Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Keywords: solecisms, catachresis, nicknames, vulgarisms, phrases, catch, slang, unconventional, english, colloquialisms, dictionary
Number of Pages: 1440
Published: 1985-03-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0025949802
ISBN-13: 9780025949805

Wordslinger Eric Partridge intended his dictionary to be a "humble companion" to the Oxford English Dictionary--a ribald companion is more like it! In Partridge’s domain, a gentleman’s pleasure-garden has little to do with the horticultural, referring as it does to the genitalia muliebria. On the other hand, play pussy is a Royal Air Force term meaning "to take advantage of cloud cover," and since the 1970s British forces have called intelligence operatives secret squirrels. And so it goes. There is enough slang, cant ("i.e., language of the underworld"), and expletives here for a

Author: Akihiko Yonekawa
Publisher: Kodansha International
Keywords: japanese, kodansha, children, classics, series, colloquialisms, dictionary, slang, polite, power
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2001-09-04
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 4770027737
ISBN-13: 9784770027733

The perfect guide to speaking real JapaneseBeyond Polite Japanese offers more than 500 words and phrases for those who want to take a step beyond Japanese textbooks and speak like a native without spending decades in the country. Many of the entries cover traditional slang, while other entries take up more contemporary usage. Slang-forming prefixes and suffixes are also presented, as well as phrases that are commonly slurred, proving elusive to the foreign ear. Literal meanings, notes on usage, and etymology are included for greater understanding.Outgrowing polite Japanese is not easy, but wit