Word: slanging
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Inventing hobbies of great men is an other O'Nolan pastime. Ardent biographers of the composer Handel were surprised to learn that their idol was such a close student of Parisian slang that he had written an authoritative work on the subject: Handel's L' Argot...
...Marine Corps Chevron at San Diego gathered and published a glossary of leatherneck slang heavily flavored with Chinese, Tagalog, pidgin English and plain Navy. Examples...
...Fear of the frightening depths and complexities of human emotions, fear of her own sentimentality drives her, as it drives Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...different words were used in the strips studied. Nearly 80% of them simple primary-school words. Only slightly more than 5% were slang, misspelled or onomatopoeic words (in comic magazines the proportion is some...
...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...