slang
slang 英 [slæŋ] 美 [slæŋ]
n. 俚语；行话 adj. 俚语的 vi. 用粗话骂
进行时:slanging 过去式:slanged 过去分词:slanged 第三人称单数:slangs 名词复数:slangs
- Slang refers to a type of language that's too informal to use in certain situations. You can tell a word or phrase is slang when it becomes uncool to use it after a while — like "groovy" or "far out."
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- n. 俚语；行话
- adj. 俚语的
- vi. 用粗话骂
- vt. 用俚语说
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1. slang often goes in and out of fashion quickly.
俚语往往很快风行起来又很快不再风行了。
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2. He notices some slang that was headlined in the newspapers recently.
最近，他注意到有些俚语出现在了报纸的标题上。
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3. So the real etymology is that it appeared, evidently as slang, in around 1700.
真正的词源似乎是这样的：它作为俚语出现在1700年左右。
- slang (n.) 1756, "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves," later "jargon of a particular profession" (1801), of uncertain origin, the usual guess being that it is from a Scandinavian source, such as Norwegian slengenamn "nickname," slengja kjeften "to abuse with words," literally "to sling the jaw," related to Old Norse slyngva "to sling." But OED, while admitting "some approximation in sense," discounts this connection based on "date and early associations." Liberman also denies it, as well as any connection with French langue (or language or lingo). Rather, he derives it elaborately from an old slang word meaning "narrow piece of land," itself of obscure origin. Century Dictionary says "there is no evidence to establish a Gipsy origin." Sense of "very informal language characterized by vividness and novelty" first recorded 1818.
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