What Are Colloquial Words? (Answers)
WHAT ARE COLLOQUIAL WORDS – These words could be described similar to slang or words used to describe informal conversation.
Here are some examples:
- Ballpark – used to describe something close or accurate.
- Can you give me a ballpark of the price?
- Cattywampus – a crooked thing
- Her nail looks like a cattywampus and I do not want to go near it at all.
- Flake – a person who cancels plans regularly or the act of regularly canceling plans
- Peter is such a flake, it’s been the 2nd canceled plan this week.
- Raincheck – a promise to reschedule plans that had to be canceled
- I’m going to need to do a raincheck on our dinner tonight. Something came up.
- Ride shotgun – to sit in the front passenger seat of a car
- I always ride shotgun when I was a kid and my dad was driving me to school.
- Score – to get what you want
- I got this huge score on cheap items on the garage sale across the street.
- Trash – to destroy something
- Eva completely trashed the party we prepared because she had a tantrum.
Colloquial words differ on the language you are using and the culture of the certain community. For example, the Philippines have its own called “KOLOKYAL“. Here are some examples:
- Ay Hesus! – aysus!
- Mayroon – meron
- Dalawa – dalwa
- Diyan – dyan
- Kwarta – pera
- Nasaan – nasan
- Paano – pano
- Sa Akin – sakin
- Kailan – kelan
- Kamusta – musta
- Ganoon – ganun
- Puwede – pede
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