Slangish

[HSS]

I was shocked to see there is no entry of "slangish" in dictionaries just a moment ago. I checked dozens of dictionaries, but none doesn't list it. Does that mean I should regard it as sub-standard? I've seen and heard it often used, and you get a lot of results returned on Google (but then again I know it doesn't necessarily mean it is an idiomatic word; there may be a lot of websites rendered by non-natives included). The word is straightforward, so maybe it is used as a coined word?

Hiro

 

[panjandrum]

What does it mean to you?

 

[HSS]

To me, it sounds like slangy, slang-like.... Do you use it?

 

[GDAN]

I've never heard nor used the word before. If I had to guess its meaning ,I would think that the one you gave is correct.
In regards to that word not being in your dictionary, that may be a good thing. It's bad enough that a made up word used by a cartoon character made it into some dictionaries.

 

[Nunty]

I have never heard "slangish". Where did you hear or see it?

 

[cyberpedant]

I've never seen nor heard this term. It looks to me like it might be a misprint for "Spanglish," a slang term for a mixture of Spanish and English.

 

[cyberpedant]

After a quick googling, I see that I am mistaken.
"Here you can post your ideas and your slangish questions...."
http://slangonline.com/d I
It does seem to be a recent coinage, possibly by the owner of the above-mentioned website.

 

[Cagey]

slangish gets at least 182 hits in a WR forum search, not counting the two posts in this thread. It appears in the foreign language forums, but also in this one. Here are a few examples:

copying someone for something
Re: shameful
Re: antonym of warm
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While these were posted by non-native speakers, there seems to be no problem in understanding the coinage. In the instances I saw, native speakers responded to the question without commenting on the word itself.

Added: Here is the earliest use in the EO forum, from April, 2005: Re: Lord of the Flies Essay.
The earliest post on SlangOnline.com seems to be in March of 2006.

I think the suffix -ish is sufficiently familiar that slangish would have been spontaneously coined in many places.

 

[MichaelW]

The slangonline website has a line

"Tonight on Slang, more of the Slangish idioms and expressions..."

So I assume it follows "Spanglish" and other formations from "Engl-ish" as if it were a sort of language.

 

[Cagey]

[....]
So I assume it follows "Spanglish" and other formations from "Engl-ish" as if it were a sort of language.

Yes, that is a good point. This is different from the way it is used in these forums, where I understand it to be an adjective meaning approximately "slang-like, tinged by slang".

 

[panjandrum]

slangish:
First recorded in 1813.
Somewhat slangy.
slangy:
First recorded in 1842.
Of language, etc.: Pertaining to, of the nature of, slang.
(OED)