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Textual thesaurus for "vernacular"

(adj) common, vulgar

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


(noun) patois, cant, slang, argot, jargon, lingo

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

they don't speak our lingo