First, let's begin with you, Dana, so what is the lingoes (ph), where do they stand?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009] Reference
Men may learn strange lingoes to humour their fellow-men, but how can any dog be expected to understand. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
GRIFFIN: I don't, but Josh Levs, this is by design up there in D.C. They like to slip in these lingoes so no one knows what the heck they're saying. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2009] Reference
Every child suffering from warts usually passes through the stage of charms and lingoes which are popularly used to remove these disagreeable growths. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
The Doctor introduced me, with much affectionate effusion and many particulars concerning my family and early history, to the man of unearthly lingoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Finally the English officer, a great lanky fellow with his trouser leg half torn off and a bloody bandage round his knee, succeeded in wrenching the banner away, but the Frog officer, who was about four feet tall, grabbed an end of it, and they came stumbling down in my direction, yelling at each other in their respective lingoes, with their crews joining in. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
Siamese, Englishmen and Yanks, who negotiate and this interchange of wares manage to conduct the bargaining in their various lingoes by the aid of a polyglot dialect of their own, chuckling over the dollars and cash and cowries as they rake them in with the impression that they are getting the best of the deal, when all the time, perhaps, they are being cheated themselves!. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
We hardly see any efficacy in "bean-ie, bean-ie take this wart away," or any particular virtue in stealing mother's dishcloth, cutting it up into as many pieces as there are warts on the hand and rubbing each wart with a separate piece of the cloth; but you will find people in every town or village who will assure you that their warts were driven away by one of these charms or lingoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
"I'll bet you hablar those French and German lingoes like a native," he ventured. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Sunset] Reference
The patent is for communication between an accessory and a media player with multiple lingoes. From Wordnik.com. [Macsimum News] Reference
The young man's father was a consul; and he has half a dozen foreign lingoes stowed away in his brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference
If we face up to the facts about only two of our contemporary lingoes, we must admit that we've been multilingual for years. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1] Reference
RhoDislan English, in spite of the incursion of patois, lingoes, and dialects from around the world, obviously has triumphed. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
"How do I know any such thing -- that is, for a certainty -- while you keep cruising amongst so many lingoes, as Tom there says?". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Examples of accessory lingoes include a microphone lingo, a simple remote lingo, a display remote lingo, an RF transmitter lingo, and an extended interface lingo. From Wordnik.com. [Macsimum News] Reference
I had thought -- and had hoped -- that both these actor-created lingoes were happily obsolete; but in their full flower of perfection I now heard them here in London. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
That the requisite number of individuals well acquainted with some of the outlandish lingoes which had to be grappled with proved to be forthcoming, is a matter of surprise and a subject for congratulation. From Wordnik.com. [Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918] Reference
A very curious thing it was to watch that girl go in and out among the scoundrelly patrons of the Skull and Spectacles, listening to their devil's chatter in all the lingoes of earth, and yet in a kind of fashion keeping them at a distance. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie] Reference
'The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington,' while the leering rascals in the pilot coats and the flap-eared caps huddled together over their filthy tables, and swigged their strong drink and thumbed their greasy cards and swore horribly in all the lingoes of Babel. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie] Reference
'Cos there ain't any (blank) man atween' ere an '' ell as can talk the warious lingoes like me. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896] Reference
A big library of books, and some crazy kind of culture, and he spends all his off times reading things in French and German and other outlandish lingoes -- when he ain't writing plays and poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XVII] Reference
Jeromio understands all manner of lingoes, and would be likely to consort with any foreigners for filthy lucre: he has ever ventures of his own, and this is one. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Buccaneer A Tale] Reference
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