Overview

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge s own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include:

• unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean
• emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English
• dating information for each headword
• in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term s origins and meaning.

• a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years
• over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture
• new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums
• many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content.

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