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lingo

Syllables: lin·goUK/ˈlɪŋ.ɡəʊ̯//ˈlɪŋ.ɡoʊ̯/

lingo noun: language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.

Noun

lingo (countable and uncountable, plural lingos or lingoes)

  1. (informal) Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
    • [...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xv, page 47
    • "You see, ma'am, I can't divest myself of my professional lingo," observed Mr. Banks.1846, George W.M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, volume 1, London: George Vickers, page 327
  2. (Australian Aboriginal) An Aboriginal language.
    • The huntsman spoke Davey’s lingo.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77
    • Granny Ava was the link: the last heathen of the family to speak the lingo fluently, before the Church waltzed in and jammed the Lord's Prayer in Granny Ruth's twelve-year-old mouth instead.2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 105

Proper noun capitalized: Lingo

Lingo (plural Lingos)

  1. A surname.

lingo meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

lingo in Urdu

بڑبڑ, ناپسند بولی

lingo in Bengali

অপরিচিত ভাষা, পরিভাষা, অপভাষা

lingo in Malayalam

tongue, language, dialect
ഭാഷ, ഗ്രാമ്യഭാഷ, മ്ലിഷ്ടം, നിന്ദ്യമായ പരദേശിഭാഷ, മേമ്ലച്ഛം, ഭാഷാവിശേഷം
terminology, jargon, slang
സാങ്കേതികഭാഷ, സങ്കീർണ്ണഭാഷണം, പ്രത്യേക സാങ്കേതികശെെലി, മറുഭാഷ, മ്ലേച്ഛം, മ്ലേച്ഛാനക

lingo in Kannada

ವಿದೇಶೀ ಭಾಷೆ, ಪರಿಭಾಷೆ, ತಾಂತ್ರಿಕ ಭಾಷೆ, ಶಬ್ದಕೋಶ
More languagesFewer languages
lingo in Indonesian
lingo, bahasa lingo

Examples of lingo in a sentence

  • Q: Why didn't you ask them about X? A: No speako the lingo.
  • Football lingo is mumbo jumbo to me.
  • For those of you who aren't wholly up-to-date on the latest internet lingo, let me explain.

All 28 example sentences with lingo

Forms of lingo

Noun
plurallingos
plurallingoes
Proper noun
pluralLingos

Origin of lingo

From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix).

Scottish surname, probably altered from Lingoch, a parish of Carnbee. The placename could be from the noun ling (“heather”). More at Lingo.

Words formed from lingo

Words that rhyme with lingo

Questions about lingo

What does lingo mean?
Lingo means language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
What is lingo in Urdu?
Lingo in Urdu is بڑبڑ, ناپسند بولی. See Lingo meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is lingo?
Lingo can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lingo?
Lingo is pronounced /ˈlɪŋ.ɡəʊ̯/ (UK).
What is the plural of lingo?
The plural of lingo is lingos.

Words near lingo in the dictionary

  1. lingle
  2. lingles
  3. lingling-o
  4. lingling-os
  5. Lingmukha
  6. lingo
  7. Lingoa Geral
  8. lingoa wood
  9. lingoes
  10. lingonberries
  11. lingonberry

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lingo (page history and authors); Lingo (page history and authors); lingo (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Lingo (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lingo (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lingo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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