dead Easy for Dover xiv. 140 Mrs Vincent very sensibly decided not to get involved in a slanging match with Dover. Their views on unmarried mothers were poles apart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.¹1521n.²1610n.³1756n.⁴1819adj.adv.1758v.1789
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