Dictionary of Unconventional English 17 pot
Dictionary of Unconventional English_6 pot
... very easy. Variation of EASY AS PIE AUSTRALIA, 1984 easy as damn it adjective very easy. Recorded by Partridge in the 1st edition of his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English and still ... by Partridge in the 1st edition of his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English UK, 1937 easy as kiss my eye adjective very easy. Euphemistic variation of EASY AS KISS...
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Dictionary of Unconventional English_11 pot
... interfering, to cease. Often as an imperative US, 1908 lay-off bet noun a hedging bet AUSTRALIA, 1966 lay of the day noun in horse racing, the best wager of the day AUSTRALIA, 1989 lay of the land noun ... smoking marijuana UK, 1999 league noun < out of your league used of anything or anyone of a superior quality; to be out of your league is to be of a lesser con- dition, o...
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Dictionary of Unconventional English_13 pot
... as a BIT OF THE OTHER.Partridge,inthe 1st edition of his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 1937, suggests that the unqualified term indicates ‘homosexuality as a criminal offence’ ... subtext of bitter irony UK, 1992 offie; offy noun an off-licence (a shop licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption off the premises) UK, 1977 off it adjective drug-intoxicated...
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Dictionary of Unconventional English_17 pot
... trainspotter, a planespotter, a bus-spotter or a similar type of hobbyist. Spotter’s Guides have been published by Mayflower Books of New York since 1979 US, 2003 spotters noun the eyes US, 1945 spotters ... . < tap the pot in bar dice games, to bet the total amount of the pot US, 1971 tap city noun when gambling, the position of being out of funds US, 1976 tap code noun a me...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "GRAMMATICAL AN ALYSIS BY COMPUTER OF THE LANCASTER OSLO/BERGEN (LOB) CORPUS OF BRITISH ENGLISH TEXTS." potx
... frequency of potential tag A followed by potential tag B divided by the frequency of A. Subsequently, it was changed to the frequency of A followed by B divided by the product of the frequency of ... University of Lancaster, England, to develop a suite of computer programs which provide a detailed grammatical analysis of the LOB corpus, a collection of about 1 millio...
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A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST potx
... economic dictionary of the middle east 24 Abdullah, bin Hussein, Emir (then King) of Jordan Great-grandfather of the present King of Jordan. Established by Great Britain as ruler of the newly ... base of Aden itself), it left it in the hands of the NLF, and in 1970 South Yemen was officially declared the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen. Aden-Abyan Islamic Army —s...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx
... utility of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework of the Alvey Programme of advanced ... arises of how to develop such a detailed and substantial word list. Our approach has been to make use of the machine-readable source of a published dictionary, namely the L...
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
... form of early American English. London usage reflected the linguistic patriotism of the English Renaissance and accepted forms from a variety of regional and social dialects in the development of ... vigorous conversational speech. THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH The fluid structure of Early Modern English underlies the formation of American English. Although the Grea...
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a dictionary of modern english ge sep 1987
... veracity admits of no question (but not / can admit of no question); A hypothesis admits by its nature of being disputed (but not he admits of being argued with) ; A jet air-liner does not admit of careless ... the niceties of English idiom, the foothold gained by the American I don't have at the expense of the English / haven't got (see DO 2), th...
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Dictionary of Unconventional English_3 docx
... tour of the Naval Academy US, 1963 can of coke noun a joke. Rhyming slang UK, 1998 can off verb to fall off NEW ZEALAND, 1984 can of gas noun a small butane torch used in the preparation of crack ... 2 an act of poor driving in which one vehicle cuts in front of another UK, 1984. 3 a division of loot, profits or the legacy of a will UK, 1935. 4 a swindle UK, 1937 carve up verb...
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