Word: slanging
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Drummers' Slang...
...Franciscans have always considered it drummers' slang of the commonest familiarity...
...Democrats here to be facing the music. There is no sense or manhood or sportsmanship in trying to find excuses and explanations, in whimpering that the people have been deceived or bought; that the organization of the Republicans is invincible; that what worn and stale stump-speech slang calls 'the interests' are too strong or our foes too cunning for us, or in raking about for stray scraps of comfort or loose fragments of rainbow hopes here and there-mostly there. We have been beaten in two successive general elections by huge and increasing majorities. Either the people...
...sportive pomposity amuses Mr. Boyd enormously. Most of the time it amuses the reader. His greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...
...Gag?slang for "witticism" or "quip." Slang synonyms: "wisecrack," "nifty...