Slang vs. Vernacular

Slang and Vernacular Definitions
Slang
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.
Vernacular
The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.
Slang
Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon
Thieves' slang.
Vernacular
A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region
The vernaculars of New York City.
Slang
To use slang.
Vernacular
The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group
In the legal vernacular.
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Slang
To use angry and abusive language
Persuaded the parties to quit slanging and come to the bargaining table.
Vernacular
The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.
Slang
To attack with abusive language; vituperate
"They slanged each other with every foul name they had learned from the age of three" (Virginia Henley).
Vernacular
Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.
Slang
Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
Vernacular
Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language
A vernacular poet.
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Slang
Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
Vernacular
Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.
Slang
The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.
Vernacular
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.
Slang
(countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
Vernacular
Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic
A vernacular disease.
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Slang
(countable) An item of slang; a slang word or expression.
Vernacular
Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.
Slang
(India) A curse word.
Vernacular
The language of a people or a national language.
A vernacular of the United States is English.
Slang
Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
Vernacular
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
Slang
A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
Vernacular
Language unique to a particular group of people.
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
Slang
A counterfeit weight or measure.
Vernacular
A language lacking standardization or a written form.
Slang
A travelling show, or one of its performances.
Vernacular
Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
Slang
A hawker's license.
Vernacular
(architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles, not imported.
Slang
A watchchain.
Vernacular
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Slang
To vocally abuse, or shout at.
Vernacular
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.
A vernacular disease
Slang
To sell especially illegal drugs.
Vernacular
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
Slang
Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
Vernacular
(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
Slang
A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
Vernacular
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.
His skill in the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.
Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.
Slang
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.
Vernacular
The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.
Slang
To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs.
Vernacular
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
They don't speak our lingo
Slang
Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar;
Their speech was full of slang expressions
Vernacular
The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
Slang
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
They don't speak our lingo
Vernacular
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
Common parlance
A vernacular term
Vernacular speakers
The vulgar tongue of the masses
The technical and vulgar names for an animal species
Slang
Use slang or vulgar language
Slang
Fool or hoax;
The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
You can't fool me!
Slang
Abuse with coarse language