Definitions for lingoes

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lingoes lin·go

Spelling: [ling-goh]

IPA: /ˈlɪŋ goʊ/

Lingoes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in lingoes (egilnos).

Definitions for lingoes

noun

1. the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual:
2. language or speech, especially if strange or foreign.
3. lingoe.
4. a metal weight attached to the cords of a Jacquard harness, for lowering the warp threads after they have been raised and for keeping the harness cords taut.
5. the same object attached to a drawloom.

Origin of lingoes

1650-60; apparently alteration of lingua (franca); compare Polari lingo “language”

Examples for lingoes

There is no end of 'paddies' along this river, and I'm sure they cannot understand your lingo.

So I picked up a lot of the lingo from sitting and listening to them.

The men had all sorts of lingo and acronyms that they used to review the services of the women they procured erotic services from.

But Cunningham had to have you, because you know the Malay lingo.

I can talk to the men—well it is that I know their lingo sufficiently for that.

The “no-diet diet” lingo may sound trendy, but the idea has been around for decades.

She had curly hair and they would finger it and talk in their lingo.

To use the lingo he used, it would be a medical “procedural.”

She taught me the lingo and one or two other things; but what happened?

She may be disappointed about the false appropriation of such Twilight lingo.