Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similarly, David Mamet's play is a sort of junk shop of language, and it too is forlornly eloquent. The speech of Mamet's three characters-the owner of the store and two neighborhood punks who hang out there-is an incrustation of street slang, non sequiturs, malapropisms and compulsive obscenity. The playwright revels a bit too much in this scatology and blasphemy. Delete the most common four-letter Anglo-Saxonism from the script and his drama might last only one hour instead of two. But Mamet has an infallible ear for the cadences of loneliness and fear...
...company holds assets of $300 million in rubber plantations and palm-oil industries on the Malay peninsula, yet it keeps its headquarters in Singapore and is registered in London. For years it had a reputation for mistreating and underpaying its workers, who bitterly dubbed the firm "Swine Bobby" (slang for pig feed) or "Slime Darby...
...Digger" is a slang term first used in the 1850s to describe a miner in the Australian gold fields. It was popular in World War I as a nickname for an Australian soldier, and today is sometimes employed as a generic name for any Australian...
...pitch was apparently convincing enough. Last week the Prime Minister and his People's National Party (P.N.P.) returned to power with 48 of 60 seats in the newly expanded Jamaican parliament, gaining 58% of the popular vote. Now Manley may find that more than "heavy manners"−slang for discipline−will be required to save the country from bankruptcy and bloodshed...
Most of the paintings have been horribly scratched by graffiti artists. Not all of them are twentieth century pranksters. Some were Byzantines themselves, airing their peeves about monastic life. This ancient writing, in fact, is of particular interest to Byzantine scholars for the peculiar contractions and, occasionally, outright slang that it employs...