vernacular

1. A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) (synset 107171981)
   "they don't speak our lingo"
   domain member usage:

   • bite - a portion removed from the whole
   • swiz - British slang for a swindle
   • heist, rip-off - the act of stealing
   • shakedown - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
   • power trip - (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people
   • ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup - slang for sexual intercourse
   • blowjob, cock sucking - slang for fellatio
   • hand job, jacking off, jerking off, wank - slang for masturbation
   • dekko - British slang for a look
   • square-bashing - drill on a barracks square
   • shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place
   • caff - informal British term for a cafe
   • deck - street name for a packet of illegal drugs
   • gat, rod - a gangster's pistol
   • mickey finn - slang term for knockout drops
   • nick - (British slang) a prison
   • dreck, schlock, shlock - merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
   • cert - an absolute certainty
   • legs - staying power
   • soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang for a mustache
   • arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole - vulgar slang for anus
   • bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly, tummy - slang for a paunch
   • niff, pong - an unpleasant smell
   • corker - (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person
   • hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense - senseless talk
   • baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
   • applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash - nonsensical talk or writing
   • skin flick - a pornographic movie
   • dibs - a claim of rights
   • bun-fight, bunfight - (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion
   • burnup - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road
   • nosh-up - a large satisfying meal
   • hood - (slang) a neighborhood
   • 'hood - (slang) a neighborhood
   • poor white trash, white trash - (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
   • honkey, honkie, honky, whitey - (slang) offensive names for a White man
   • injun, red man, redskin - (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
   • hymie, kike, sheeny, yid - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
   • chinaman, chink - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
   • dago, ginzo, greaseball, guinea, wop - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
   • jap, nip - (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
   • spic, spick, spik - (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent
   • boche, hun, jerry, kraut, krauthead - offensive term for a person of German descent
   • airhead - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton
   • bad egg - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person
   • boffin - (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research
   • butch, dike, dyke - (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
   • good egg - (old-fashioned slang) a good person
   • guvnor - (British slang) boss
   • old man - (slang) boss
   • out-and-outer - someone who is excellent at something
   • schlockmeister, shlockmeister - (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
   • squeeze - (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend
   • suit - (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
   • tripper - (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations
   • wog - (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
   • juice - electric current
   • big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
   • key - a kilogram of a narcotic drug
   • skinful - a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk
   • juice - energetic vitality
   • the shits, the trots - obscene terms for diarrhea
   • heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies - extreme nervousness
   • bitch - an unpleasant difficulty
   • give - occur
   • buy it, pip out - be killed or die
   • feel - pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
   • hoof - dance in a professional capacity
   • chuck, ditch - throw away
   • bunk off, play hooky - play truant from work or school
   • square, straight - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
   • besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet - very drunk
   • can-do - marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done
   • freaky - strange and somewhat frightening
   • uncool - (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring
   • butch - (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance
   • grotty - very unpleasant or offensive
   • some - remarkable
   • mean - excellent
   • bolshy, stroppy - obstreperous
   • pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off - well below average height
   • slam-bang - violent and sudden and noisy
   • clean, plum, plumb - completely; used as intensifiers
   • drop-dead - extremely
   is a type of: non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
   subtypes:

   • street name - slang for something (especially for an illegal drug)
   • rhyming slang - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component
   same as: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang
2. The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) (synset 107171831)
   is a type of: non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community

1. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (synset 301049925)
   "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
   similar to: informal - used of spoken and written language
   same as: common, vulgar

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