Professionalisms are words used in narrow groups bound by the same occupation, such as lab for ‘laboratory’, hypo for ‘hypodermic syringe’, a buster for ‘a bomb’, etc.
Jargonisms are words marked by their use within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic character, e.g. ‘a sucker’ — ‘a person who is easily deceived’.
Vulgarisms, i.e. coarse words that are not generally used in public, e.g. bloody, hell, damn, shut up, etc.
LEXICOGRAPHY:
Dictionary is a book listing words of a language with their meanings and often with data regarding pronunciation, usage and origin. They are divided into encyclopaedic (thing-books) and linguistic (word-books).
Dictionaries may be unilingual (explanatory), bilingual (translation) and multilingual (comparative).
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