SLANGINESS

slanginess

(noun) casualness in use of language

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

slanginess (uncountable)

The state or condition of being slangy.

Source: Wiktionary


Slang"i*ness, n.

Definition: Quality of being slangy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

16 July 2024

STICKILY

(adverb) in a sticky viscid manner; “he felt the blood move stickily from his split scalp and trickle down his forehead”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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