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. |
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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 Apperson army arse Baker Baumann beer blow blue Bootham School boots Bowen Brit C.J. Dennis chuck cock Cockney Daily Telegraph DCpp dead dial Dickens drink drunk earlier C.20 early elab English euph Ex sense fellow Franklyn Gerald Kersh girl Granville Grose Hence horse influenced Kylie Tennant late C.18-early later Leechman London low coll Manchon Mayhew military nautical coll naval Ned Ward nickname officers one’s orig Oxford OXFORD ER 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 sexual Shelta ship Slang soldiers someone sporting synon tailors term theatrical Vaux W.N. Glascock Ware Whence Winchester College woman word