expression; back-formation; caconym†; barbarism.
archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.
corruption, missaying†, malapropism, antiphrasis†.
pun, paranomasia†, play upon words; word play &c (wit) 842; double-
entendre &c (ambiguity) 520 [Fr.]; palindrome, paragram†, anagram,
clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.
dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism,
regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism,
Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism†; Gypsy
lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk,
Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin, macaronics†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel;
babu English†, chi-chi.
figure of speech &c (metaphor) 521; byword.
colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.
substandard language, vernacular.
vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.
jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot;
St.
Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue,
Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.
pseudology†.
pseudonym &c (misnomer) 565; Mr.
So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em†, whatchacallim, what's his name;
thingummy†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].
neologist†, coiner of words.
V. coin words, coin a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize.
Adj. neologic†, neological†; archaic; obsolete &c (old) 124; colloquial;
Anglice†.