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vernacular

• (s) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • common parlance
  • a vernacular term
  • vernacular speakers
  • the vulgar tongue of the masses
  • the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
  vulgar, common,

Nouns

• (n) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
  • they don't speak our lingo
  argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, cant,
• (n) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

Synonyms

vulgar common argot jargon lingo patois slang cant

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