argot

Noun

Meaning

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cant slang vernacular jargon patois lingo creole argo patter newspeak language speech talk tongue dialect

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Antonyms

standard sense formal quiet rhetoric silence

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Hypernyms

non-standard speech

Hyponyms

rhyming slang street name

Phrases with the word

pearly kings and queens argot early roman argot criminal argot

Anagrams

groat gator gotra RATOG

Examples

they don't speak our lingo Source: Internet

Author Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot extensively. citation He describes it in his 1862 novel Les Misérables as the language of the dark; at one point, he says, "What is argot; properly speaking? Source: Internet

Specific words can go from argot into common speech or the other way. Source: Internet

Examples "Piaf" is a Parisian argot word for “bird, sparrow ”. Source: Internet

But such complete secret languages are rare because the speakers usually have some public language in common, on which the argot is largely based. Source: Internet

Examples include "same difference", "jumbo shrimp", and "hot ice" (where "hot" means "stolen" and "ice" means "diamonds", in criminal argot ). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

argosol argosome argosy Argote argotic Argovia