cryptolanguage
English
Etymology
crypto- + language
Noun
cryptolanguage (plural cryptolanguages)
- (linguistics) A secret language.
- 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page vii:
- The history of cant lexicography has contributed in part to a widely held misconception about slang, namely, that slang is used as a secret language known only to the members of a select group: that slang is a crypto-language.