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slangonym en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of slang + synonym or slang + -onym. First use appears c. 1959. See cite below.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable, usually) A slang term that is also synonymous with another word or expression.
   • That other vaginal slangonym, twat, though, expresses no more than resigned despair or disdain. 2011, Peter Silverton, Filthy English - The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing:
   • camera obscura * a darkly comic slangonym for the anus 2012, Paul Convery, Inkhorn's Erotonomicon - An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians, page 42:
   • Based on the slangonym snow, referring to heroin and cocaine. In use since early 1920's. 1959, Jacob Edward Schmidt, Narcotics Lingo and Lore, page 7:
   • ... slangonym for female genitalia. Often used to mean "clown around", "cut-up" was also a technique used by Naked Lunch author William Burroughs of rearranging the words of an existing text to make a new work. 1999, Time Pub. Ventures, Incorporated (publisher), Vibe - Volume 7, Issues 4-6, page 56:
   • I hope you enjoyed that list of foul and derogatory "slangonyms." 2021, Lori Hardacker, Dating, What The F*ck?, page 29:

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