Lexicographical Neighbors of Slangish
Literary usage of Slangish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fraser's Magazine (1872)
"Frere supposes that on Cleon's first entrance the recognition of him by the
audience was aided by ' his habitual boisterous oath, and a slangish use of the ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1872)
"Frere supposes that on Cleon's first entrance the recognition of him by the
audience was aided by ' his habitual boisterous oath, and a slangish use of the ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... any slangish or peculiar forms of speech. A man who knew I was collecting
materials for this Glossary once told me he could give some information ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"Oh I wish he had, rayther,' she exclaimed with a toss of her head. You know that
extremely low slangish way of saying rayther to- everything. ..."
5. The Life and Times of Henry, Lord Brougham by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1871)
"... nicknamed " Caliban," to the subscription news-rooms, where wo met a company
of British worthies, and had a slangish conversation, adapted to the humor ..."
6. Civilized America by Thomas Colley Grattan (1859)
"A curious and amusing pamphlet published in Boston in 1846, is so strikingly
illustrative of this subject, and of the slashing, slangish, ..."
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