vernacular
1. vernacular (s)
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language. "a vernacular term". "vernacular speakers".
2. vernacular (n)
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language).
3. vernacular (n)
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
Words derived from vernacular
commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness, vernacular, slang
vernacular is an instance of
non-standard speech, non-standard speech
Word and things that fall within vernacular
street name, rhyming slang
Member of this domain - USAGE
clean, plum, plumb, drop-dead, give, buy it, pip out, bite, swiz, heist, rip-off, shakedown, power trip, ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup, blowjob, cock sucking, hand job, jacking off, jerking off, wank, dekko, square-bashing, shakedown, feel, hoof, chuck, ditch, bunk off, play hooky, bennie, Benzedrine, caff, cat, Caterpillar, deck, gat, rod, Mickey Finn, nick, dreck, schlock, shlock, cert, legs, cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff, soup-strainer, toothbrush, arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole, bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly, tummy, niff, pong, corker, hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle, applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash, skin flick, dibs, bun-fight, bunfight, burnup, nosh-up, hood, 'hood, paleface, poor white trash, white trash, honkey, honkie, honky, whitey, gook, slant-eye, Injun, red man, Redskin, hymie, kike, sheeny, yid, Chinaman, chink, dago, ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop, Jap, Nip, spic, spick, spik, Boche, Hun, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead, airhead, babe, baby, sister, bad egg, boffin, butch, dike, dyke, good egg, guvnor, old man, out-and-outer, schlockmeister, shlockmeister, squeeze, suit, tripper, baddie, villain, wog, juice, big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile, key, skinful, juice, the shits, the trots, heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies, bitch
Similar to
informal