VARDO formerly was Old Cant for a waggon" (The Slang Dictionary).
It was not necessary for the author of the Slang Dictionary to go to the banks of the Danube for the origin of a word which is in the mouths of all English Gipsies, and which was brought to England by their ancestors.
Something of this is implied in the slang word Pross, since it also means "to sponge upon a comrade," &c.
The author of the Slang Dictionary, in order to explain this word, goes as usual to the Wallachian Gipsies, for what he might have learned from the first tinker in the streets of London.
DICK, an English slang word for sight, or seeing, is purely Gipsy in its origin, and in common use by Rommanis over all the world.
In English slang it is applied, not only to highways, but also to houses.
I believe that it first made its appearance in English slang as covey, and was then pronounced cuvvy, being subsequently abbreviated into cove.
It is from a combination of these two meanings that the thieves' slang phrase "ringing the changes" arises; it denotes the various methods by which wrong change may be given or extracted, or counterfeit coin passed.
Slang was the language of the place, and doubtless the refreshments were mostly paid for with stolen money.
A frightfully technical story it was, full of engineer slang that was Greek to me, but I saw the younger man listen absorbed, his thin lips parting in a smile.
In short, to use a slang expression, I distinctly got away with it.
The "human document," as later slang has it, was in effect the only thing that interested him; and he was content to employ it in constructing human history.
In the work-rooms the conversation perpetually revolves around sexual subjects in the absence of the mistress or forewoman, and even in her presence the slang that prevails in the work-rooms leads to dialogues with a double meaning.
He was exposed by some of his students, who, to use a slang phrase, accused him of being a 'head-worker.
For example, high explosives in the early part of the war were called “black Marias,” that being the slang name for the English police patrol wagon.
The trench language is changing so quickly that I think the staff in the rear are unable to keep up to date, because they have recently issued an order to the effect that slang must not be used in official correspondence.
On the London and New York stock exchanges "bull" and "bear" are correlative technical slang terms.
No slang phrases, no low synonymes disfigured the language of King Zingary.
Their discourse was moreover garnished with the slang terms of thieves; they could not utter a sentence without interpolating a swell-mob phrase or a Newgate jest.
And now and then an interesting new addition to the Science slang appears on the page.
With remarkable quickness she had picked up slang danger signals by which one "assistant" can warn another of impending trouble.
If the people, on the contrary, rejoice in the slang and filthy innuendoes, and low dancing and sensational gymnastics of the music-hall, what are we to think?
But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying--nothing.
For the easy profanity, unconscious obscenity, and august slang of the back country scented the air like myall; whilst the aggregate repertory of bonâ fide anecdote and reminiscence was something worth while.
Lady Valeria had fallen into the fashionable slangand the current drivel.
Henley's Dictionary ofSlang and its Analogues gives as French synonyms of "loafer," chevalier de la loupe and loupeur.
Young man," says I severe, "I want you to lay off that slang stuff.
I fail to see," says Auntie, "how teaching him to use slang is at all necessary.
It requires a high degree of culture to use slang with elegance and effect; and we are yet very far from the Greek attainment.
I saw myself "laid out," a phrase that has come to have such a slang meaning that I smile as I write it.
WHAT is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
And what mattered it if she plunged deeper while she was taking a dive, as she expressed it in her language, which was a mixture of street slang and the elegant phraseology of the salon.
He held in horror this shameful half-marriage that the language of slang had baptized, as with a stain: Collage.
But it is easier to penetrate the mystery of Parisian slang than the mystery of Parisian music.
The chief sources of supply of the objectionable kind are the current slang of the street and the sensational newspaper.
Awful Few words among the many that go to make up the vocabulary of American slang have been in longer use and have a wider range than the word awful.
SLANG Slang is somewhat like chicken-pox or measles, very catching, and just as inevitable in its run; and very few of us escape it.
Strive to acquire a vocabulary so large and to cultivate a taste so fine that when a slang expression rises to your mind you can use it if you think it best fits the occasion, or substitute something better in its place.
This is an expression from the vocabulary of business converted into the slang of the street.
Yes, there's nothing mean about me," she returned, in slang rather older than she ordinarily used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
