(a.) Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
(3) In colloquial terms, senior ministers in the new government should have been having more cups of tea with the crossbench members in the Senate in the weeks and months after the election.
(4) This paper attempts a new departure both in German dialectology and in phonemic analysis: (i) It is based on an open corpus of spontaneous, colloquial speech.
(5) The Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire was modified for use amongst British patients by the substitution of colloquial expressions.
(6) For both thyroxine and triiodothyronine the component contribution of within-individual variation to the population-based variation (the latter also termed the 'reference interval', or colloquially the 'normal range') was small.
(7) We can end our nation’s domestic violence epidemic by properly funding crisis lines, legal centres, emergency accommodation, affordable long-term accommodation and prevention.” Thousands of Australians still turned away from homeless services Read more Labor introduced a private members’ bill earlier in the year to criminalise the sharing of private sexual imagery without the consent of the subject, a practice colloquially known as revenge porn.
(8) Emad Hajjaj, a popular Jordanian cartoonist, drew an elderly Palestinian woman by her sagging UN tent saying – in an untranslatable pun on the words “Charlie” and the colloquial Arabic “I have been” – that she had lived as a refugee for the 67 years since the creation of Israel in 1948.
(9) The media as a whole should be united in defending freedom of expression.” NewstrAid, known colloquially as “Old Ben”, was set up in 1839 to support newspaper vendors in London.
(10) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(11) Whereas in 37 of 51 patients a normal or almost normal colloquial speech could be demonstrated, 30 of 39 patients with cleft lip and palate showed a normal or almost normal realization of the test sentences.
(12) Comey made self-deprecating jokes and slipped into colloquialisms.
(13) He was studiedly colloquial – "You won't believe this, Jacqueline" – and cast himself as the rebel.
(14) Being friends with Irish people is almost a nostalgic thing – we can speak some Irish language, reminisce about Irish colloquialisms and talk about sports.
(15) Similar changes were also observed on acupuncture points CV17 (Shan Zhong), CV 22 (Tian Tu), Yin Tang (at an area just between the eyebrows: the pituitary gland representation area, colloquially known as the "third eye") and GV20(Bai Hui), the entire pericardium meridian & triple burner meridian, their acupuncture points, the adrenal glands, testes, ovaries and perineum, as well as along the entire spinal vertebrae, particularly on and above the 12th thoracic vertebra, medulla oblongata, pons, and the intestinal representation areas of the brain located just above and behind the upper ear.
(16) In his commentary, Robinson writes that Chaplin "can move without warning from the baldly colloquial to dazzling yet apparently effortless imagery, as when the crushed Calvero gazes 'wearily into the secretive river, gliding phantom-like in a life of its own … smiling satanically at him as it flecked myriad lights from the moon and from the lamps along the embankment'".
(17) When a physician performs unprofessional activity breaking the rules of his profession, which is colloquially interpreted as charlatanism, the term "malpractice" is used.
(18) He volunteered initially but within months had secured a permanent position in the West Wing, latterly as the President's aide – a role dubbed the "body man", or more colloquially "butt boy" in the US.
(19) The voice that Plath eventually created is indeed fresh, brazen and colloquial, but also sardonic and bitter, the story of a young woman's psychological disintegration and eventual – provisional – recovery.
(20) He might have said "we agree to disagree" or used some other flaccid political colloquialism for the truth – that to Gordon, this lady's views were bizarre – but he just said it like it was.
Geordie
Definition:
(n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(2) Alexander Lebedev's son Evgeny is the chairman of Independent Print, the holding company set up to buy the Independent titles, and its directors also include the editor of the Standard, Geordie Greig, who is the Lebedevs' UK consigliere.
(3) Geordie Greig, the Evening Standard editor, also denied that Sawiris was involved in the talks.
(4) The London Evening Standard distributed 850,000 free copies yesterday, 200,000 more than planned, as part of a promotion to mark a relaunch of the paper under new editor Geordie Greig and owner Alexander Lebedev.
(5) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
(6) Lebedev's philanthropic interests also extend to Britain, where he is friends with Geordie Greig, editor of Tatler, and other members of Britain's aristo-celebocracy.
(7) The first tranche of redundancies are expected "within weeks rather than months" after the new editor, Geordie Greig, and management have had time to make assessments and plan for the future.
(8) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(9) However, new Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig subsequently revealed he paid considerably more but declined to name the price.
(10) And all Geordie hope was extinguished when Krul beat away his shot only to be punished by Adebayor's stunning half-volley.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) Horse & Hound was down 6.4% year on year to 61,445 in the second half of 2008, while Tatler, which has just replaced the London Evening Standard-bound editor Geordie Greig with Catherine Ostler, was down 4.9% to 86,107.
(13) That said, the MoS editor, Geordie Greig, has a good record on helping the poor.
(14) "When the new editor [Geordie Greig] came in I went to talk to him about it and decided to stop."
(15) Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig is an enthusiastic proponent of the free model after taking the London paper free.
(16) Tatler editor Geordie Greig, a former Sunday Times journalist, had been lined up for the editorship of the paper, although he may be appointed to a more senior editorial role.
(17) The Children's Society Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year The Children's Society ran Geordie Magic , which saw a team of magicians engage with members of the public in a street fundraising campaign.
(18) I'm inclined to think it's the former but lot of fans assuming he's just behaving badly," writes depressed Geordie Oliver Lewis.
(19) The tycoon insists he has a "hands off" relationship with both titles, leaving their day-to-day management to their respective editors, Dmitry Muratov and Geordie Greig.
(20) "When we went four goals down I thought the house might come down, but in the end we sent 51,000 Geordies home relatively happy.