Synonyms of the word

lingo

• n. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or a dialect.

argot

• n. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
• n. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field,…

cant

• n. (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
• n. Shelta.
• n. (uncountable, pejorative) Empty, hypocritical talk.
• n. (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
• n. (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some…
• n. (obsolete) A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
• v. (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
• v. (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
• v. (intransitive) To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
• v. (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
• v. (obsolete) To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
• n. (obsolete) Side, edge, corner, niche.
• n. Slope, the angle at which something is set.
• n. A corner (of a building).
• n. An outer or external angle.
• n. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
• n. A movement or throw that overturns something.
• n. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias…
• n. (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
• n. A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
• n. (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
• v. (transitive) To set (something) at an angle.
• v. (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
• v. (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
• v. (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
• v. (transitive) To divide or parcel out.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) lively, lusty.

jargon

• n. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
• n. (countable) Language characteristic of a particular group.
• n. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
• v. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
• n. A variety of zircon.

patois

• n. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
• n. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
• n. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
• n. Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican Creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also…
• n. Jargon or cant.

slang

• n. Language outside of conventional usage.
• n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
• n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those…
• v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

vernacular

• n. The language of a people or a national language.
• n. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific…
• n. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
• adj. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
• adj. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
• adj. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
• adj. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.