| 单词 | argot |
| 例句 | We read somewhere that before Koreless, Roberts recorded under the name Nadsat Beats – Nadsat was the street argot made up by Anthony Burgess for the teenage characters in A Clockwork Orange. New band of the day ? No 972: Koreless 2011-02-22T15:02:58Z His book for “West Side Story” was notable for its stylized argot, which sounded like the scrappy talk of street toughs but was largely his own original patois. An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z In the original, Central American peasant Spanish collided with Mexican narco-gangster argot, underlining the difference between the migrants and those who exploit them. Books of The Times: ‘The Beast’ by Óscar Martínez Details Immigrant Trek 2013-12-17T21:43:42Z And swagger isn't part of the argot anymore. The Stones Come Back From Exile--Again 2010-05-07T20:19:00Z He works in an argot of amiable swing, punctuated by startling disruptions and occasional shots of seraphic beauty. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Also Swahili, some Indian dialects and the local Sicilian argot — an especially thick slurry of antigrammatical Italian slang. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z Leaders of the Democratic Party, eagerly chasing these semantic developments, have taken up the new argot, too. Perspective | The world is going to $#!+, but our language shouldn’t 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The characters’ robotic techno argot, intended to convey military expertise while camouflaging human element, is equally Orwellian. Review: ‘Eye in the Sky,’ Drone Precision vs. Human Failings 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Beyond that, he unobtrusively conveys the personality of the various characters, including the manipulative Lizzie, irresolute Frank, ponderous Fawn, patient Lucy and, most gloriously, a fractious Scot, speaker of high-Caledonian argot. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Between George Bush–world argot and fudging some vowels together at falafel stands, I lived in the Middle East just fine. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z It contains striving, colorful argot and too much confusion. Movie Review: ‘Desperate Endeavors,’ Directed by Salim Khassa 2012-09-07T00:24:06Z Chikwava invents a whole new argot for the narrator of this novel. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z For all the vulgarity and argot present in Journey, the most striking aspect of the book is the energy and industry involved. Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature 2013-06-15T11:01:00Z One predominant fictional argot of Facebook for teenagers would be breathlessness or emphatic speech. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z While these long motion-capture sequences crackle with thrilling technical argot and are pretty interesting in themselves, the real plot lies elsewhere. Review | Tom McCarthy’s ‘The Making of Incarnation’ is a mind-bending international caper 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z That’s at work here, too — an effort to gather up the fragments of a woman’s life and argot and make of it something whole. ‘My Broken Language’ Review: Piecing Together a Life of Many Dialects 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Burgess' tunes, informed by Beethoven as well as classic musicals like West Side Story, feature lyrics written in the Russian-influenced argot Burgess invented for his teenage anti-heroes. Clockwork Orange songs make debut 2012-06-29T05:50:34Z Words and etymology intrigue Annabelle; she wants to learn this argot. Theater Review: ‘A Respectable Widow,’ About an Unusual Friendship 2014-04-13T21:06:55Z Think about it: In most holiday product ads and all the coverage of the ensuing mayhem at the mall, consumerism is now shrouded in the argot of giving and subliminally presented as selfless sacrifice. Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z In the argot of A.I. engineers, a program “hallucinates” when it generates falsehoods. MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The writer developed a distinctive theatrical argot — an earthy, allusive, profuse expression that flows in banter, pensive monologues, storytelling sessions. Seattle Rep builds 25th-anniversary run of Wilson's 'Fences' with Tim Bond 2010-03-24T23:18:00Z The script was translated by Aya Ogawa, whose effort for “Enjoy” captured a certain colloquial hipster argot that managed to seem lovely and inarticulate at the same time. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z In the argot of the biz, Claudette was my “board muffin,” the assistant who helps the flyer find his way safely off the perch, as well as prepping trapezes and securing the lines. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z A bonny place, in the local argot, it’s also the birthplace of Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z I was, to use HR argot lifted from a recent meeting at my school’s career center, an “extremely motivated candidate” who was “highly suitable for the positions” I sought. Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z The store catered to many musicians, most of them black — B. B. King was a regular — and its inventory, in the argot of the day, was filled with way-out threads, man. Bernard Lansky, Clothier to Music Royalty, Dies at 85 2012-11-17T05:58:27Z Across most of “Modern Lore,” his fifth album as a leader, he bears a kind of likeness to Bill Frisell, the tart-toned guitarist whose argot is a pillowy blend of American roots music. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z And this is mixed with the language of the street, the argot of urban existence made larger than lifesize. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z We're in lively company, and West's genius for colloquial argot is as pungent as the lyrics in the vintage blues stompers and laments in Jmichael's vibrant score. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z That the three big races appropriate the argot and signifiers of the military is no coincidence. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z Ms. Gustern used bits of Indiana argot to make a point. She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z And then there’s his inborn ear for every shade of human babble, here a transcendent four-hander, there a screwball travelogue, everywhere argot and idiolect and argument. What if, Instead of the Internet, We Had Xenobots? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z This was where Joe learned Palenque, the African argot derived from Bantu that became one of the trademarks of his lyrics. Joe Arroyo obituary 2011-08-02T18:15:31Z But the plot is strictly formulaic stuff, and lovable though they may be, with their gritty argot and ripe accents, the characters have the broadly drawn outlines of cartoons. Theater Review: ‘The Jammer’ by Rolin Jones at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-01-23T23:19:07Z Mrs. Trump, a former model, who impressed the designer with her command of fashion argot, had her own ideas. The Man Who Dressed Melania Trump for the Ball 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z It did keep you on your toes, as did the pacy, heightened language rendered in youth argot or, in the case of the mother, sinuous Caribbean dialect charged with abrasive humour and abrasive sadness. Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:58Z It has an attentive ear for the language and mores of its different eras and the professional argot of its characters. Review: Big Dreams, Bright Ideas in ‘The Light Years’ 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Maye may be over 80, but to borrow the argot of grizzled show business pundits on a talent search, “this thrush is going places.” Music Review | Marilyn Maye: Optimism to Pierce Any and All Winter Blues 2010-03-04T22:01:00Z At the same time, Brandon, who occasionally narrates the film, raps his story in a hard-boiled hip-hop argot. Review: In ‘Kicks,’ the Promise (and Perils) of Those Air Jordans 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Were this just Lieutenant Calley speaking the word would not carry much meaning, but the word is from the argot of the American soldier in Vietnam. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z As on past albums, Birgisson uses a mixture of Icelandic and made-up words, a strange and beguiling argot they call Hopelandic. The Dark and Dreamy Rock of Sigur Rós 2013-06-18T15:18:52Z But even here — under a tangle of rope and lace, designed by Rajha Shakiry, that seems to literalize the World Wide Web — the argot of social media invades. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The soundtrack: a mix of English, Spanish, hip-hop argot, Jamaican patois, Portuguese — or was that Papiamentu, Curaçao’s native Creole? With Cura?ao?s Music, You Can Hear the Cultural Mix 2012-03-16T21:28:10Z Its language is a seamless marriage of hip-hop argot and raw American history made startlingly alive; the music arranged for a sextet by Alex Lacamoire is flexible, undigitized hip-hop rock fusion. Music Review: ?Hamilton Mixtape,? by Lin-Manuel Miranda, at Allen Room 2012-01-12T23:43:05Z The quickest and most dramatic way to achieve this was by taking an over-familiar garment and, in the argot of the age, "subverting" it. Club rules: how London dressed up for the 80s 2013-06-22T07:00:12Z More important and more central in any discussion of smarm even than “Black Swan” is Upworthy, the website that’s amassed huge traffic with a maddening, strange house argot that aggregates “uplifting” or “inspiring” news-ish stories. In defense of Upworthy: Why viral uplift might actually be good for us 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z “The Redeemed” concludes Pears’s West Country Trilogy narrated by Keeble, a master of the argot and manner of speech of the region and whose reserved manner in general narrative opens doors to the past. The best audiobooks of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In the argot of the credit bureaus, tradelines are just another word for all the accounts listed on a credit report — credit cards, loans and mortgages are all tradelines. The High Cost of Bad Credit 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama. Review: If the Razzies included theater, 'Invincible’ would be one of 2022's big winners 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Regardless of the language, the United Nations has its own argot, too. UN General Assembly meeting of world leaders, by the numbers 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The object, known as 3C273 in the flavorless argot of astronomy, was 3 billion light years away, a good chunk of the way back to the Big Bang. Maarten Schmidt, Caltech astronomer who changed our understanding of the cosmos, dies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Greitens — taking refuge in literary argot — has responded that the ad is merely a “metaphor.” Opinion | Eric Greitens’s ‘RINO hunting’ ad shows the radicalization pipeline in the GOP 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The world of mainstream Democratic politics gives voice to these sentiments in a more familiar argot, one aimed at voters rather than activists. A Vanishing Word in Abortion Debate: ‘Women’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In the argot of the Park Service, they are interpretive rangers — or, as they like to put it, the fun rangers, not the gun rangers. On its 100th birthday, the Lincoln Memorial still beckons a nation divided He was pointing to the pandemic as proof that companies like his were genuinely dedicated to the cause, and not just indulging high-minded argot as a prophylactic against the redistribution of their wealth. C.E.O.s Were Our Heroes, at Least According to Them 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The school principal, who is fluent in the flowery, obfuscating argot resorted to when recommending racial spoils systems, says TJ “is a rich tapestry of heritages” but does not “reflect” the county’s “racial composition.” Opinion | Today’s anti-Asian racism usually disguises itself as ‘diversity’ 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The problem with that, of course, is that unpredictability — what is rather grandly known in the sport’s argot as competitive balance — is at least part of the secret of soccer’s appeal. Outrage About European Super League Is Muffled by Our Cheers 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z In the argot of the market, that means “real” or inflation-adjusted yields are negative. New Gold Rush Pushes Price to Record Highs 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Forbidding argot is prized; accessibility is viewed with suspicion. Economists must collaborate courageously 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It was an argot that allowed him to break reliance on the Aristotelian cosmology prized by the Catholic Church, and to forge a new, quantitative study of nature. Galileo’s story is always relevant 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Now he is leading a group, mocked within the government as “the Slim Suit crowd,” that is providing one more layer of confusion — and inane consultant argot — to the laggardly, disorganized response. Opinion | He Went to Jared 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z At the same time, hustle culture — the native argot of the small business owner — has arisen from the “personal responsibility” wing of society and has taken over the internet. The optimization trap: what you give up when you hustle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Crimp follows in this vein, using the cadences of street argot for the central, poetic, seduction. From first love to unfollowing – culture that sums up romance in 2020 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z So, with all the assurance of an entitled champion, he tapped the foot of the chair umpire, Damien Dumusois, and, to borrow from Australian argot, “gave him a serve”. Australian Open 2020: the tournament that tarnished tennis’s image | Kevin Mitchell 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Once they graduated to the line, they adopted the brassier, saltier argot that cooking in conditions of extreme heat and pressure seemed to require. My Life as a Child Chef 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z It was, in the argot of English soccer, a penalty all day long. The Disastrous Arrival of Video Replay in English Soccer 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z For upward of several hundred dollars a month, renters — “members’’ in WeWork argot — would not just be getting a place to work; they would be buying the camaraderie of conventional office life. Was WeWork Ever Going to Work? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Thunberg’s speech was similarly phrased in the contemporary argot pitched to the polarising force of social media’s algorithms, suffused with a contained rage. Greta Thunberg's 495-word UN speech points us to a future of hope – or despair 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “She spoke in the argot of our talk; she knew the whole gay underground, how gay people talked. We felt that she was one of us.” Marianne Williamson Wants Politics to Enter the New Age 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Even the distinctive accent and argot of East Los Angeles has roots there, according to ethnolinguists. For Mexican Americans, El Paso is a beacon. That makes racist massacre more devastating 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Were it to be more routine to “tube” an opponent – as the argot has it – the game would certainly move up a notch as entertainment. Unlike McEnroe, Nick Kyrgios lacks the trophies to validate his attitude | Kevin Mitchell 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z He researched this argot tirelessly, filling notebooks with expressions overheard in bars, at poker games, and elsewhere. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z And that retro swagger is boosted by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire here, reflecting the argot of Trump’s America. Opinion | The Trump Vibe Spreads Down Under 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Having learned to code-switch between the fusty Dutch of the courtroom and the richly accented argot of her youth, she found it effortless to connect with the hardscrabble relatives of her criminal clientele. How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The younger generation Marlowe encounters has no truck with the street argot he once rapped in so freely. Lawrence Osborne does Raymond Chandler quite well, thank you 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Instead of a clubhouse on the beach, there’s a virtual global juvenile hall, where kids gather, invent an argot, adopt alter egos, and shoot one another down. How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z If Mr. Percoco, the governor’s former aide and family friend, is convicted of charges that he took gobs of bribe money — ziti, in his “Sopranos”-inflected argot — it will reflect poorly on Mr. Cuomo. Opinion | No Matter the Verdict, Corruption Trial Taints Cuomo 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Those unfamiliar with creoles, thinking them mere patois, argot or vernacular, are missing a glorious display of the ingenuity of those speakers who turned old languages into something brilliantly new. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z By contrast, Mr. Parra preferred street argot and dwelt on the small frustrations of put-upon office workers, alienated students, bag ladies and hoodlums. Nicanor Parra, Chile’s eminent poet and ‘anti-poet,’ dies at 103 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z In the perverse argot of deterrence theory, this is called counterforce vulnerability, with ‘vulnerability’ referring to the target’s nuclear weapons, not its population. Nuclear deterrence is a myth. And a lethal one at that 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Kaute helpfully includes ancillary photographs of which weapons were in vogue, a definition of gangster argot and a primer on evidence. At the Scene of the Crime, Camera in Hand 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z GiveDirectly may be a charity, but it speaks in the argot of Silicon Valley. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In particular, SSDI’s rules require that applicants be unable to engage in any significant paying work, or “substantial gainful activity,” in the program’s argot. Opinion | The Social Security disability program needs reform 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z There was no blow delivered or boost provided, in soccer’s sensationalist argot, no climactic moment that set one team on the road to glory and the other to ignominy. A Thrilling Tie Exposes the Premier League’s Flaw 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Inquire about how she handles children who haven’t fully learned how, as the argot goes, to use their words, take turns or share. How to Pick a Preschool in Less Than an Hour 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z In the argot of statistics, then, the distribution is U-shaped. Cultural evolution and the mutilation of women 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Those single, loose cigarettes are the ones often referred to in street argot as “loosies.” Robbers in the region are demanding cigarettes along with cash 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Up the stairs, past an open-air kitchen where the firm hosts private release events – “activations,” in their argot – is a rooftop lounge surveying mid Los Angeles. High art: how the creative world is helping legal weed rebrand itself 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The best thing about Lazarus – and this is not good for a musical – is Walsh’s script, which has clever lines among the Hamlet references and depression argot. Lazarus: ‘A jukebox musical for people who are too hip for We Will Rock You’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “The balance of power is now with firms like BlackRock because they have the ‘bid,’” said Mr. Perrotta of Tabb, using Wall Street argot to describe the buying power of large asset managers. At BlackRock, a Wall Street Rock Star’s $5 Trillion Comeback 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In the deadening argot of finance, Deutsche Bank’s Russian fiasco has frequently been called a “failure of controls.” Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Rooney’s patois is littered with such Faustian proclamations of his own mission statement, delivered in an argot that would be far more at home in a Marlowe play than a principal’s office: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ celebrates 30th anniversary at FerrisFest in Chicago 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Within Labour, the grainy left-wing argot that Corbyn speaks—of “industrial democracy” and the “propertied classes”—recalls a set of ideas that were last abroad in the Party at the turn of the nineteen-eighties. The Astonishing Rise of Jeremy Corbyn 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Often, adopters of argot have common enemies to defy or hide from: traditional conservative society; the law; the police. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The sky darkened and threatened a storm — a blow, in Arctic argot — and the men made camp. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z He discovered her singing for her supper on the streets of Montmartre, and she often sang in a Bellevilloise argot apparently not dissimilar to a Parisian version of old cockney. Edith Piaf at 100: the singer who defined Parisian courage 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Or in the new argot, add enhanced pleasure to the process of self-medication. A Point of View: The all-American drive to legalise marijuana - BBC News 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z As for potential economic development gains, LA24 couches them more in the promotional argot of civic boosters the world over. Would L.A. really benefit from another Olympics? 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Similarly, the patois used in hip-hop was originally used to defy the same enemies, the argot defined by clever puns, rapid rhyming couplets, blink-and-you-miss-it wordplay and don’t-give-a-toss attitude set to an insistent beat. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Cocktail hour was held around a koi pond, in an area bordered by the entombed remains of the cremated or, to borrow the argot of the funerary business, their “cremains.” Green-Wood Is the Brooklyn Cemetery With a Velvet Rope 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In the reassuring argot of the bureaucracy, confidential informants like Headley or Bulger are often referred to as “assets”—a term that implies not just control of the source but outright ownership. Whitey Bulger, Inside Man 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The result has the feel of a yarn, told in the authentic argot of a rock’n’roll “lifer” who never sold his soul to anything except perhaps the devil that haunted Robert Johnson. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z In the argot of the criminal complaint, Mayweather “did unlawfully use force or violence” upon Kaara Blackburn “by punching said Blackburn.” Floyd Mayweather Jr., a Champion in the Ring, Is Something Very Different Out of It 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z As fresh as argot can feel, it can also become redundant, incumbent or mainstream. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Silicon Valley nails the mannerisms of venture capitalists, from their inspirational argot to their khakis and reclaimed walnut wood furniture. On HBO's Silicon Valley, fiction isn't stranger than truth 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Like the best corporate argot, “optimize” is back-formation. A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Macdonald delights in the argot of falconry, so ancient and exclusive that it feels like the words Merlyn might have used in his spells. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Written in 1931 regarding what was known, in the argot of the time, as “primitive man,” Malinowski’s words nevertheless describe the typical American. Science, with a side order of humility 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Ginormous itself is argot, the portmanteau of gigantic and enormous to form a new blended word. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z He was wonderful at translating the patter of media sales-talk into the argot of real life, a skill that requires a lot of brain power. David Carr's Grand Caper 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z While you are right that, in airliner argot, the event is generally described as a “rollout,” I am hardly wrong to use “launch.” Selling Out U.S. Manufacturing: My $5,000 Charity Offer To Boeing's Staunchest Defender 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z To make things knottier still, heading is not a discrete part of soccer—it is deep in the art and the argot of the beautiful game. Soccer’s Concussion Crisis 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Banks promise the coco bondholders will get “bailed in”, to use the regulatory argot, in lieu of taxpayers. Mass conversion 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z For all those reasons, argot is my favourite part of language: it sits in the forbidden corners, between the gaps, underneath the rigidity of all the rules of grammar. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Using a microphone connected to his computer, Mr. Dager spoke to teammates in a quiet, steady voice, using an argot that would be incomprehensible to nongamers. Esports Set Video Gamers Fighting for Real Money in Virtual Contests 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Information on the unvaccinated kids—the “missing children” in the fieldworkers argot—is entered into the phones and uploaded to a central spreadsheet, allowing later vaccinators to target their efforts more precisely. Total War on Polio: The Battle in Pakistan 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z SunEdison would essentially place its solar projects into a publicly traded company, known in industry argot as a yieldco, in which it would own a big stake. Activist Investor Helps SunEdison Change Course 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Where The Onion once lampooned the “area man” argot of local newspapers, ClickHole spoofs the relentless exuberance of BuzzFeed’s nonsensical hierarchies and shrieking enticements. 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z His emails are written in the argot of the old-boys club. The Days of the Chief Executive Bro Are Numbered 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But financial argot can spin such tapestries by the yard. Essay: The Poetry of the Trading Floor, Going Beyond Bears and Bulls 2014-04-14T00:13:20Z All this would suggest an industry ripe for disruption, in the argot of Harvard Business School, where Oscar’s founders were trained. Health care in America: The geek guide to insurance 2014-04-03T14:57:37Z This outcome is known, in the macabre argot of the sport, as an “object strike.” ‘It’s More Like a Suicide Than a Sport’ 2013-07-26T11:00:02Z It has become part of the football argot, especially at the climax of a season. 10 things not everybody knows about Sir Alex Ferguson 2013-05-08T12:57:26Z In industry argot, Amazon "forked" Android; it spawned an incompatible branch in the Android source tree. Facebook Home: lockpicking Android for fun and profit 2013-04-09T11:25:00Z He articulates his direct approach to management in the punchy argot of his caste. Rupert Soames and Aggreko: Into the hurricane 2013-03-14T16:06:58Z In today's East End, the children of Somali and Bangladeshi immigrants speak with Cockney accents, but their slang is as likely to come from American jargon and Jamaican patois as Cockney argot. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z In the argot of the Ttwittersphere, the tweet was judged a #fail. E-diplomacy: Foreign policy in 140 characters 2012-07-17T23:28:47Z But physicists have learned to take the need for such fine-tuning, as the precision fiddling is known in the argot, as a sign that something important is missing from their picture of the world. The Higgs boson: Gotcha! 2012-07-05T15:28:41Z It was significant how a word of argot that meant a fraud of apparent brilliancy executed by an artist upon the public had extended itself into daily use. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-à-brac in that Parisian argot which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The second part of the book brims with mathematical formulas and arcane argot -- talk of vectors, intertemporal utility and strict quasiconvexity. Fed’s Poor Data, Not Greed, Drove Wall Street Off Cliff: Books 2012-02-16T05:24:00Z I can speak and write European in all its branches, including Swedish and Norwegian patois, and the argot used on the borders of Turkey and Greece. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z This is an argot known to a perversely impressive number of New York politicians. Gotham: Carl Kruger Confesses in Court to Taking Bribes 2011-12-21T03:19:08Z Such jargony, polysyllabic euphemisms, often using long Latinate words instead of short Anglo-Saxon ones, can quickly become an argot used by slippery-tongued, well-educated insiders to defend their privileges. Euphemisms: Making murder respectable 2011-12-15T16:00:44Z In the argot of Occupy Wall Street, a march or protest is called a direct action. The Occupy Wall Street Movement Plots a Comeback 2011-12-08T09:55:00Z The tales contain phrases in Germania, or thieves' argot, showing that the author closely observed his types of low life. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z To use the argot of urbanism, the protesters who installed themselves at McPherson Square on Oct. In McPherson Square, Occupy D.C. creates a vibrant brand of urbanism 2011-11-10T00:59:13Z "Oh, I don't know!" she answered with spirit, and an unconscious effect of argot, "In Green Hill, Miss Mavis, men is scarce!" Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z In the argot of Wall Street, broad economic growth projections are called top-down forecasts because they incorporate a wide range of macroeconomic factors, like manufacturing output and the unemployment rate. On Wall St., a Big Split on Outlook 2011-08-21T23:47:18Z His eyes surveyed her as if she were written in an argot or dialect which puzzled him; his hands drifted and moved before her as he smoked a cigarette. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z There's the idiosyncratic argot, with competitors known as "gurgitators", or – in keeping with many sports' fondness for militarist metaphors – "weapons of mass digestion". Why Major League Eating is a satire on sport 2011-07-06T21:59:01Z Thrasher galvanized skating enthusiasts, drew former skateboarders — or skaters, in the sport’s argot — back to it, and created new fans and participants. Eric Swenson, Co-Founder of Skateboarding Magazine, Dies at 64 2011-06-24T01:44:52Z But the tight play at first, known in umpire argot as a banger or a whacker, is the most consistent headache. Calling Them as They Hear ?Em 2011-06-10T20:28:00Z The poets wrote in classical Arabic or the casual argot of the Iraqi street, using sometimes florid metaphors and heaps of adjectives to inveigh against the American presence in Iraq. At War: Sadrist Verse: Pen and Sword Meet in Poetry Contest 2011-06-09T14:23:05Z "And silver plates and watches and rare liquors!" cried a third in knaves' argot. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z I had not a word of their language whatever it was, and I think it was a kind of Milesian argot. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z In the argot of the dressing room Wolves wanted it more. Rio Ferdinand's injury exposes fault line in Manchester United 2011-02-07T07:01:00Z He posts mostly in French with some English and Arabic, his messages crimped by Twitter’s maximum 140-character limit into an argot of shorthand, abbreviations and emoticons. Tunisia?s Inner Workings Emerge Online 2011-01-22T21:06:52Z Today's men of power — there are few women of power, despite Mao Zedong's principle that women "hold up half the sky" — are fluent in the argot of international diplomacy. Hu's State Visit: The Battle Between China's Fierce and Friendly Faces 2011-01-19T08:15:00Z C�line moaned aloud, with a bleating noise, and gabbled argot as she tidied the belongings which Mademoiselle had flung everywhere. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z For it was all refinement at the beginning, and wandered off into argot that was the very reverse. The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z Gen. Ralph O. Baker, said Wednesday, using the military argot for rocket or mortar attacks. Attacks on Baghdad Green Zone Surge 2010-09-29T18:59:00Z And yet, as the American combat mission — Operation Iraqi Freedom, in the Pentagon’s argot — officially ends this month, Iraq’s government still struggles to provide one of the most basic services. A Benchmark of Progress, Electrical Grid Fails Iraqis 2010-08-02T02:31:00Z In the argot of planetary scientists, the moon is "tidally locked" to Earth. When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010-07-06T04:00:00Z Linda held the purse strings, while Vince pulled the puppet stings, creating characters that roused the crowd—who "got over," in wrestling argot. The Smackdown Candidate 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z Thus Titan, in the argot of orbital mechanics, is Cassini’s “tour engine.” Finding a Way to Give a Saturn Explorer 7 More Years 2010-04-19T20:24:00Z The country is, in the argot of banking, too big to be allowed to fail. 2010-02-13T23:01:00Z Just now he leaned forward and addressed the boy in a conversational tone and an argot that savoured of the alley-playground. The Tempering “What now?” he grunted, using the local argot. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 I caught fragments of our crisp expressive argot. The Unveiling of Lhasa Theatrical argot for deadheads, Bishop; people who don't pay, but contribute criticisms of the show. H. R. The police had, on the telephone, confirmed the story of a man having given himself up, and the whole adventure was, in the argot of Fleet Street, "hot stuff." Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle I learnt French argot, the thieves' language, at the fountain-source, and studied political economy under Communists—some of them philosophers, some firebrands. Fragments of an Autobiography She smiled as portions of the argot the painter beside her was using, filtered into her consciousness. Thirty He is deeply learned in argot, or slang, the use of which is one of the naturalist instruments, and his works are therefore not useless as repertories of expressions to be avoided. A Short History of French Literature It was not until they had opened their young hearts with infantile abandon that the listener could guess from the incidental argot where these pocket-Ulysseses had travelled. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel When this self-proclaimed adventurer was really aroused he dropped the rough argot of the plains. The Bartlett Mystery My brother, with his three hundred a year and his French argot, made home unbearable and I thought of clearing out of it. Aliens The which, in Parisian argot, at once means everything and nothing. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Once in a while to my amusement I heard Silvia unconsciously adopting the Polydore argot. Our Next-Door Neighbors He said, in the deplorable argot of the hour: “Oh, I’m off all that social stuff.” The Crimson Tide A Novel But when his captor dryly responded in an equally pure argot: "Thanks, old man, the same to youse," he resolved to take all the rest in silence. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work They have no distinct language of their own, but speak a dialect of Rajpootana, which is disguised by slang or argot terms of their own that is unintelligible to other classes. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Studies of dialects of isolated groups, of the argot of social classes, of the technical terms of occupational groups, of the precise terminology of scientific groups suggest the wide range of concrete materials. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Accent and slang alone distinguish between them; the argot, however, is practically the same. The Maids of Paradise The wayfarer stood in the middle of the road, hurling imprecations in the choicest argot at Roger, while a waiter in a dirty apron and two seedy guests on the sidewalk joined him ardently. Juggernaut “Is it a joke you make there,” he asked, “or but your argot?” A Woman's Will At this alehouse they tarried for some time, and snacked the argot; then, after a parting glass, each went his way. The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man I had sauntered idly into the shop of one of those dealers in old curiosities—“bric-à-brac” as they say in that Parisian argot, so absolutely unintelligible elsewhere in France. Humorous Ghost Stories In this Musée de la Parole will be kept phonographic records of all current dialects in France, the argot of the Parisian lower classes, etc., etc. Royal Palaces and Parks of France To the noise of a strident chorus in choice argot, which I was told I should be thankful I did not understand, Bruant showed us into his café. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties "It is a kind of argot which belongs only to Americans," I answered in an undertone. Esmeralda I had entered, in an idle mood, the shop of one of those curiosity venders who are called marchands de bric-�-brac in that Parisian argot which is so perfectly unintelligible elsewhere in France. The Mummy's Foot The man's speech was not the argot he had assumed from his reading of crook stories to be the common utterance of the underworld. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! The dignity of Mr. Hagan's consultation manner had dropped from him, and he had relapsed into the gang argot with which police days had given him an intimate familiarity. The Tyranny of Weakness Those who have been raised to the p. 524business use this argot to such an extent that to one not accustomed to it they speak in an unknown tongue. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City So valuable for food and physics are our tricoloured Currants that the same argot may be justly paraphrased in their favour, with a well-merited eulogium of "Hurrah for the White, Red, Black!" Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure So I answered him in the mother argot at a venture, and he bit. The Lion of Petra The biter bites—it is his profession—and that ends the affair; the bitee is bitten, and, in the deplorable argot of the hour, "it is up to him." In Search of the Unknown In the legal argot, a right of way is a permission to cross property that has road frontage to reach fields, pasturage, wood lots, or the like which are otherwise without means of access. If You're Going to Live in the Country They have signs by which they may recognize each other, and a language, or argot, peculiar to themselves. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City I forgot that you lived in a world unsullied by such argot. Destiny They pass away the time in vehement gesticulation, and talking in a loud tone; so much of what they say is in argot, that the stranger will not find it easy to comprehend them. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business It arises to supply professional needs, and criminal argot springs up from exactly the same cause. Crime and Its Causes I noticed immediately that he did not speak tramp argot. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative No sensible man can envy Asylas, to whom the language of birds was as familiar as French argot to our young décadents. Prose Fancies I knew enough of their argot for conversation, and they knew enough of mine. The Road Hence, in French argot, beans, as causing wind, are called musiciens.—W. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 They have also a great command over the varieties of facial expression, are peculiarly dramatic, and can chatter the argot of the atelier as cleverly as the critic of the Gil Bias. Miscellanies Of course, my next discovery was that my case, so far from being peculiar, was a most common one, and I was quickly initiated into all the mysteries of inversion, with its freemasonry and 'argot.' Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Canaan. landscape, n. scene, scenery, view, prospect. language, n. speech, tongue, vernacular; dialect; idiom, phraseology, diction; argot, flash, slang, lingo, cant, jargon, gibberish; Volapuk, pasilaly, Esperanto. Putnam's Word Book In the argot of the blousards he is known as the Chevalier of the Hook. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 But in the outer salon the talk was to the last degree shoppy, and overflowed with the argot of the studios. In the Days of My Youth His simple French, innocent of argot, had a good country twang. A Volunteer Poilu One can stand in the middle of it and with his westerly ear catch the argot of Gotham and with his easterly all the dialects of Damascus. By Advice of Counsel It's no use, Agnes," she declared, though without entire sincerity; "I can't quite keep up with your thieves' argot—your slang, you know. Within the Law The gamin of Paris, who is the father of argot, long ago gave to the quarter of the city through which the Rue Mouffetard runs a name which clings to it tenaciously. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Like the Alsatia of old London, it has its own peculiar argot, and its own peculiar privileges. In the Days of My Youth The name "Claudine" startled her; and although she had had no comprehension of the argot of Happy Fear, the sense of a mysterious catastrophe oppressed her; she was sure that something horrible had happened. The Conquest of Canaan "I got you in the park," he said; and it is to be deduced that "got" was argot. The Flirt "If you like, I'll read it to you—or, rather, translate it from the thieves' argot Popinot complimented me by using." The Lone Wolf A Melodrama This was stock and stencil: the accustomed argot of street badinage of the period; and in such matters Georgie was an expert. The Magnificent Ambersons The thieves of the city have a language, or argot, peculiar to themselves. The Secrets of the Great City It has many slang expressions in it—thieves' argot—but their meaning has been interlined, in parentheses, by the prison authorities'— St. Louis, June 9th 1872. Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. I sketched "Lieutenant" A. in vivid terms, making use of certain choice expressions with which one of the "dirty Frenchmen" attached to the section, a Parisien, master of argot, had furnished me. The Enormous Room "In Paris I used the worst argot of the quarter, but I've always spoken straightforward English because the only slang I knew in my own tongue reminded me of a place I loathed." The Nest Builder The lively French staff caused a considerable revolution in Lysander Grove, which during several weeks rang with Parisian argot and Parisian fun. A Girl Among the Anarchists This language, which is still in use under the name of argot, or slang, had for the most part been borrowed from the jargon or slang of the lower orders. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period Otherwise he would not make his East End of London heroine talk an argot of which fifty per cent, is pure East Side Noo York. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917 He also learns French, German, Latin, Greek, and the argot of the public school! The Warriors It was a joy to the French people to see him at some of the small theatres, amusing himself and understanding all the sous-entendus and argot quite as well as they did. My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 His family had, however, remained in London even after it had grown rich and not retired to the country, like so many "warm men" to use the eighteenth century argot. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography But I do not mean the freshness of the cheek; and yet, in the argot do you not say freshness is cheek? Patty in Paris Properties In the argot of the stage the word "property" or "prop" means any article—aside from scenery—necessary for the proper mounting or presentation of a play. Writing for Vaudeville In order to heighten the effect, Zola deliberately wrote the whole of L'Assommoir in the argot of the streets, sparing nothing of its coarseness and nothing of its force. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; They talk the argot of evolution, while they no more understand the essence and the import of evolution than does a South Sea Islander or Sir Oliver Lodge understand the noumena of radio-activity. Revolution, and Other Essays Evolution in the argot of the streets works by a process of substitution. The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum He coins words; he is, at times, actually Borrowesque, and not only does he resort to colloquialisms and slang, but to dialect, cant, and even actual argot. Yama: the pit She constantly used the argot of French thieves, which was often difficult for the young Englishman to understand. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo Thieves' argot was, evidently, well understood here, for there was a shuffle in the dark, a muttered voice, and someone lit a candle. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Several men looked toward Thorpe, who, not understanding this argot of the camps, was a little bewildered. The Blazed Trail He even, swung one leg over a wiry limb, and there he clung, puttering sailors' argot, considering his sins, and roaring for help in his best fortissimo tone. Down the Mother Lode In the criminal argot a counterfeit American twenty-dollar gold piece is called a 'horse.' The Sleuth of St. James's Square He played, drank, talked argot, and cast off every shred of reserve. The Golden Dog When it came to word wizardry, he had Billy Sunday, master of slang and argot of one language, skinned by miles. On the Makaloa Mat Thieves have their argot, as with us, intelligible only to each other; and phrases constantly occur, even in refined conversation, the original of which can be traced infallibly to the kennel. Historic China, and other sketches I recognized at a glance, in this incomprehensible farrago, the argot of the true alchemist. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American And by “the peg,” in the argot, is meant the place where a free meal may be obtained. The People of the Abyss The vilest thoughts, uttered in the low argot of Paris, were much affected by them. The Golden Dog The world of fashion, too, has its argot, its slang; but that slang is called style. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life M. Le Grand, author of the piece, deigned to call upon the king of thieves, spoke some words of argot with him, and by way of conscience money gave him a hundred crowns. A Book of Scoundrels The 'argot' to which you doubtless refer was the invention of certain of your literary 'discoverers' who invaded the unknown wilds below Third avenue and put strange sounds into the mouths of the inhabitants. Whirligigs "Wisdom comes to one in a mountain cave as well as to one in the world of 'swells,' as I believe they are called in the argot." Options The glance of the latter, showed authority over his adept, in whom a practised eye would at once have recognized the joyous pupil of a painter, called in the argot of the studios a "rapin." A Start in Life You look to me as if you were perfectly acquainted with the argot of the heart. Father Goriot Gladly I went in and out of the women's cabins and listened to the argot of the men; my own ruling, administering, soldiering little lot. The Pool in the Desert Oh, well, the stir, or the pen, as they call it in convict argot, is a training school for philosophy. The Jacket (Star-Rover) The female of his kind came with him—a pale girl, shoddy and a little rouged; and they communicated in a nasal argot, mainly insolences and elisions. The Turmoil, a novel He was a natural linguist, and he kept notebooks, making a scientific study of the workers’ slang or argot, until he could talk quite intelligibly. The Strength of the Strong |
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