slangとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, related to Norwegian Nynorsk slengenamn (“nickname”), slengja kjeften (“to abuse verbally”, literally “to sling one's jaw”), related to Icelandic slengja (“to sling, throw, hurl”), Old Norse slyngva (“to sling”). Not believed to be connected with language or lingo.

名詞

slang (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 slangs)

1. Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
   • 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 26:

     She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes called slang.

   • 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v:

     English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair with slang.

2. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
3. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
   • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book I (Miss Brooke), page 172:

     "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang. / "Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity. / "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class." / "There is correct English: that is not slang." / "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

4. (countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
5. (countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
6. (India) A curse word.

同意語

• (jargon): vernacular, jargon, lingo, cant

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Slang (口語)
• → Dutch: slang
• → Hebrew: סְלֶנְג‎ (sleng)
• → Indonesian: slank

動詞

slang (三人称単数 現在形 slangs, 現在分詞 slanging, 過去形および過去分詞形 slanged)

1. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2007, p. 26,

     Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.

   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 130]:

     Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …

   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[1]:

     "If they had been a row of his favorite Pressmen he could not have slanged them worse."

参考

• Category:English slang

動詞

slang

1. (archaic) simple past tense of sling
   • 1836, Edward Bagnall, Saul and David:

     Before he slang the all-deciding stone […]

別の表記

• slanket

名詞

slang (複数形 slangs)

1. (UK, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
   • 1610, William Camden, Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, OCLC 1166778000:

     There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.

語源 4

Compare sling.

名詞

slang (複数形 slangs)

1. (UK, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
2. (UK, obsolete, slang) A counterfeit weight or measure.
3. (UK, obsolete, slang) A travelling show, or one of its performances.
4. (UK, obsolete, slang) A hawker's license.
5. (UK, obsolete, slang) A watchchain.

Further reading

• “slang” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “slang” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• slang at OneLook Dictionary Search

語源 5

The same as sling which is also used in this sense. The vowel exhibits the lowering of /ɪ/ before /ŋ/ distinguishing for African American Vernacular English, as in thang for thing, but the word has spread with this pronunciation outside the accents that exhibit this feature.

動詞

slang (三人称単数 現在形 slangs, 現在分詞 slanging, 過去形および過去分詞形 slanged)

1. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, MLE) To sell (especially illegal drugs).
   • 2014, Cdai (lyrics), “Bail Out”, performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai:

     Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop
     Just another fuckin day in that gangway slangin rocks

   • 2016, TG Millian (lyrics), “Call Me A Spartan”, performed by Harlem Spartans (Blanco, Zico, Bis, TG Millian, MizorMac):

     Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food)
     Cookin up grub
     Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh)
     Slang the crack or the black
     Put the light and dark on the move
     Gold and brown and cute
     Gyal love me and I love them too (too)

   • 2017, Digga D (lyrics), “Next Up?”, performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):

     Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling
     They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
     Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
     I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
     

   • 2019 October 18, “Feed' Em”‎^[2], performed by #SG Jibbzy, 1:17–1:23:

     Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cook
     He is whipping shit that we use to slang
     This fat prick wanna chat on YouTube
     still had to cheat to deny he’s gang

   Synonyms: sling, flog

アナグラム

• glans, langs