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A Dictionary Of The Underworld
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-12
A Dictionary Of The Underworld written by Eric Partridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
A Dictionary Of The Underworld
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07
A Dictionary Of The Underworld written by Eric Partridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with Cant categories.
Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xv, 804 pp. Reprint of the second edition. Thoroughly engrossing, A Dictionary of the Underworld offers definitions for such obscure terms and phrases as "witch-hazel man" (heroin addict), "eason" (to tell) and "budge a beak" (run away). "Once in about every generation a book is published which dominates its field. Such a book is Partridge's Dictionary of the Underworld, which is not only the first extensive work on the underworld to appear in the twentieth century, but also the largest in the English language. (...) It is truly a monumental work, so monumental that scholars may well be disturbed by its aura of substantiality, for it will undoubtedly be cited and quoted or years to come." --David W. Maurer, American Speech, Vol. 26, No. 1 (February 1951), 38. One of the great lexicographers of the twentieth century, ERIC PARTRIDGE [1894-1979] had a keen interest in slang and unconventional English. He wrote over forty books on the English language and compiled the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Shakespeare's Bawdy and A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. He also wrote novels under the pseudonym Corrie Denison.
A Dictionary Of The Underworld
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
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A Dictionary Of The Underworld Routledge Revivals
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-02-13
A Dictionary Of The Underworld Routledge Revivals written by Eric Partridge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-13 with categories.
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
A Dictionary Of The Underworld
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
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Release Date : 1964
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Dictionary Of The Underworld
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
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Release Date : 2002
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Dictionary Of American Underworld Lingo
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language : en
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Release Date : 1962
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"A definitive dictionary of the language of crime, and an encyclopedia of criminal practice and technique."--Cover.
The Wordsworth Dictionary Of The Underworld
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Author : Eric Partridge
language : en
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Release Date : 1995
The Wordsworth Dictionary Of The Underworld written by Eric Partridge and has been published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Americanisms categories.
Dictionary Of American Underworld Lingo
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language : en
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Release Date : 1962
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