slangular

adj

slangular

adj

Etymology From slang + -ular.

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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