A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional EnglishThe definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers. |
Other editions - View all
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch ... Eric Partridge No preview available - 1984 |
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch ... Eric Partridge No preview available - 1984 |
Common terms and phrases
Abbr adopted ex anglicised Anglo-Irish Apperson army arse Baker Baumann beer blow blue Bootham School boots Bowen Brit C.J. Dennis cock Cockney current in 1970s D'Arcy Niland DCpp dead Dickens Dict drink drunk earlier C.20 early Egan's Grose elab English euph Ex sense fellow Franklyn Gerald Kersh girl Granville Hence horse Kylie Tennant late C.19-early later Leechman London low coll Manchon Mayhew military nautical coll naval Ned Ward nickname officers one's orig Oxford OXFORD ER P.G. Wodehouse Perhaps ex perhaps orig person Petch phrase police Powis prec prison prob pron quot'n Railway railwaymen's rare rhyming RN lowerdeck S.E. sense School Services Shelta ship Slang soldiers someone sporting synon tailors term theatrical Vaux Ware Whence Winchester College woman word