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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Enumerates slang words, provides quotations both to illustrate use and to date origins, cites other authorities, and applies usage labels. Included are slang and cant, colloquialisms, solecisms, catchphrases, nicknames, and vulgarisms.

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  • "New Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"@en
  • "New Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"
  • "Dictionary of slang and unconventional English"
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  • "Enumerates slang words, provides quotations both to illustrate use and to date origins, cites other authorities, and applies usage labels. Included are slang and cant, colloquialisms, solecisms, catchphrases, nicknames, and vulgarisms."@en
  • "Enumerates slang words, provides quotations both to illustrate use and to date origins, cites other authorities, and applies usage labels. Included are slang and cant, colloquialisms, solecisms, catchphrases, nicknames, and vulgarisms."
  • ""The Concise New Partridge" presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from "The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the "Concise" gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. "The Concise New Partridge" is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning - it's rude, it's delightful, and it's a prize for anyone with a love of language."@en
  • ""The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, this concise new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean - emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English - dating information for each headword New to this second edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years - Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture - New terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums Many entries now revised to include new dating, ensuring maximum accuracy of content"--"@en
  • ""The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, this concise new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean - emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English - dating information for each headword New to this second edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years - Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture - New terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums Many entries now revised to include new dating, ensuring maximum accuracy of content"--"

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  • "The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional english"
  • "The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"@en
  • "The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"
  • "The concise new partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"
  • "The Concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"
  • "The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"
  • "The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"@en
  • "The concise New Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"

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