Terms that are spelt both as two words (e.g. Phrases in which the headword is in the plural or in the genitive do not immediately follow those where the headword is in the nominative singular, but take their own alphabetical place thus bells down follows bellowser (not bell-rope), and bull’s eye follows bullocky (not bull-puncher). Phrases in which the headword comes last precede those in which it comes first thus bell, sound as a precedes bell, book and candle. Further, all come (or come-) terms, beginning with come, including come it, come out, come the…, and ending with come Yorkshire, precede comedy-merchant. Perhaps an example is more illuminating: a A.B. precedes abaddon, but it also precedes Aaron. Here, the ‘something before nothing’ system has been adopted-for the simple reason that it is the most suitable to a dictionary of this kind. No arrangement is, for no arrangement can be, perfect. No system is wholly satisfactory the arrangements in the O.E.D., in Webster and, to compare small things with great, the present dictionary are open to severe criticism-severe but unreasonable. The strictly alphabetical the ‘something before nothing’. The boundary between historical and modern slang, for the purposes of the present work, has been set at 1914.Ī NOTE ON ARRANGEMENT There are two main systems of arranging words in a dictionary. In significant first use then, but still extantĪ date, unpreceded by ‘ca’, signifies that this is the earliest discovered record it is well to bear in mind, however, that in slang, cant, colloquialism, catch-phrase, and solecism, the first use goes back generally a few, occasionally many, years earlier. Known to exist then and presumably used some years earlier Yule & Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, revised ed., 1903 a word, in no way slangy, avoided in polite societyĮrnest Weekley’s Etymological Dictionary of Modern English J.H.Vaux’s ‘Glossary of Cant, 1812’, in his Memoirs, 1819 Hence, v.i., intransitive v.t., transitive My Slang To-Day and Yesterday, revised ed., 1935ī.C.Smart & H.T.Crofton, The Dialect of the English Gypsies, revised ed., 1875Ĭ.E.Westmacott, The English Spy, 1825 vol. Session Paper of the Central Criminal Court, 1729–1913 The Oxford English Dictionary (Supplement)Ĭ.T.Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary, ed. Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 3 vols., 1851 T.Lyell’s Slang, Phrase and Idiom in Colloquial English, 1931 Jice Doone, Timely Tips to New Australians, 1926 Godfrey Irwin, American Tramp and Underworld Slang, 1931 J.C.Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, 1859, 1860, etc. Grose, P.=my annotated reprint of the 3rd ed. Julian Franklyn, Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1960 The English Dialect Dictionary, by Joseph Wright, 1896– 1905įraser & Gibbons, Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases, 1925įarmer & Henley’s Slang and its Analogues, 7 vols., 1890–1904 L.Dawson’s Nicknames and Pseudonyms, 1908 W.E.Collinson, Contemporary English, 1927 (Better dated 1698–9)īrandon’s Glossary of Cant in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ G.L.Apperson, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1929īarrère & Leland’s A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, 1889 (A–K)–1890 (L–Z).īrophy & Partridge, Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914–18, 3rd ed., 1931ī.E.’s Dictionary of the Canting Crew, ca 1690. The process of abridgement has also entailed omitting solecisms, malapropisms and grammatical points recorded in the 1961 edition.Ībbreviation, or shortening abbreviated, abridged ISBN 6-4 (Adobe e-Reader Format) I7761 0 (Print Edition)Ī NOTE ON THIS EDITION This book is an abridgement of the 1961 edition of Eric Partridge’s A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, containing only those words and expressions which were already in use before the First World War, and which may therefore be considered as historical, rather than modern, slang. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism ISBN 6-7 Master e-book ISBN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. From the last of these, published in two volumes, this book has been compiled. Revised and enlarged editions appeared in 1938, 1949, 19. This edition, first published in 1973 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd is based on A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, first published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd in 1937. THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL SLANG ERIC PARTRIDGE THE ROUTLEDGE DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL SLANG
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