Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

expression; back-formation; caconym†; barbarism. archaism, black letter, monkish Latin. corruption, missaying†, malapropism, antiphrasis†. pun, paranomasia†, play upon words; word play &c (wit) 842; double- entendre &c (ambiguity) 520 [Fr.]; palindrome, paragram†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms. dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir. dog Latin, macaronics†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English†, chi-chi. figure of speech &c (metaphor) 521; byword. colloquialism, informal speech, informal language. substandard language, vernacular. vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity. jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang. pseudology†. pseudonym &c (misnomer) 565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.]. neologist†, coiner of words. V. coin words, coin a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize. Adj. neologic†, neological†; archaic; obsolete &c (old) 124; colloquial; Anglice†.