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Word for the Day: ARGOT
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| April 27, 2021
| Red Badger
Posted on 04/27/2021 8:30:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group.
from The Century Dictionary. noun The conventional slang of a class, originally that of thieves and vagabonds, devised for purposes of disguise and concealment; cant; slang.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
noun The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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To: xsmommy; Louis Foxwell; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...
Word Pingy!........................
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posted on
04/27/2021 8:31:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/27/2021 8:33:42 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: Red Badger
noun A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. The cisgendered normative patriarchy engenders a reification of the praxis inherent in bourgeois privilege and its concomitant oppression of ideological Marxian or proto-Marxian theorists.
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posted on
04/27/2021 8:36:00 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
To: Red Badger
You won’t catch me eatin’ no esc-argot.
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posted on
04/27/2021 8:37:59 AM PDT
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
To: Red Badger
Sorry, thought you said Margot...
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posted on
04/27/2021 8:39:13 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: ClearCase_guy
You said a mouthful!..................
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posted on
04/27/2021 8:42:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
In the argot of American racism, “get a job” is an expression used by whites to keep minorities in their place and discourage them from executing their democratic right to vote.
To: Red Badger
After S killed Q, argot the hell out of there.
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:06:02 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: AndyJackson
I am not po!
Why?
Argot a job!..................
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:06:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
See synonyms for argot on Thesaurus.com
noun:
A specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification:
a Restoration play rich in thieves’ argot.
The special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group:
sociologists’ argot.
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:14:11 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
( We are alive! In spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021!)
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I went to the fresh Market and the potatoes were all soft and had eyes. I asked if they had any fresh ones.
No, said the clerk, that’s all argot..............
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:20:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
Argot is how pirates talk.
To: ClearCase_guy
The cisgendered normative patriarchy engenders a reification of the praxis inherent in bourgeois privilege and its concomitant oppression of ideological Marxian or proto-Marxian theorists.You wrote that too easily. Should it be you or I that is scared?
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:25:13 AM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
To: ConservativeInPA
HA! I’ve been tossing out versions of that for decades. I lived in Cambridge, MA for years and knew a lot of communists.They don’t talk like that, but they do write like that. It never really means anything.
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:31:51 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
To: Red Badger
Yea..... another movie thread; Jason and the Argonauts.
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:43:54 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: LastDayz
It’s Greek to me........................
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posted on
04/27/2021 9:45:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: Red Badger
Woke argot trends among the Godless effete.
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posted on
04/27/2021 10:28:33 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
To: Louis Foxwell
The language of tyranny..............
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posted on
04/27/2021 10:40:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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