#language

Cheers — literally 'good health.'

The invented teen argot of A Clockwork Orange, named from the Russian suffix '-nadtsat' (-teen).

The dialect of North East coal miners

Welsh for an Englishman — literally 'Saxon'.

To understand (Rasta reworking of the word)

Wordy, pompous, meaningless jargon — coined in 1944 by a fed-up congressman sick of bureaucratic babble.

Irish for a proper fool.

Fair play — to be fair, credit where it's due.

An old name for the canting tongue itself — the secret 'language' of thieves and vagabonds.

The name of the cant itself — and a verb meaning to talk — Britain's secret gay language.

Rastafarian 'dread talk' word system

Smooth-talking flattery; buttering someone up.

Well done, very good — Welsh school-report classic.

Profanity; foul talk.

Shut the door — yelled by every Welsh parent ever.

Korean address terms marking age and status.