The Penguin Dictionary Of Historical Slang by Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson

The Penguin Dictionary Of Historical Slang

Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson

1065 pages first pub 1936 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative fast-paced
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Nearly 50,000 entries recall the living speech of a world now largely lost. Often wry and flippant, occasionally "blue", and sometimes uproariously comical, they recapture the rich idiom of English life through the ages, bringing back to mind the ...

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