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Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
To that end, the soapy spoof “Sylvanian Drama” works beautifully in its one-minute chunks but becomes its own slangy mindset after an hour.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2023
Throughout, the syntax is punchy and slangy, while the diction often grows brazenly recondite.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
These guys speak in slangy lingo, such as “Strike straight,” that reveals their need for a melded identity in their rebellious attitude toward life.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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