colloquial
kuh-LOH-kwee-uladjMeaning used in ordinary, informal conversation
Memory hook COL-LOQU: talking WITH your friends. In class Dev says, “Good afternoon, Professor.” With his pals at the skate park, it’s “Hey, what’s up?” That everyday way of talking is colloquial.
“Gonna” is a colloquial way of saying “going to.”
In context The novel’s characters speak in a colloquial style, full of slang and half-finished sentences, just as real people talk at the kitchen table.
Similar informal, conversational, everyday, casual
Opposite formal, literary
From Latin colloquium, “conversation”: com (together) + loqui (to speak).