slang

slang
subs.
Use P. πομπεία, ἡ.

slang: Phr.: an epithet of military s., vocabulum militaribus facetiis inditum, Tac. A. 1, 23: to abuse in street s., maledicta ex trivio arripere, Cic. Mur. 6, 13: it may sometimes be expr. by low language: sordes verborum, Tac. Or. 21: vernaculorum dicta, Mart. 10, 3, 1 (q. v.): trivialia verba, Suet. Rhet. 6: proficiency in s. (?) dicacitas scurrilis et sordida, id. Vesp. 22.