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slangular

slangular adjective: slangy.

Adjective

slangular (comparative more slangular, superlative most slangular)

  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

Forms of slangular

comparativemore slangular
superlativemost slangular

Origin of slangular

From slang + -ular.

Questions about slangular

What does slangular mean?
Slangular means slangy.
What part of speech is slangular?
Slangular is an adjective.

Words near slangular in the dictionary

  1. slangsters
  2. slanguage
  3. slanguages
  4. slanguist
  5. slanguists
  6. slangular
  7. slangville
  8. slangwhang
  9. slangwhanged
  10. slangwhanger
  11. slangwhangers

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