dictionary of slang and unconventional english potx

... editor of The Macquarie Dictionary of New Words and general editor of The Macquarie Book of Slang and The Macquarie Slang Dictionary. John Loftus manages the online archive at www.hiberno english. com. ... Dictionary of Slang and Unc onventional English The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictiona...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 21:20

... and conceited fashion US, 1997 profiles noun in a deck of playing cards, the king of diamonds, jack of spades and jack of hearts, all one-eyed and drawn in profile US, 1963 pro from Dover noun ... eccentric. Rhyming slang for NUTTER UK, 1998 pound off verb (used of a male) to masturbate US, 1969 pounds noun money US, 1971 pounds and pence noun sense. Rhyming slang, an upd...

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... 2001 up and down adjective brown, especially applied to brown ale. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 up -and- downer; upper -and- downer noun a violent quarrel; a fight UK, 1927 up and down of it noun the gist of ... catch-phrase of the politically active in the US 1960s, echoing a police command US, 1960s up -and- down noun 1 an order of Kessler ale and Stroh’s beer US, 1981. 2 sex US,...

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... description of a v-sign as both threat and insult is French: ‘[Pangurge] stretched out the forefinger, and middle finger or medical of his right hand, holding them asunder as much as he could, and thrusting ... 1) Farmer and Henley’s Slang and its Analogues (1890) suggests a representation of cuckold’s horns, however this is traditionally made with the first and fourth fin...

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... Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unc onventional English The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ... referential humour, often imitating the lilt and bass of Cronkite’s voice US, 1962 and then some and more; and much more. Probably an elabor- ation of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 22:20

... study and understanding of s lang. In the eight editions of The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English published between 1937 and 1984, Partridge recorded and defined the slang and unconventional ... general and Australian slang in par- ticular. He was assistant editor of The Macquarie Dictionary of New Words and general editor of The Macquari...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 08:20

... combination of cocaine and heroin. In memory of the SPEEDBALL mix that killed film actor John Belushi, 1949–82 US, 1998 Belyando spruce; Belyando sprue noun marijuana from the Belyando area of Queensland ... forces UK, 1999 band moll noun a woman who makes herself sexually available to the members of a rock group; a groupie AUSTRALIA, 1969 band of hope; bander noun soap. Rhyming...

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... by Partridge and Beale in the appendix to the 8th edition of the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English and called ‘Oxford -er(s)’ UK, 1955 champion noun a completely inept and unlucky ... was often sold in Cambridge coffee houses US, 1967 coffee -and noun a light meal US, 1901 coffee -and adjective small-time, insignificant US, 1937 coffee -and- cakes noun a sma...

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... 1956 Duchess of Fife noun a wife. Rhyming slang; often suggested as the origin of DUTCH (a wife) and/ or DUCHESS UK, 1961 Duchess of Teck; duchess noun a cheque. Rhyming slang, formed from the title of ... stewed dried apricots NEW ZEALAND, 1992 dead man’s hand noun in poker, a hand with a pair of aces and a pair of eights. Although it is the modern belief that this was the h...

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... 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 familiar. ... 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 o...

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