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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British And American from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Dayby Eric PartridgeISBN 041505916X (0-415-05916-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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A Dictionary of Cliches: With an Introductory Essayby Eric PartridgeISBN 0415065550 (0-415-06555-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Cliches: With an Introductory Essay'Book summary:Clichés, the "coin(s) so battered by use as to be defaced," are anathema to Eric Partridge. He says, "their ubiquity is remarkable and rather frightening," and while he likens proverbs to expressions of wisdom, he says, clichés are instances of "inanition." They all sound familiar, for such is the nature of the cliché. What, for example, does "in the event of an emergency" add, beyond verbosity, instead of "in an emergency"? And so, from "abject apology" to "your guess is as good as mine," he lists, explains, and categorizes more than 2,000 trite and tired phrases to avoid "at all costs." [via]
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A Dictionary of Historical Slangby Eric Partridge , Jacqueline SimpsonISBN 014051046X (0-14-051046-X)
Hardcover, Penguin
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Englishby Eric Partridge , Paul BealeISBN 0415065682 (0-415-06568-2)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch Phrases, Fossilised Jokes and Puns, General Nicknames, Vulgarisms and Such Americanisms As Have Been Naturalisedby Eric Partridge , Paul BealeISBN 0415291895 (0-415-29189-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms, and Catch-Phrases, Solecisms and Catachresis, Nicknames, and Vulgarismsby Eric PartridgeISBN 0025949802 (0-02-594980-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms, and Catch-Phrases, Solecisms and Catachresis, Nicknames, and Vulgarisms'Book summary: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 all takers--there's low, Cockney rhyming, "picturesque Australian similes," society phrases, and even the semiproverbial. Dorothy Wordsworth, of all people, used a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse--a phrase "applied to a covert yet comprehensible hint, though often stupidity is implied."
Partridge also reveals low language's less larky side. His book can be a dark record of linguistic prejudice through the ages. Of course, in a slang dictionary, nothing is what it seems. Elevated means "drunk"; a deep-freezer is "a girl or woman of the prim or keep-off-me type"; and stage fright is late-20th-century rhyming slang for "a (glass of) light (ale)." Are you able to descry what the jocular Seduce my ancient footwear really means? If not, consider consulting Partridge's masterwork, as large as life and twice as natural. [via]
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Eric Partridge in His Own Wordsby Eric Partridge , David CrystalISBN 0025289608 (0-02-528960-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Name Your Child: A Handy Guide for Puzzled Parentsby Eric PartridgeISBN 0237444178 (0-237-44417-8)
Hardcover, Evans Bros
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The New Partridge Dictionary Of Slang And Unconventional Englishby Eric Partridge , Tom Dalzell, Terry VictorISBN 0415212588 (0-415-21258-8)
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern Englishby Eric PartridgeISBN 0415050774 (0-415-05077-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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As well as giving the answers to questions about the derivation of individual words, it is a fascinating book to browse through, and includes extensive lists of prefixes, suffixes, and elements used in the creation of new vocabulary.
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Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Englishby Eric Partridge , Paul BealeISBN 0026053500 (0-02-605350-0)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English'Book summary:The English language is in a state of perpetual change and "Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and unconventional English" presents a snapshot of its state into the nineties. In this concise edition, Paul Beale continues the tradition begun in Eric Partridge's "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English", while making it particularly relevant to our understanding of the language of the present day. More than 1500 new terms have been added - coinages of the 1980s that had not yet come to light when the unabridged edition last went to press in 1983. Like its parent volume, the concise edition provides a account of the vivid, racy, and informative elements of our language, documenting the living history of English and social history of the twentieth century. [via]
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Shakespeare's Bawdyby Eric PartridgeISBN 0415254000 (0-415-25400-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Bawdy'Book summary:When Shakespeare's plays were first performed, they were popular with everyone: they weren't classics yet or a requisite course to be suffered. The stories were good entertainment for the masses, with a bawdy streak a mile wide. Certainly Shakespeare's depth and insight into human nature was appreciated, but surely some came just for the dirt. Shakespeare's contemporaries didn't need a glossary to get the jokes, but we do. Thank goodness for Eric Partridge's dictionary of Elizabethan smut, so we can get the double-entendres, too. Thus, "hardening of one's brows" (The Winter's Tale) refers to being cuckolded, "laced mutton" (Two Gentleman of Verona) is a prostitute, "riggish" (Cleopatra) means lascivious, and "groping for trout in a peculiar river" (Measure for Measure) means copulating with a woman. With an essay on the sexual, homosexual, and nonsexual bawdy in Shakespeare, an index to the essay, and a full glossary of bawdry, Partridge puts the nudge and wink back in Shakespeare. [via]
Slang To-Day and Yesterday: With a Short Historical Sketch and Vocabularies of English, American, and Australian Slangby Eric PartridgeISBN 0389039772 (0-389-03977-2)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Imports
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Smaller Slang Dictionaryby Eric PartridgeISBN 041503969X (0-415-03969-X)
Softcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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Usage and Abusageby Eric Partridge , Janet WhitcutISBN 0140514422 (0-14-051442-2)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Usage and Abusage'Book summary:Eric Partridge was a master of linguistic scholarship. Author of A Dictionary of Cliches, Shakespeare's Bawdy, and many others, Partridge's Usage and Abusage, first out in 1942, was last updated by him in 1973, six years before his death. But life and language tick on, even without Partridge. Now, Janet Whitcut has revised his classic to keep up with the 1990s. One is reminded that "ablution is now intolerably pedantic" for "hand washing," that errata should be confined to corrections in books, and that precipitously (very steeply) should not be misused in the place of precipitately (violently hurried). The entry on punctuation runs for pages and is lucid, literate, and lively. The "Vogue Words" section is completely updated and provides today's connotations for words and phrases from academic to yuppie, rounding out a scholarly reference that maintains the Partridge standard. [via]
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- Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English: ISBN 0393317099 (0-393-31709-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Usage and Abusage: ISBN 0140510249 (0-14-051024-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Usage and Abusage: a Guide to Good English (Abusus Non Tollit Usum): ISBN 0141014466 (0-14-101446-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Usage and Abusage: ISBN 0241133017 (0-241-13301-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Usage and Abusage Guide to Good English: ISBN 0241906784 (0-241-90678-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English: ISBN 0393037614 (0-393-03761-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Usage and Abusage: ISBN 0140514422 (0-14-051442-2)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
- Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English: ISBN 0393317099 (0-393-31709-9)
You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Alliesby Eric PartridgeISBN 0415050758 (0-415-05075-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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