Did you perchance mean one of these? Polaris, polar, polars
Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Polari To talk.
Etymologies
- From the Italian verb parlare (to talk). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Un documentario sulla “estinzione degli orsi polari è udibile in sottofondo nel film.””
“Spilled Oil: orsi polari e petrolio non vanno bene insieme.”
“If “contraries” are meant to be polari - ties and dualities then this finding of Aristotle is just as much a leitmotif in the natural philosophy of our century as it was in classical Greece.”
“De ce oare oamenii totusi isi accepta moartea, asa usor? cumva este o greseala de gandire comuna? vad milioane de oameni suparati pe fenomenul globalizarii, cer protectia ursilor polari sau a focilor in Canada mult mai insistent decat cercetare medicala pentru a supravietui mai mult.”
“Much of their dialogue was in high-polari, and up-and-down the UK millions of families tucked in to their Sunday roast, unaware of much of what was being said.”
“The UK sisters have always used polari in their ceremonies (and for that matter in everyday use).”
“This is a polari version of the King James Bible, produced by the Manchester (UK) house of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
“It is, in fact, quite surprising how much polari has entered mainstream gay language (for example chicken or naff), and in recent years there has been a resurgence in interest in the language, similar to that in Gaelic - although Polari is arguably a living language.”
“Un documentario sulla "estinzione degli orsi polari è udibile in sottofondo nel film.”
“Subject: The Consequence of a Philosophy: Response to Dark Adept From: polari! tronix@SUMAX. SEATTLEU.EDU (David Daniel)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘polari’.
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Cryptolects
Names of secret/underground languages, where 'language' is defined loosely to include e.g. Polari: inspired by virtuallinguist.typepad.com/the_virtual_linguist/2008/10/secret-languages.html
igaws, awal-n-imdiazn, cant, polari, argot, shelta, banja�?ki, barallete, gaceria, fila dos arxinas, nyobo-kotoba, verlan and 17 more...
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Ready, set, guess this language...
Maly i mala hulali po polu i pili kakao.
erewhonian, betazoid, rohirric, vogon love poetry, enochian, ewokian, polish, wakese, glossolalia, maledicta, freedomese, igpay atinlay and 19 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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featured on detritus
posted to the blog detritus & tagged "words"
embiggen, defalcation, polari, omphalos, osculation, ishikoro, googleganger, bodegeschmack, chindogu, delurk, googie, sqround and 10 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Thanks, oroboros. It's interesting to see how many of these terms are still in use today and have made it across the Atlantic. :-) Sep 14, 2007
oroboros Polari (also seen as 'Palare') is a gay slang language, which has now almost died out. It was more common in the 1960's when gays had more need of a private slang. In researching Polari, it's difficult to find any written material about it as what little used to exist was out of print. However, in the last few years, more and more people have been finding out about it, and several web sites and magazine articles have been written.
For more info and a word list click here. Thanks to Chris Denning. Sep 14, 2007