Words similar to colloquial

Example sentences for: colloquial

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A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.
The problem here is in the use of business : in a definition, one would expect the literal sense, not the (more colloquial) sense of `affairs' as met with in mind your own business, none of your business , etc.
McCarthy excels in the laconic, colloquial dialogue of his Texas and New Mexico cowboys, and the untranslated lingo of his Mexican characters generally rings true as well.
The majority of Afrikaans items, however, are those which appear in written English sources, but rarely in colloquial South African English (even as spoken by Afrikaners).
Occasionally, the colloquial name, by itself, adds to the information given in the binomial: the platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinas ) is a (ducklike, bird-snouted) flatfoot.