Example sentences for: argot

How can you use “argot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).

  • It is a very old argot influenced by many languages, including French, English, Italian, Greek, and Hebrew, and was spoken by the gypsies of Spain.

  • Some of these idioms are the pachuco dialect, Chicano Spanish, New Mexico colonial Spanish, south Texas vocabulary, caló, and the argot of the tirilones of El Paso.

  • Thirty-five wrote a Preface to The Argot (included by Simes as an appendix), and he makes some interesting observations about the kind of material he collected.

  • Thirty-five obviously feels that these terms which are not specific to the sub-group have assumed a special place in the `argot,' or are used intensively in the underworld or in prison.


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