slangular
English
Adjective
slangular (comparative more slangular, superlative most slangular)
- (archaic) slangy
- c.1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- Little Swills is treated on several hands. Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterises them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as "a rummy start."
- 1886, Life (volume 7, page 192)
- For the past eighteen months Captain Thompson has been studying "these institooshuns"; eagerly drinking in Americanisms, slangular and otherwise; and conducting himself as a would-be American playwright ought to do.
- c.1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House