slang = "slang expression"

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

This seems to be a speech error arising from a blend; the two blending sentences would be: "This is French slang for 'drunk'" +  "This is a French word for 'drunk'."

Gerald Cohen


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Message from Jonathan Lighter, Thu 8/7/2008 3:51 PM, wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM

Not in dictionaries but on many freshman themes:

1918 in Edwin James Tippett, Jr. Who Won the War? (Toledo, O.: Toledo Type-
Setting and Publishing, 1920) 147:"Zig-zag" is a French slang for "drunk."

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