The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

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Ankle-biters and crumblies, cubes and culchies, perps and preppies-there is something for everyone in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. Find here the real McCoy on subjects as diverse as barfing, corpsing, and Dutching, on the Circus, defjam, and struggle-buggies. The dictionary provides an authoritative and detailed overview of twentieth-century slang, with features inciuding: • Over 5,000 slang words and phrases, from Blighty (Sloane, Brahms and Liszt, wally), Oz(crim, chunder, iilywhacker), and the US ofA (couch potato, ballpark, frat) • The authority of the Oxford English Dictionary and its language resources • Definitions for each entry, illustrative quotations, word origins, and the date of first use in print 'It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski.' (P. G. Wodehouse, 1960) 'He became seriously rich, but in 1977 experienced a mid-wealth crisis.' (Washington Post, 1981) 'Hooray Henrys are the tip of the Sloane iceberg,... Tovább

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Ankle-biters and crumblies, cubes and culchies, perps and preppies-there is something for everyone in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. Find here the real McCoy on subjects as diverse as barfing, corpsing, and Dutching, on the Circus, defjam, and struggle-buggies. The dictionary provides an authoritative and detailed overview of twentieth-century slang, with features inciuding: • Over 5,000 slang words and phrases, from Blighty (Sloane, Brahms and Liszt, wally), Oz(crim, chunder, iilywhacker), and the US ofA (couch potato, ballpark, frat) • The authority of the Oxford English Dictionary and its language resources • Definitions for each entry, illustrative quotations, word origins, and the date of first use in print 'It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski.' (P. G. Wodehouse, 1960) 'He became seriously rich, but in 1977 experienced a mid-wealth crisis.' (Washington Post, 1981) 'Hooray Henrys are the tip of the Sloane iceberg, visible and audible for miles.' (Barr & York, 1982) 'It's a clever wheeze dreamed up by a bunch of láger louts with a GCSE in Spanish.' (Priváté Eye, 1989) 'Last night, when I was just getting eyes for somé sack time, this bear falls up to my pad, a type looking to score for free.' (Alfréd Hitchcock's Mystery Magaziné, 1959) 'A plot... which boasted that hilarious device in which the hero says " I need to find a right wazzock".' (Independent, 1991) 'I jam on the taboos, but my sister was rad.' (New Yorker, 1985) 1 "tJ/; _á Vissza