A dictionary of historical slang / Eric Partridge.

[Abridged ed.] / abridged by Jacqueline Simpson.

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1972.

1065p. ; 20cm.

Full ed. published as 'A dictionary of slang and unconventional English'. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.

Nearly 50,000 entries recall the living speech of a world now largely lost. Often wry and flippant, occasionally "blue", and sometimes uproariously comical, they recapture the rich idiom of English life through the ages.

9780140510461

427.09

English

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