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DOG LATIN

Definition: DOG LATIN

DOG LATIN

1. Barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: DOG LATIN

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

DOG LATIN. Barbarous Latin, such as was formerly used by the lawyers in their pleadings. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Dog Latin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The phrase dog Latin refers to the creation of a a phrase or jargon in imitation of Latin, often by directly translating English words into Latin without conjugation or declination.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dog Latin."

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Synonyms within Context: DOG LATIN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Neologism

Dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English, chi-chi.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DOG LATIN

Specialty definitions using "DOG LATIN": APOTHECARY'SBOG LATINLaw LatinMacaronic Latin. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOG LATIN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dog latin name

4

dog latin

2
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Modern Translation: DOG LATIN

Language Translations for "DOG LATIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

развален латински език. (various references)

   

Czech

  

psisko. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

konyhalatinság. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Ladjyn vaccagh, Ladjin vaccagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ogday atinlay

   

Portuguese

  

latim que não presta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

испорченная латынь. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

žargon koji imitira latinski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

latinajo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kökslatin. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kötü latince, bozuk latince (pig latin). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOG LATIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-o-t"

-1 letter: antilog, doating, loading.

-2 letters: algoid, dalton, dating, dialog, diglot, doling, doting, galiot, ganoid, gitano, lading, ladino, latigo, latino, ligand, talion, tiglon, toling.

-3 letters: algid, algin, align, aloin, along, danio, dingo, doing, donga, dotal, giant, gland, glint, gloat, gonad, gonia, indol, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, nidal, nodal, notal, talon, tango, tidal.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-o-t"
 

+2 letters: delegation, desolating, gadolinite, intaglioed, modulating.

 

+3 letters: autoloading, decollating, defoliating, delegations, diphthongal, dislocating, dovetailing, gadolinites, goaltending, gradational, outdazzling, postlanding.

 

+4 letters: anthologized, astoundingly, boatbuilding, cladogenetic, deflagration, deglaciation, demodulating, depopulating, deregulation, desolatingly, diagnostical, edulcorating, fluoridating, ganglionated, goaltendings, longitudinal, longstanding.

 

+5 letters: boatbuildings, conglutinated, consolidating, deflagrations, deglaciations, degranulation, deontological, deregulations, domiciliating, gradationally, grandiloquent, hydroxylating, outstandingly, peptidoglycan, prostaglandin, waterflooding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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