Slurvian

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Slurvian

  1. (informal) A highly colloquial version of a language, in which many terms are carelessly slurred and run together.
    • 1961, Alex Madison Caughran, Lee Harrison Mountain, High School Reading: Book 1, page 170:
      And you've very probably overheard snatches of the same kind of language in the school corridors and the cafeteria. So Slurvian isn't new to you. You've been translating it almost all your life.