Been picking up on some of my niece's vocab...my favs are "nonsense" and "alrite"!
non·sense
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(nnsns, -sns)
n.
1. Words or signs having no intelligible meaning: a message that was nonsense until decoded.
2. Subject matter, behavior, or language that is foolish or absurd.
3. Extravagant foolishness or frivolity: a clown's exuberant nonsense.
4. Matter of little or no importance or usefulness: a chatty letter full of gossip and nonsense.
5. Insolent talk or behavior; impudence: wouldn't take any nonsense from the children.
adj.
Genetics Of or relating to a mutation in a structural gene that changes a nucleotide triplet into a stop codon, thus prematurely terminating the polypeptide chain during protein synthesis.
Adj.
1. alright - nonstandard usage
satisfactory - giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory"
Adv.
1. alright - without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion); "it's expensive all right"
all right
2. alright - an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
all right, fine, OK, very well
3. alright - in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right')
O.K., okay, all right
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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