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Books on: origin slang

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Shorter Slang Dictionary

Book by Rosalind Fergusson; Routledge, 1994

Subjects:

English Language--Slang--Dictionaries

Collections: Entire Library

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century)From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA)This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking world. It gives clear and ...
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From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century)From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA)This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking world. It gives clear and concise definitions of each word, supplemented by examples of their use and information about where and when they came into being. This entertaining reference work will be of use to students of English at all levels and a source of fascination to word-lovers throughout the world.
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Words of the Vietnam War The Slang, Jargon, Abbreviations, Acronyms, Nomenclature, Nicknames, Pseudonyms, Slogans, Specs, Euphemisms, Double-Talk, Chants, and Names and Places of the Era of United States Involvement in Vietnam

Book by Gregory R. Clark; McFarland, 1990

Subjects:

Americanisms--Dictionaries, English Language--United States--Slang--Dictionaries, Military Art And Science--Dictionaries, Soldiers--United States--Language--Dictionaries, United States--History, Military--20th Century--Dictionaries, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Language--Dictionaries

Collections: Entire Library

...facilities and repair barges to support riverine operations. ARM see Anti-Radiation Missile Armalite M-16A2, Colt M-16 Original manufacturer of the AR-15 rifle which later became the M-16 rifle.The AR-15 was first designed in the mid-fifties and licensed...
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The Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt

Book by G. A. Wells; Open Court Publishing, 1987

Subjects:

Language And Languages--Origin, Language And Languages--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Education, Entire Library

...invented, for instance among schoolboys and students. It is individuals who originate such words, and they are either repeated and copied or forgotten, the slang of one generation being mostly replaced in the next. Adults who are thrown together...
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American Nicknames: Their Origin and Significance

Book by George Earlie Shankle; H. Wilson, 1955

Subjects:

Names, Geographical--United States, Names, Personal, Nicknames--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...nicknames and accounting for their origin and significance. The data...attempt has been made to include slang expressions, however great...some excellent dictionaries of slang which the general reader or...Earthquake Allen had its origin in a speech he made before...
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A Gentle Cynic: Being a Translation of the Book of Koheleth, Commonly Known as Ecclesiastes, Stripped of Later Additions: Also Its Origin, Growth, and Interpretation

Book by Morris Jastrow Jr.; Lippincott, 1919

Subjects:

Bible--O.T--Ecclesiastes--Commentaries

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...STRIPPED OF LATER ADDITIONS ALSO ITS ORIGIN, GROWTH AND INTERPRETATION BY MORRIS...bearings of the modifications to which the original book of Koheleth was subjected on its...Those who manipulated the text of the original Kobeleth in order to convert an unorthodox...

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Journal Articles on: origin slang

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"Snatch," "Hole," or "Honey-Pot"? Semantic Categories and the Problem of Nonspecificity in Female Genital Slang

Journal article by Virginia Braun, Celia Kitzinger; The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 38, 2001

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...no attempt to code slang terms in ways which...putative) etymological origins (e.g., the derivation...extent to which the origins of many ancient slang terms reflect and...by the etymological origin of many other slang terms. For example...
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Much Ado about "Sweet Bugger All": Getting to the Bottom of a Puzzle in British Folk Speech

Journal article by Alan Dundes; Folklore, Vol. 113, 2002

Subjects:

English language--Dialects, Folklore--Research, Slang--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--Languages

Collections: Entire Library

...number of British slang expressions involving...Buggery Bugger in its original and literal sense...off" in American slang, meaning "Get out...bugger." The likely original English phrase in...primer on Australian slang that "bugger" seems...Australia, has lost its original offensive connotation...
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Preferential Trade Agreements: The Wrong Road

Journal article by Jagdish Bhagwati; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 27, 1996

Subjects:

Commercial treaties--Interpretation and construction, International trade--Laws, regulations, etc., Rules of origin (International trade)--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...can make money by assigning goods the origin suggested by those bearing gifts) immensely...bondings (or "steady relationships," in our slang) among the undergraduates. Needless to...facilitating protectionist capture of rules of origin. Lets take some telling examples. In...
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Not Just Another Multicultural Story

Journal article by Jon Stratton; Journal of Australian Studies, 2000

Subjects:

Assimilation (Sociology)--Australia, Australia--Social aspects, Ethnic relations--Australia, Immigrants--Australia, Multiculturalism--Australia

Collections: Entire Library

...abbrev. of POMEGRANATE, rhyming slang for immigrant The Macquarie...Britain has a very different origin. Rather than being imposed on...difference, is classified by national origin. However, in Australia not every...notes, Britishness was recent in origin.(9) It was still evolving, along...
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Los Angeles Zoot: Race "Riot," the Pachuco, and Black Music Culture

Journal article by Douglas Henry Daniels; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 82, 1997

Subjects:

Fads--Social aspects, Los Angeles, California--Demonstrations, protests, etc., Minority youth--Clothing, Music and youth--Social aspects, Racism--California, Riots--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...arrival of Pachuco slang was dated by George...of its geographic origins, a number of informants...argots lower-class origins, like the zoot-suit...among pachucos, this slang reminded themselves...urban underworld origins, conveyance by highly...affected American slang as much as the language...

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Magazine Articles on: origin slang

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The Word on the Street: The English Language Is Continually Evolving, as Two New Slang Dictionaries Prove. but the Best Place to Learn the Meaning of Words Such as "Sketty", "Yatty" and "Baphead" Is on Any London Bus at 8.30 in the Morning, Writes Lynsey Hanley

Magazine article by Lynsey Hanley; New Statesman, Vol. 134, December 19, 2005

Subjects:

2005 Blogged: Despatches from the Blogosphere (Book), Books--Book reviews, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (Book), The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...hasnt been emptied for a few days. One word I looked up in both slang dictionaries was "sketty". Meaning a girl of tight clothing...sketel", turns up in Cassell. Green cannot put a date or place of origin on the word, but wonders whether it is connected to Catherine...
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Word Improvisation: Here Come the Frosh: Investigations of Slang by the Editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Magazine article by J.E. Lighter; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, February 1997

Subjects:

Cirque du Soleil, Slang

Collections: Entire Library

...Historical Dictionary of American Slang. by J.E. Lighter...survival." That sixty-four of the original seventy-two Republican freshmen...has become the journalistic slang of choice for congressional...popular in Vietnam, but its original semantic field is too risque...
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Cats out of the Bag: Investigations of Slang by the Editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Magazine article by J.E. Lighter; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, June 1999

Subjects:

English language--Terminology, Slang

Collections: Entire Library

...cousins, the cats that prowl the savannas of slang are pretty well domesticated. The metaphor-minded...London. No one really knows the expressions origin. The same holds true for cat itself...the red panda. By 1910 it had become a slang reference to somebody energetic or fearsome...
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If You Know the Origin of Sledging, Write to A N Wilson

Magazine article by Hunter Davies; New Statesman, Vol. 129, March 12, 1999

Subjects:

Soccer--Evaluation, United Kingdom--Recreational aspects

Collections: Entire Library

If you know the origin of sledging, write to A N Wilson by Hunter Davies Here...that is fairly graphic. But where did "sledging" come from? Is it sexual slang, or something to do with drugs? (My editor tells me its used in cricket...
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Word Improvisation: Getting Real

Magazine article by J.E. Lighter; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, February 1998

Subjects:

Slang

Collections: Entire Library

...exists about the origin of phony. The word...whom the obsolete slang word fawney (handily...today at what teen slang designates as posers...counterfeit money." Its origin is unknown, and the...collection of Australian slang gives the contemporary...the explanation of origin falls into a sort...

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Newspaper Articles on: origin slang

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Scholar Disputes Ebonics Link to African Dialects: No Genetic Tie, He Says, Just Slang

Newspaper article by Carol Innerst; The Washington Times, January 15, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...things that came in are just slang, are just made up." The Board...genetically based means `having its origins in, it was taken to mean something...geneticists in the sense of `common origin, " he says. "French and Spanish...classifications are based on origin, and in this sense Ebonics is...
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Origin OF THE Speeches; WHERE OUR WORDS COME FROM

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Origin OF THE Speeches; WHERE OUR WORDS COME...King James Bible. COCKNEY rhyming slang, a Victorian invention, is a growing...parsnips"? EACH decade gives us new slang. In the 1900s we got "cornflake...meaning uncontrollable fear, has its origins in Greek mythology. It comes from...
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Albert Park's Column

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), September 14, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...colonial time out there, as does, more circuitously, cock-up (from the Kap-ak fish) or banged-up which had its origin in Indian Army slang describing what happened to someone out of their skull on bhang (thats cannabis pal, if you are a received pronunciation...
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101 BANDS AND HOW THEY GOT THEIR NAMES; Ever Wondered Why So Many Bands Have Weird Names? MITCHELL SYMONS Found Out

Newspaper article by Mitchell Symons; The People (London, England), December 29, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...huge hairstyles which, in the slang of the American South, are themselves...A three-way arrangement. The original band contained two musicians...MIDNIGHT RUNNERS "Dexy" is a slang word for the pep pill Dexedrine...link. "Doobie" is Californian slang for a marijuana joint. THE...
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An Escape from Reality; Television

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 10, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...full of product names that, while popular in their country of origin, somehow failed when marketed overseas. Matsui electrical goods...foods have an image problem in France (because Gerber is French slang for "to vomit"). In Spain, motorists never really warmed to...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: origin slang

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Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...grammar ; inflection ; linguistics ; part of speech ; phonetics ; phonology ; semantics ; sign language ; slang . Bibliography See L. Bloomfield, Language (1933); E. Sapir, Language (1921, repr. 1949); S. I. Hayakawa, Language...

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