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The Routledge dictionary of historical slang / Eric Partridge. Abridged by Jacqueline Simpson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Simpson, Jacqueline.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English language--Slang--Dictionaries.
English language.
English language--Slang.
Americanisms.
Genre:
Dictionaries.
Physical Description:
1064 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1973]
Notes:
"This book is an abridgement of the 1961 edition of Eric Partridge's A dictionary of slang and unconventional English, containing only those words and expressions which were already in use before the First World War, and which may therefore be considered as historical, rather than modern, slang."
Contains:
Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979. Dictionary of slang and unconventional English. 1961.
ISBN:
0710077610
OCLC:
908553

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