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The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English
By Dalzell, Tom & Partridge, Eric & Victor, Terry
- ISBN
- 978-0-41521-259-5
- Publisher
- London ; Routledge, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2008
This is a smaller version of Dalzell and Victor's 2006 New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (LJ 5/15/06). Unlike its predecessor, a two-volume, 2000-plus-page tome, the Concise edition is a much slimmer-and also more affordable-one-volume work. In addition to all the slang terms included in the previous publication, the editors have added several hundred new words to this dictionary, for a total of over 60,000 entries. Arranged alphabetically, the dictionary lists the word or phrase, the part of speech, a brief definition, sometimes the history of the phrase, the originating country...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
