verlan

noun
/vɛə(ɹ)ˈlɑːn/

Etymology

From French verlan, itself a verlan of à l'envers (“upside down or back to front”).

  1. borrowed from verlan

Definitions

  1. A type of backslang used in French, in which the order of the syllables or sounds of…

    A type of backslang used in French, in which the order of the syllables or sounds of words is changed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for verlan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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