This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
pseudologue
adventurist
chicaner
slangwhanger


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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SLANG-wang-uhr)

MEANING:

noun: One who uses insulting or bombastic language.

ETYMOLOGY:

From slang (abusive or bombastic language, a now-uncommon sense) + whanger (beater), from whang (to beat), a variant of thong. Earliest documented use: 1807.

NOTES:

When the argument is weak, turn up the volume. A slangwhanger doesn’t mince words. Other people, perhaps.

USAGE:

“To his critics [William Hazlitt] would always be ‘a slang-whanger’, who wished ‘to destroy the very foundations of modesty and decorum’.”
Arthur Krystal; Slang-Whanger; The New Yorker; May 18, 2009.

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