Meanings
plural slangonyms
- rareA slang term that is a synonym.
camera obscura * a darkly comic slangonym for the anus
2012, Paul Convery, Inkhorn's Erotonomicon - An Advanced Sexual Vocabulary for Verbivores and Vulgarians, page 424 more examples
Based on the slangonym snow, referring to heroin and cocaine. In use since early 1920's.
1959, Jacob Edward Schmidt, Narcotics Lingo and Lore, page 7... slangonym for female genitalia. Often used to mean "clown around", "cut-up" was also a technique used by Naked Lunch author William Burroughs of rearranging the words of an existing text to make a new work.
1999, Time Pub. Ventures, Incorporated (publisher), Vibe - Volume 7, Issues 4-6, page 56That other vaginal slangonym, twat, though, expresses no more than resigned despair or disdain.
2011, Peter Silverton, Filthy English - The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday SwearingI hope you enjoyed that list of foul and derogatory "slangonyms."
2021, Lori Hardacker, Dating, What The F*ck?, page 29
Origin
Blend of slang + synonym or slang + -onym. First use appears c. 1959. See cite below.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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