俚语,词源不详,可能来自 sling,扔,投掷,引申比喻义脏话,粗俗话。
[S]lang is a conscious offence against some conventional standard of propriety. A mere vulgarism is not slang, except when it is purposely adopted, and acquires an artificial currency, among some class of persons to whom it is not native. The other distinctive feature of slang is that it is neither part of the ordinary language, nor an attempt to supply its deficiencies. The slang word is a deliberate substitute for a word of the vernacular, just as the characters of a cipher are substitutes for the letters of the alphabet, or as a nickname is a substitute for a personal name. [Henry Bradley, from "Slang," in "Encyclopedia Britannica," 11th ed.]A word that ought to have survived is slangwhanger (1807, American English) "noisy or abusive talker or writer."
来自柯林斯例句
来自《简明英汉词典》
来自《简明英汉词典》
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》