The definitive work on slang, this dictionary gives a fully documented account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all lovers of the English language.
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`Massive and endlessly fascinating.' - Paul Davies, Mail on Sunday
`Endlessly fascinating: quirkish, illuminating, and instructive. To browse in it is like eating peanuts: addictive to the extreme. If one must limit an appraisal of Partridge's torrential work to but one adjective, the choice is a breeze: stupendous.' - Leo Rosten, Encounter
`Paul Beale's eighth edition preserves the emphasis and lightly worn pedantry of earlier editions and enhances the work's usefulness with a single alphabetical listing, more systematic internal arrangement of entries, and of course more recent material.' - The Year's Work in English Studies --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
`Endlessly fascinating: quirkish, illuminating, and instructive. To browse in it is like eating peanuts: addictive to the extreme. If one must limit an appraisal of Partridge's torrential work to but one adjective, the choice is a breeze: stupendous.' - Leo Rosten, Encounter
`Paul Beale's eighth edition preserves the emphasis and lightly worn pedantry of earlier editions and enhances the work's usefulness with a single alphabetical listing, more systematic internal arrangement of entries, and of course more recent material.' - The Year's Work in English Studies --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Eric Honeywood Partridge renowned philologist, etymologist and lexicographer, dedicated his life to the study of language but it is for his work on slang, and in particular his flagship dictionary, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, that he is most widely remembered and admired.
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The most entertaining of dictionaries,
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Both informative and fun to read, the Dictionary contains both definitions and word history for ALL levels of colloquial English. Unlike other dictionaries of the sort, it includes even words that were colloquial or slang once. Before I read it I didn't realise that history of words could be so entertaining. E. Partridge has presented a hoard of entertaining information in an entertaining way. Even if you know all the English there is to know, the Dictionary is full of word stories you might still like to read. Do you know how the organ representing human courage over the centuries went all the way from heart to pluck, down to guts and below? I haven't checked the facts for a few years, but it still may be the largest collection of slang and colloquial terms for ANY slanguage
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You probably know some words that don't appear in this compendium, but not very many,
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I once had a hard copy of this book bought back in late 80's. It provided hours of entertainment then and I missed it greatly when I moved on and the book didn't.
Years later I find myself reunited with what seems like an old friend and we have some catching up to do. Do yourself a favour and buy a copy.
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foot regiment, brass hats, plain tales, circus company, vision splendid, betty martin, voces populi, narrow boat, merry wives, leading hand, bush week, weeping cross, bush life, mop fair, chaste maid, leading seaman, holy deadlock, lexical evidence, fighting services, tank corps, baby act, green envelopes, social work today, wooden shoes, hair court Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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foot regiment, brass hats, plain tales, circus company, vision splendid, betty martin, voces populi, narrow boat, merry wives, leading hand, bush week, weeping cross, bush life, mop fair, chaste maid, leading seaman, holy deadlock, lexical evidence, fighting services, tank corps, baby act, green envelopes, social work today, wooden shoes, hair court Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stock Exchange, Winchester College, Home Office, New Society, Daily Telegraph, Bill Truck, Oxford University, Sunday Times, The Times, New Statesman, New Canting Dict, Ned Ward, Bootham School, Daily News, Peter Sanders, Edgar Wallace, Egan's Grose, Red Daniells, Gerald Kersh, D'Arcy Niland, Julian Franklyn, Christ's Hospital, Herbert Hodge, Kylie Tennant, Jean Devanney New!
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