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slangy
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Word definitions for slangy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slangy \Slang"y\, a. Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang. [Written also slangey .]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, from slang (n.) + -y (2). Related: Slanginess . Slangular (1852) also was tried.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"
Usage examples of slangy.
But who was he, Enderby, to adapt a great tragedy to the limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players?
Zeldo and a couple of other slangy pizza-eating beards from America had laid claim to one end of Building 1 and set up their own little outpost of heavy metal music and novelty foam-rubber sledgehammers for pounding on their workstations when they got frustrated.
Thomas Pynchon uses names like Oedipa Maas and Pig Bodine (where the effect is slangy, jivey, cartoonish).