"I know Everard will slang me dreadfully when he comes in if I let you go," Tom urged.

He can avoid the use of those pedantic terms which are really nothing but offensive and, fortunately, ephemeral scientific slang.

He proceeds to violent threats, and slangs his debtor roundly.

The combination gives an affluence of synonymes and a delicacy of discrimination such as no unmixed idiom can show. While you utterly shun slang, whether native-or foreign-born,(at present, by the way, our popular writers use far less slang than the English,)yet do not shrink from Americanisms, so they be good ones.