“s rather old-fashioned word”(rugger)：已经过时的词汇(橄榄球)]； “a rude and offensive use”(old bag)[粗鲁无礼的用法(讨厌的丑婆子)]。

• It is claimed that COBUILD is written in "ordinary everyday English", which is not to say, of course, that it is "easy English".