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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - lingo

 
 

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Lingo

lingo
~ 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)
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1.
  (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 ...
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
2.
   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
4.
  1. пренебр. иностранный язык 2. неодобр. специальный малопонятный жаргон ...
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  noun; pl. -oes  1) специальный малопонятный жаргон; профессиональная фразеология  2) joc.; pejor. иностранный язык ...
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6.
  - 1660, possibly from Prov. lingo "language, tongue," from O.Prov. lenga, from L. lingua "tongue." ...
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