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vernacular
nouns
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"
argot,
cant,
jargon,
lingo,
patois,
slang,
vernacular
the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
vernacular
is a type of (narrower)
speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
non-standard speech
adjectives
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"
common,
vernacular,
vulgar
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