A slangy expression. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a slangy expression. ,slangy speech. From Dictionary.com.
See, a.fortis, now you've got me having to ask: what's the "slangy" meaning of "shorties?". From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Shouts-Out--Because Who Doesn't Like a Shout-Out?] Reference
The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily — just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easilyjust the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house. From Wordnik.com. [Various Parties converging on the Sea] Reference
The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily -- just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
Wasn't his name a slangy Portuguese term for "boss"?. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
I mean that in the literal way, not the slangy way. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Shouts-Out--Because Who Doesn't Like a Shout-Out?] Reference
To be a little slangy, I must say it laid an egg with Bobby. From Wordnik.com. [Counsel to the President: A Memoir] Reference
"Not if he struck him for a hand-out," muttered the slangy Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
He tells the story as best he can, in his own slangy, cumbrous. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
He was even able to handle the show's slangy chatter — usually. From Wordnik.com. [Lost, in Translation: The Internet's Subtitle Underground] Reference
Flory could hear their slangy voices coming across the open grave. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
"Maybe she had reason for cutting her tow-rope," said the slangy boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
"Mild up, Boilvar!" yelled the slangy bird, as he fastened his beak in. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference
Pilots go by their "" call signs, '' their slangy radio identification. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Out Of The Sky] Reference
Fleur was NOT a flapper, NOT one of those slangy, ill-bred young females. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
"You win," she said with slangy effectiveness, then she added -- "this time.". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Since the rest of the article is not slangy, I don't think "random" is either. From Wordnik.com. [As if I didn't have enough to do ... - A Dress A Day] Reference
There is much stammering and "looks" and "here's the things" Good ol 'slangy Blair. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair interviewed by Katie Couric - live] Reference
Society nowadays, with their cigarette-cases, their bridge purses and their slangy talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
The slangy tone of the placards dotting the highway in the middle-of-nowhere township of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I always felt like JRW got more slangy and male the closer to character thought she got. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
Hubert's slangy praise was dearer to her than any polished compliment from another source. From Wordnik.com. [The First Soprano] Reference
His style too, influenced by his theme, is raised somewhat from his usual slangy expression. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Billy was always coming to me with pleasant news, told in his slangy New York boy vernacular. From Wordnik.com. [A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"] Reference
Billy was always coming to me with pleasant news, told in his slangy New-York boy vernacular. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
She lapsed into giria, the slangy talk that imitated the pidgin English of uneducated people. From Wordnik.com. [Ender's Game]
"That kid sister of yours is a wonder," said the slangy ones, and the others declared that Judith was a dear. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
His style is quick, nervous, often slangy; he is wonderfully dextrous in hitting just the right word or phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Though the boy's words were slangy, there was real sympathy in his tone and the girls liked him the better for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Her voice was very sweet, her unusually finished pronunciation and enunciation giving a curious effect to her slangy speech. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
Not that her experiences in these first few weeks of college were not wholly "up to sample," as the slangy Jennie Stone remarked. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
You must pardon my getting a little slangy, "replied Sylla, laughing;" but, dear me! when we come down to pedestrianism we can't help it. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
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