colloquial

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Colloquial language, Dasani writes in pen, is “a regional dialect that is only spoken and understood by a group of people; includes slang.”

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021

It fulfills our yearning for “authenticity”: Colloquial speech sounds direct and unpremeditated.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

Blueskin; Colloquial term for a person recovered from a plague which left large patches of blue pigment irregularly distributed over the body.

From Pariah Planet by Leinster, Murray

The Angel World and The Mystic are of a similar kind; but his last work, The Age, a Colloquial Satire is on a mundane subject and in a simpler style.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Colloquial language uses the terms Midge and Gnat to describe the tiny insects which we often see dancing in a ray of sunlight.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander