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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.
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The Penguin dictionary of historical slang, Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson
- Language
- Released
- 1972
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1972
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 1065
- ISBN10
- 014051046x
- ISBN13
- 9780140510461
- Series
- Collection
- Penguin reference books
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Textbooks, Historical Themes, History, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, References & Manuals, Languages, Language Dictionaries, Writing, Dictionaries
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- 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.