Slang vs. Vernacular

Slangnoun

Language outside of conventional usage.

Slangnoun

Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

Slangnoun

The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.

Slangnoun

Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

Slangnoun

A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

Slangnoun

A counterfeit weight or measure.

Slangnoun

A travelling show, or one of its performances.

Slangnoun

A hawker's license.

Slangnoun

A watchchain.

Slangverb

To vocally abuse, or shout at.

Slangverb

to sell especially illegal drugs

Slang

imp. of Sling. Slung.

Slangnoun

Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

Slangnoun

A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

Slangnoun

Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.

Slangverb

To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

Slangnoun

informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar;

Slangnoun

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

Slangverb

use slang or vulgar language

Slangverb

fool or hoax;

Slangverb

abuse with coarse language

Slang

Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register. It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-groups prefer over the common vocabulary of a standard language in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.

Vernacularnoun

The language of a people or a national language.

Vernacularnoun

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Vernacularnoun

Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

Vernacularnoun

(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.

Vernacularadjective

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Vernacularadjective

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.

Vernacularadjective

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

Vernacularadjective

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

Vernacularadjective

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.

Vernacularnoun

The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.

Vernacularnoun

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

Vernacularnoun

the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

Vernacularadjective

being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;

Vernacularnoun

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

Vernacularnoun

the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity

Vernacularnoun

architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Vernacularadjective

(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.

Vernacularadjective

(of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region

Vernacularadjective

(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Vernacular

A vernacular or vernacular language refers to the language or dialect that is spoken by people that are inhabiting a particular country or region. The vernacular is typically the native language, normally spoken informally rather than written, and seen as of lower status than more codified forms.