The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning its rude, its delightful, and its a prize for anyone with a love of language. 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. Ian Sansom, The Guardian 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. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, on the other hand, is the wee babes. James Rettig, Booklist, American Library Association Most slang dictionaries are no better than momgrams or a rub of the brush, put together by shmegegges looking to make some moola. Long live the king! The old Partridge is not really dead it remains the best record of British slang antedating 1945 Now, however, the preferred source for information about English slang of the past 60 years is the New Partridge. Reviews of the two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2005: The king is dead. (no-one else could be so subjective) slang UK, 1978 grope noun an act of sexual fondling, especially when such fondling is the .

Since then, it has become a signature word for mocking the attitudes and fashions ofthe 1960s US, 1937. “Invaluable as a teaching tool.” -School Library Journal With extensive revisions that reflect new historical scholarship and changes in the English language, this second edition defines over 10,000 idiomatic expressions in greater detail than any other dictionary available today-a remarkable reference for those studying the English language, or anyone who enjoys learning its many wonderful quirks and expressions. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms explores the meanings and origins of idioms that may not make literal sense but play an important role in the language-including phrasal verbs such as kick back, proverbs such as too many cooks spoil the broth, interjections such as tough beans, and figures of speech such as elephant in the room.

Schmeer is Yiddish for “smear” or “smudge.” whole new .įrom “all systems go” to “senior moment”-a comprehensive reference to idiomatic English. The first term alludes to the Megillah, five books of the Bible read on certain Jewish feast days and considered by some to be very long and tedious.

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