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

Colloquial tones, excited argument, wit, raillery, and all the lighter emotions, require for their expression, brilliancy rather than grace, and so are more fittingly interpreted by short quantities and radical stress.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Literary and Colloquial Style.—The art of writing demands, first and foremost, substitutions for the means of expression which speech alone possesses—in other words, for gestures, accent, intonation, and look.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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