Definition of Slanging

1. Verb. (present participle of slang) ¹

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Definition of Slanging

1. slang [v] - See also: slang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slanging

slanders
slandre
slane
slanes
slang
slang-whanger
slang-whangers
slanged
slanger
slangers
slangier
slangiest
slangily
slanginess
slanginesses
slanging (current term)
slanging match
slanging matches
slangings
slangish
slangous
slangrill
slangs
slanguage
slanguages
slanguist
slanguists
slangwhanger
slangwhangers
slangy

Literary usage of Slanging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of James Hardy Vauxby James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"SLANG, to defraud a person of any part of his due, is called slanging him ; also to cheat by false weights or measures, or other unfair means. ..."

2. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1823)
"To defraud a person of any part of his due, is called slanging him: also, ... slanging-DUES. When a man suspects that he has been curtailed of any portion ..."

3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"slanging (cant), explained by quotation. To exhibit anything in a fair or market, such as a tall man, or a cow with two heads, that's called slanging' and ..."

4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"There is no idea of anything underhand on the part of the traveller, yet the custom is called back-slanging. Badger, n. This English name has been ..."

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