locution

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If I may permit myself a vulgar locution, the green is in his eye.

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  1. noun A particular word, phrase, or expression, especially one that is used by a particular person or group.
  2. noun Style of speaking; phraseology.

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  • If I may be permitted to express my candid and charitable opinion of the difference between the two women, I shall have to use the old Quaker locution, and say that Miss Sawyer was a Methodist and likewise a Christian; Mrs. White was a Methodist, but I fear she was not likewise. —  The Hoosier Schoolmaster
  • That locution was only a thousand years old in teen-speak. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
  • These overdoses of locution are generally confined to the novel's first section, in which we see the young boy undergoing a traditional Kurdish rite-of-passage towards manhood, and then traveling to fight the Shah's army. —  Bookslut
  • Yet another odd locution: "Users of the unlicensed spectrum do not have to pay telecommunications carriers for air time ..." —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • "The locution - 'I want him to fail' - is not what you say the first week the man's been inaugurated," he said. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English locucion, from Old French locution, from Latin locūtiō, locūtiōn-, from locūtus, past participle of loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French locution = Provencal loqucio = Spanish locucion = Portuguese locução = Italian locuzione, from Latin locutio(n-), a speaking, from locutus, past participle of loqui, speak. Cf. allocution, elocution.
 

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/ləˈkjuʃən/
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