Slang ( page 336 ).
Questions.
1. What is a colloquialism? 2. What is slang in the primary and ordinary sense? in special senses? 3. What is a vulgarism? 4. What is cant in the sense here considered?
Examples.
There is a —— bred of vileness that is never redeemed; there is also a —— that is the vigorous utterance of uncultured wit, that fills a gap in the language and mounts ultimately to the highest places.
A —— is worse than ——, because it bears the ineffaceable stamp of ignorance.