![]() ![]() ![]() At over 2,000 pages it's mondo (23) and pretty authoritative, including entries not only from the United Kingdom and America but also from Australia, New Zealand, India and the Caribbean. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, on the other hand, is the wee babes (22). Most slang dictionaries are no better than momgrams (18) or a rub of the brush (19), put together by shmegegges (20) looking to make some moola (21). ![]() If you've noodles (12) you'll already know that it was one of lexicography's poster boys (13), Eric Partridge, who compiled the King James version (14) of English-language slang dictionaries in his Dictionary of Slang and Uncoventional English, published in various editions from 1937 to 1984, but there's no way Partridge is any longer going to grip your shit (15) so Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor have produced a two volume jazzed-up (16) version. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2 volumesĪhhh, Rooshan (1)! Geezer (2)! Laydeez (3)! Check this (4)! It may sound like a load of abba-dabba (5), or ackamaracka (6) and bafflegab (7) to you, like someone's been on the old Bahama hooter (8), but listen up (9) this King Farouk (10) is one daddy-come-to-church (11). ![]()
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