3. Think of some one you have known who has the gift of racy colloquial utterance.

For example, we have been speaking with colloquial freedom, sprinkling our discourse with shouldn't and won't; suddenly we become formal and say should not and will not.

Flabbergasted and higgledy-piggledy are "colloquial," while roseate and whilom are "literary."

(1) Soliloquy, loquacious, loquacity, colloquial, eloquent, obloquy, circumlocution, elocution; (2) magniloquent, grandiloquent, ventriloquism, interlocutor, locutory, allocution.

His dialect was the vilest and surliest form of the colloquial "Clear Speech.

We must, however, confine ourselves to a few colloquial extracts from the practical portion of the volume; as Flies on the Wandle, &c. Orn.

Though usually grave, and even aweful, in his deportment, he possessed uncommon and peculiar powers of wit and humour; he frequently indulged himself in colloquial pleasantry; and the heartiest merriment was often enjoyed in his company; with this great advantage, that as it was entirely free from any poisonous tincture of vice or impiety, it was salutary to those who shared in it.

Such a man, aided by the powerful assistants of person and manners, and no inconsiderable colloquial talents, Mrs. Wilson knew to be extremely dangerous as a companion to a youthful female heart; and as his visit was to extend to a couple of months, she resolved to reconnoitre the state of her pupil's opinion forthwith in reference to his merits.

It may not be till the War is over"an expression which has come into colloquial use as a synonym for the Greek Kalends.

He cautioned me, with entire gravity, to be punctilious in writing English; never to forget that I was a Scotchman, that English was a foreign tongue, and that if I attempted the colloquial, I should certainly be shamed: the remark was apposite, I suppose, in the days of David Hume.

"When I called upon Dr. Johnson next morning," says Boswell, "I found him highly satisfied with his colloquial prowess the preceding evening.

[Footnote 2: The cat is credited in our colloquial English expression with two more lives.

Indeed, I can recall but two words of that language which I could positively aver to have heard in colloquial use among them,poodare and schotte.

This is a colloquial and proverbial expression that has reference to those who do anything out of their usual line.

A passing remark is all that needs be given to the ignorant blunder of supposing that those who stand up for utility as the test of right and wrong, use the term in that restricted and merely colloquial sense in which utility is opposed to pleasure.

"At one time, while an associate of Sheridan, Erskine, Fox, &c., he affected, in conversation, to be brilliant, and so far succeeded, as to colloquial liveliness, that during their festive intercourse, according to the witty barrister's own admission, 'he fairly kept up at saddle-skirts' even with Curran.

"Sheridan enjoyed a distinguished reputation for colloquial wit.

This idiom is not merely colloquial: it is found in the writings of our best authors.

The inversion deceives no person, and it is almost more appropriate to the colloquial jocularity of the great Lexicographer's bombast than if the enunciation had been more strictly according to rule.

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The Subjunctive Mode.+The subjunctive is disappearing from colloquial speech, and the indicative form is used almost entirely.

In the sense of "sure" it is in colloquial, but not in literary, use. CONTINUAL, CONTINUOUS."Continual is used of frequently repeated acts, as, 'Continual dropping wears away a stone;' continuous, of uninterrupted action, as, 'the continuous flowing of a river.'" DEADLY, DEATHLY."Deathly, in the sense of 'resembling death,' as, 'She was deathly pale,' is preferable to deadly, since deadly also means 'inflicting death.'