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Lingo
lingo
(lingos) 1. People sometimes refer to a foreign language, especially one that they do not speak or understand, as a lingo. (INFORMAL) I don’t speak the lingo. N-COUNT: usu sing 2. A lingo is a range of words or a style of language which is used in a particular situation or by a particular group of people. (INFORMAL) In record-business lingo, that means he wanted to buy the rights to the song and market it. ...an author who writes in a lurid lingo, freely punctuated with crude expletives. N-UNCOUNT: also a N, usu with supp
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noun (plural ~es) Etymology: probably from Lingua Franca, language, tongue, from Occitan, from Latin lingua — more at tongue Date: 1660 strange or incomprehensible language or speech: as a. a foreign language b. the special vocabulary of a particular field of interest c. language characteristic of an individual ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -os or -oes) colloq. 1 a foreign language. 2 the vocabulary of a special subject or group of people. Etymology: prob. f. Port. lingoa f. L lingua tongue ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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noun; pl. -oes 1) специальный малопонятный жаргон; профессиональная фразеология 2) joc.; pejor. иностранный язык ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n C usually singular informal 1 a language, especially a foreign one (I'd like to go to Greece, but I don't speak the lingo.) 2 words used only by a group of people who do a particular job or activity (the estate agent's baffling lingo) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1660, possibly from Prov. lingo "language, tongue," from O.Prov. lenga, from L. lingua "tongue." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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