Eric Partridge

FOREWORD THE RE exists no good short dictionary of modern British slang: slang importantly current either throughout or for a longish period of the 20th century. To achieve this, I have abridged A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (16th-20th centuries)to about one-twelfth the size of...

The greatest and, I hope, the most helpful change effected in this new edition of /l Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the conflation of the originál text of the first (1937) edition with all the subsequent Addenda that became, by 1961, so numerous as to warrant a second volume...

FOREWORD THERE exists no good short dictionary of modern British slang: slang importantly current either throughout or for a longish period of the 20th century. To achieve this, I have abridged A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (16th-20th centuries) to about one-twelfth the size...