Colloquialism

What is Colloquialism?


1.

a special use of a common word in a certain geographical region or a word/phrase particular to a region.

In western PA, people may use the colloquialism "red up your room" to tell a child to clean his or her bedroom.

See Lacy

2.

slang, a word or term that only a few people use, or that's not in common language.

I call it verbal jizm. you call it a colloquialism.

Much of urban language is composed of colloquialisms

3.

The vernacular.

Urban dictionary would be dead without colloquialisms

See slang, colloquial, colloquialism, vernacular


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