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vernacular

English

  1. 🔊 being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
    “common parlance”
  2. 🔊 the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
  3. 🔊 a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
    “they don't speak our lingo”

Similar words

slang cant jargon lingo argot patois common vulgar babbittish philistine aboriginal accustomed ancient language argot austerity autochthonous average baldness bareness bourgeois campy candor cant classical language