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vernacular [a]
 
1)being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
    Synonyms :common vulgar 
    See Also: informal 
 
vernacular [n]
 
1)a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
    Synonyms :argot cant jargon lingo patois slang 
    See Also: non-standard_speech  slang  square  besotted  can-do  freaky  uncool  grotty  some  built  mean  bolshy  pint-size  slam-bang  clean  drop-dead  bite  heist  shakedown  square-bashing  shakedown  caff  deck  gat  dreck  cert  legs  niff  street_name  corker  hooey  baloney  applesauce  rhyming_slang  bun-fight  burnup  nosh-up  'hood  airhead  baby  bad_egg  boffin  good_egg  guvnor  old_man  out-and-outer  schlockmeister  squeeze  wog  juice  big_bucks  key  juice  heebie-jeebies  bitch  bumf  give  buy_it  feel  hoof  chuck  bunk_off 
 
2)the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
    Synonyms :
    See Also: non-standard_speech 
 



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