#language

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

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

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.