Nadsat is a mode of speech used by the nadsat, members of the teen subculture in A Clockwork Orange.
It is basically English, with some transliterated words from Russian. It also contains influences from Cockney rhyming slang and the King James Bible.
The word nadsat itself is the suffix of Russian numerals from 11 to 19. The suffix slurs the Russian words for 'on ten'—for example, 'one-on-ten,' 'two-on-ten,' and so on—and thus forms an almost exact linguistic parallel to the English '-teen.' Some of the words are also almost childish English such as eggiweg (egg) and appy polly loggy (apology), as well as regular English slang sod and snuff it. The word like is often inserted arbitrarily into phrases.
Matt: WRONG
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