roughtalk

Definitions

Rare form of rough talk.

form-of, rare, uncountable

Examples

“He was always welcome⟳ to play⟳ at their table, when they sat down for a few rounds of cards. No roughtalk was ever indulged in when Amos was their guest.”

“The new musical by Larry King and Peter Masterson has some catchy dance⟳ numbers by Tommy Tune⟳, music and one touching lyric by Carol Hall, passages of rib-tickling roughtalk, pretty and lively girls, a rather good cast⟳.”

“The play⟳ presents a kind of war of different languages: office jargon; franglais marketing jargon; old-fashioned academic language; new media slang; jazzmen’s roughtalk; salesmen’s smoothtalk; high-finance talk⟳, etc.”

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