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Example sentences for: colloquially
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The office that carried out this plan was officially called the White House Office of Public Liaison--but was more colloquially known as the Office of Negro Affairs.
What a surprise to hear, first, an American commentator on a televised golf tourney describe a reverse-necked putter colloquially, and then to hear the Japanese broadcaster translate that description into a terse sentence or two ending with the expression “bassackawad putta.”
I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).
His official title will be "high representative" for European foreign and security policy, but according to the Financial Times of London, he is already colloquially known as "Mr.
..” Perhaps particularly where the noun and adjective are identical in form, if not function, colloquially a blunt noun is invented, such as Dutchman for German (n.)