| 单词 | water language |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater language water language n. now historical and rare coarse language of the type associated with the watermen of London; cf. water-wit n. (b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups indenture Englisha1568 water language1702 jockeyism1802 slum1812 Polari1846 stable-language1856 scientificism1860 water-slang1860 Oxfordish1863 galley-slang1867 pitmatic1885 commercialese1910 legalese1911 academese1917 Hollywoodese1920 businessese1921 Hollywoodism1925 trade unionese1927 advertisingese1929 officese1935 sociologese1940 Whitehallese1940 Newspeak1949 patter1949 Pentagonese1950 educationese1958 computerese1960 managementese1961 spacespeak1963 computer-speak1968 techno-jargon1972 business-speak1973 Eurospeak1975 Euro-jargon1976 technospeak1976 doctorspeak1977 corporate-speak1978 medspeak1979 mellowspeak1979 technobabble1981 teenspeak1982 management-speak1986 codespeak1987 1702 Prerogative of Breeches 38 There was little to be heard from her but..Sallies of Water-language for the space of—let me see—above half a year. 1782 Crit. Rev. Dec. 446 An eminent lawyer, who being saluted on the Thames with some water-language, which even the frequenters of Billingsgate now despise, coolly replied, [etc.]. 1857 Gentleman's Mag. July 13 He could in his manner and language be as rude and ungentlemanly as a Billingsgate porter or a Lambeth market-gardener, giving ‘water-language’ on the Thames. 1972 J. Pudney Crossing London's River iv. 39 The Thames watermen were..notorious for what was known as ‘water language’. < as lemmas |
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