Slang vs. Vernacular: What's the Difference?

A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.

The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.

Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon

A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region

To use slang.

The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group

To use angry and abusive language

The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

To attack with abusive language; vituperate

Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.

Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.

Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language

Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.

The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.

Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.

(countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.

Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic

(countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.

Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.

(India) A curse word.

The language of a people or a national language.

Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

Language unique to a particular group of people.

A counterfeit weight or measure.

A language lacking standardization or a written form.

A travelling show, or one of its performances.

Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.

A hawker's license.

(architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles, not imported.

A watchchain.

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

To vocally abuse, or shout at.

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.

To sell especially illegal drugs.

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.

Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.

The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.

To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar;

The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;

Use slang or vulgar language

Fool or hoax;

Abuse with coarse language