"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The greatest survey of slang ever published and winner of the 2012 Dartmouth Medal Get it.' ( Australian Book Review) Book Description: 'This is the most significant dictionary of slang that has ever been produced. If you like modern French films, rap, or other forms of entertainment, you'll find many of the words and phrases used in here.
#GREENE DICTIONARY OF SLANG PLUS#
(Banking & Finance) slang US a dollar bill. This dictionary is a comprehensive and in-depth look at all the slang, vulgarisms, curses, and insults, plus idioms, expressions, and a lot more, that appear in everday French. 'a wonderfully politically incorrect source of education and entertainment' ( Prof. (Banking & Finance) informal US an inconvertible legal-tender US currency note originally issued during the Civil War in 1862. 'The range of sources is breathtaking' ( James Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement) 'A magnificent work of scholarship' ( Colin MacCabe, The New Statesman) 'this is the sort of book that, even when examined for a specific purpose, invites sustained perusal' ( Henry Hitchings, Financial Times) The dictionary is a stupendous achievement, in range, meticulous scholarship, and not least enterainment value' ( Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times) any language lover will find this as compelling a read as a thriller. 'After more than a decade's labour, Jonathon Green, lexicographer of the subversive, has produced as fine a three-volume dictionary of slang as you would desire to piss upon (1700: phrase meaning "excellent, first-rate").' ( Steven Poole, The Guardian) It's not hyperbolic to suggest that it's the OED of slang' ( Michael Quinion, World Wide ) 'the reference work of the vulgar tongue to which all others must now be referred he has now exhibited English slang in more detail than any lexicographer before him' ( Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Telegraph)
' belongs to a rare pantheon' ( Jonathan Meades, The Evening Standard) is the entire anglophone world unmediated' Jonathon Green - Greens Dictionary of Slang is an unprecedented 10.3 million-word collection of. 'No previous work of lexicography has ever stood as such a monument to mankind's baseness and wilful disinclination to self-improve' Get this from a library Greens dictionary of slang.
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