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Definition of Slangs
1. slang [v] - See also: slang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slangs
Literary usage of Slangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"There are not half so many slangs as there was eighteen months ago. ... Matty's got
his slangs . . . now a slang means , among divers things, ..."
2. Edinburgh Records: The Burgh Accounts by Edinburgh (Scotland). (1899)
"... smyth, till thir twa slangs of irne werk, xxiiij stane, price of the stane of
maid werk xiiij'; summa is, . . xvj" xvj" Item, coft ane geist fra Robert ..."
3. London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and by Henry Mayhew (1851)
"There are not half so many slangs as there was eighteen months ago," said a ...
There's plenty of costers wouldn't use slangs at all, if people would give a ..."
4. The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland (1873)
"Matty 's got his slangs," observed Henry, as he inserted a ranya or osier-withy
into his basket, and deftly twined it'like a serpent to right and left, ..."
5. Cheshire Notes and Queries (1882)
"... ami at many a email farm there is yet to be found a pair of slangs, whicli
ero meJ in h:\y harvest. They are long poles sharpened at the ends. ..."
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