Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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white-shoe | No | Yes | No | No |
colloquialism | Yes | No | No | No |
white-shoe (noun) | colloquialism (noun) |
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a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
white-shoe (adjective) | colloquialism (adjective) |
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denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative |