Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Language that is unintelligible or unfamiliar.
- n. The specialized vocabulary of a particular field or discipline: spoke to me in the lingo of fundamentalism. See Synonyms at dialect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Language; speech; especially, a peculiar kind of speech, more or less unintelligible; a dialect.
- n. A large leguminous tree, Pterocarpus Indicus, or its wood. See kiabooca-wood.
- n. The weight attached to the heddle-cord in a Jacquard loom.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Slang Language; speech; dialect.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
Etymologies
- Probably from Portuguese lingoa, from Latin lingua, language. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Grimm, in what he called the lingo of the country.”
“I'm just shocked to hear ... the new lingo from the governor, talking about Obamacare," Meek said.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Hebert: Florida Debates: Aesop Steals the Show
“Here's the official lingo from the Boykin Spaniel Society ...”
“While I take issue with that statement (see above), and I'm sure it's true in some cases, the real reason leaders should stop already with the sports lingo is much simpler: It's annoying, and it makes you look inauthentic.”
The Washington Post: Leaders need to 'pass' on the sports cliches
“For me, lingo is like acronyms; I find myself constantly looking things up to remind myself what they mean even though I've heard them and in some cases used them dozens of times.”
“I think your drug lingo is off, Julian. blotter and windowpane are two different preparations of acid.”
“The lingo is that Hog Heads are used in making tamales.”
“Possibly this is one of the most visionary sci-fi books I have ever read, and so chock full of controversial ideas (let alone nonlinear narrative, bizarre writing style, and strange futuristic pidgin lingo) that it surely has to make this list.”
MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present?
“The dialogue is so fast and full of quick-witted lingo from the 1930s that it is hard to keep up.”
Eric’s Top 10 Movies You Can Watch Over and Over Again » Scene-Stealers
“Sorry, but recently the word ‘gay’ means lame in lingo urban terms.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lingo’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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EN - autological words and phrases
Words and phrases expressing a property which they also possess themselves: "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, etc. If W means W AND W is (a) W, then W is an autological item. Very often but n...
noun, polysyllabic, abbrv., word, common, English, lovely, sesquipedalian, heterological, short, term, terminus technicus and 63 more...
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EN - trendy lifestyle words
private, tenacious, vogue, hoard, landscape, extravaganza, besiege, eatery, wrest, refurbish, enticing, breakout and 24 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3027 more... -
nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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words I love
uncouth, milquetoast, clusterfuck, salacious, usurp, harpoon, unsavoury, bulwark, legerdemain, qualm, quagmire, trumps and 209 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 874 more...
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Interesting New Mexico Place Names
This list is a blatant rip-off, and I don't care. :-P I fudged a bit, including names of some ghost towns that may or may not still exist. Because ghost towns are freakin' awesome.
tucumcari, angel fire, villanueva, white sands, cuba, moriarty, mountainair, jemez, loving, chimayó, hatch, shiprock and 100 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lingo.
muamor "Iron. I'm very iron-deficient. He relayed the information that this was somehow linked to the platelet problem caused by his illness. (Animals often pick up on the medical lingo their vets use in their presence.) And tell Father I'm sorry I'm such a burden. When I did, Chris's eyes filled with tears."
Amelia Kinkade: Straight from the horse's mouth. How to talk to animals and get answers. 2001. Mar 12, 2008