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Engelsk substantiv: cant

1. cant (om kommunikasjon) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)buzzword


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkbunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality

2. cant (om ting) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)bank, camber


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkincline, side, slope

3. cant (om kommunikasjon) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThey don't speak our lingo.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)argot, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular


Mindre spesifikke uttrykknon-standard speech


Mere spesifikke uttrykkrhyming slang, street name


Samme anvendelse'hood, airhead, applesauce, arse, arsehole, ass, asshole, babe, baby, bad egg, baloney, bay window, besotted, big bucks, big money, bilgewater, bitch, bite, blind drunk, blotto, blowjob, Boche, boffin, boloney, bolshy, bosh, bun-fight, bundle, bunfight, bunghole, bunk off, burnup, butch, butch, buy it, caff, can-do, cert, Chinaman, chink, chuck, clean, cock sucking, cockeyed, codswallop, corker, corporation, crocked, dago, deck, dekko, dibs, dike, ditch, dreck, drool, drop-dead, dyke, feel, folderol, freaky, fuck, fucking, fuddled, gat, ginzo, give, good egg, gook, greaseball, grotty, Guinea, guvnor, hand job, heebie-jeebies, heist, honkey, honkie, honky, hood, hooey, hoof, humbug, Hun, hymie, Injun, jacking off, Jap, jerking off, Jerry, jitters, juice, juice, key, kike, Kraut, Krauthead, legs, loaded, mean, megabucks, Mickey Finn, nick, niff, Nip, nookie, nooky, nosh-up, old man, out-and-outer, paleface, pie-eyed, piece of ass, piece of tail, pile, pint-size, pint-sized, pip out, pissed, pixilated, plastered, play hooky, plum, plumb, pong, poor white trash, poppycock, pot, potbelly, power trip, red man, Redskin, rip-off, rod, roll in the hay, rubbish, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, schlock, schlockmeister, screaming meemies, screw, screwing, shag, shakedown, shakedown, sheeny, shlock, shlockmeister, shtup, sister, skin flick, skinful, slam-bang, slant-eye, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, some, soup-strainer, soused, sozzled, spic, spick, spik, square, square-bashing, squeeze, squiffy, stiff, straight, stroppy, stuff, stuff and nonsense, suit, swiz, taradiddle, tarradiddle, the shits, the trots, tight, tommyrot, toothbrush, tosh, trash, tripe, tripper, trumpery, tummy, twaddle, uncool, wank, wet, white trash, whitey, wish-wash, wog, wop, yid

4. cant (om kommunikasjon) insincere talk about religion or morals


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)pious platitude


Mindre spesifikke uttrykktalk, talking

5. cant (om gjenstand) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)bevel, chamfer


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkedge


Mere spesifikke uttrykksplay


Engelsk verb: cant

1. cant (om bevegelse) heel over


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe tower is tilting.
The ceiling is slanting.


Ord med samme betydning (synonymer)cant over, pitch, slant, tilt


AnvendelsesmønsterSomething ----s.
Somebody ----s something


Mindre spesifikke uttrykkmove


Mere spesifikke uttrykkcock









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