Colloquial Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Colloquial

Colloquial. Often used in (informal) conversation but not yet standard. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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who laid the rail adv. phr. As for tare, that issue has been in dispute since “who laid the rail.” [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. They always had a celebration every year when I was a kid. And us kids looked forward to that. For we could shoot fire crackers till who laid the rail. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 31, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. Well yes, there’s trucks setting there full of cold water heaters. I mean I got groundhogs running to who laid the rail from there. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 31, 2006)

who-laid-the-rail adv. phr. He said he was a Willkie man to who-laid-the-rail, but that unfortunately he was afflicted with asthma, which was responsible for the hissing. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who-laid-the-rail adv. phr. You can get out of that bed right now and go home, and consider yourself checked up to who-laid-the-rail. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who-laid-the-rail adv. phr. You have read columns of the heavyweight sensation of the west coast, Max Baer, a club fighter to who-laid-the-rail, two-fisted and willing, and with more color than any fighter of recent year. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who-laid-the-rail adv. phr. All the time them gals up there in the loft a-screaming and carrying on to who-laid-the-rail. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

Winterpeg n. Insingizi chose to spend a week in Winnipeg (dis)affectionately known to many in Canada as Winterpeg. We think they knew what those of us in Winnipeg know—cold weather leads to a passion for things to speed the winter along and music is very high on that list. [English Canada Colloquial] [full cite] (Feb. 19, 2006)

woobie n. In the same way that each member of the family chose something that represented them, and placed it in Chip’s casket. Adam and Holly and their children chose Connor’s pacifier and Janie’s “woobie.” [English United States Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 23, 2004)

wooby n. The resident villain, Huxley (Mandy Patinkin, suitably silly in a scenery-chewing turn), steals Elmo’s “wooby”—his word for the blanket—thus forcing the littlest Muppet on a perilous quest to retrieve it. [English United States Colloquial] [full cite] (Nov. 23, 2004)

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