Synonyms of the word

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.

abuse

• n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
• n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
• n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
• n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
• n. (now rare) Catachresis.
• n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
• n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
• v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
• v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

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,…

befool

• v. (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).

betray

• v. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously…
• v. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• v. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make…
• v. To disclose or discover, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
• v. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
• v. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
• v. To show or to indicate something not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

blackguard

• n. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
• v. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

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.

clapperclaw

• v. (obsolete) To fight and scratch.
• v. (obsolete) To abuse with words; to revile; to scold.

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

deceive

• v. To trick or mislead.

dupe

• n. A person who has been deceived.
• v. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
• n. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
• n. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
• n. (informal) A duplicate.
• v. (transitive) To duplicate.

fool

• n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
• n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
• n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
• n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
• n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
• v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
• v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

gull

• n. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
• n. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
• n. One easily cheated; a dupe.
• v. To deceive or cheat.
• v. (US, slang) To mislead.
• v. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

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.

lingo

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

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.

shout

• n. A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing…
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot;…
• n. (Britain, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
• n. (informal) A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV programme. (also shout…
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention,…
• v. (transitive) To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out.
• v. (colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
• v. (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

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.