Runyonese

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The language of the narrator in the stories of Damon Runyon: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, usually in the present tense and devoid of contractions.

Word forms

Runyonese

Etymology

From Runyon + -ese.

Related words

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