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slangular en · ADJ

Etymology

From slang + -ular.

Meanings

1. (archaic) slangy
   • Little Swills is treated on several hands. Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterises them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as "a rummy start." 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Our Dear Brother”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 105:
   • For the past eighteen months Captain Thompson has been studying "these institooshuns"; eagerly drinking in Americanisms, slangular and otherwise; and conducting himself as a would-be American playwright ought to do. 1886, Life, volume 7, page 192:

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