lingos

May 27th, 2008 7: 56 am ET si si puede, OMG now she's down to stealing campaign lingos from Obama.

Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico 2008

The woman might only have mastered two or three lingos, one of them merely shopping-list Greek, but she was bound to have wheedled out of her lover a little apartment “to keep mother in”, and Calliopus would probably have his foolish name on the transfer deed.

Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

The family used some one of the little lingos - Icelandic, it might have been.

The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952

I hope you will be good honourable young gentlemen, and obey that good lady, your Mama; and also I hope you will learn your lessons, as a sight of learning is a good thing, tho 'I don't rightly know who speaks them lingos as Madame talks.

Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton

I don't hold with these foreign lingos, sir; there allers seems something sly and deceivin 'about em.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

Hi 'eard as' ow them Noo Zealanders wus comin ', an' I says ter meself as 'ow it' ud be another o 'these' ere lingos we'd 'av ter try an' parley.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

In ten languages if you'll find men talkin 'that many lingos.

Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

Specially when it's full of low-brow mechanics who speak in seven different lingos and subsist mainly on cut plug and garlic.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

And now, Professor, here is an opportunity for you to come out strong; you are acquainted with no end of these African lingos, are you not?

With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

We dodged under the narrow awnings of the shops, and bargained blindly in the most unmusical lingos.

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876