Download or read book The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms written by Jordan Tate and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, no dictionary has ever attempted to record the fascinating and often raunchy inventory of English sexual euphemisms. Jordan Tate has confronted this task with gusto and the results are nothing short of gratifying. The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms is a hilarious, unabashed, at times shocking compilation of every sexual euphemism you've ever heard—and many more you haven't. Would you be offended if someone called you a "back door burglar"? Ever heard of a "five against one"? Would you rather do the "Little Dutch Boy" or the "Little Red Riding Hood"? Along with both a literal and a sexual definition of each euphemism, this dictionary also has photographs, and, of course, an example of each term used in a sentence—all in an effort to irreverently entertain and inform. A perfect guilty pleasure for anyone who ever got a thrill looking up dirty words in the dictionary as a kid, the Contemporary Dictionary is also a must-have reference tool for those just plain too shy to ask what a "pearl necklace" really is.
Download or read book A Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms written by Jordan Tate and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexual Slang written by Alan Richter and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative, engaging, and informative, this dictionary is packed with more than 4,000 colorful slang words and phrases that have had sexual meaning at some point during the past 500 years. As entertaining as it is informative, Sexual Slang is packed with surprising facts, meanings, and insights sure to liven up anyone's language.
Download or read book Dictionary of Sexual Slang written by Alan Richter and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich repertoire of sexual slang in this compendium offers fascinating clues to the sexual humor and taboos, perceptions and cultural biases, mores and sexual roles of English-speaking people in times past and present. It offers abundant evidence that language gives voice to the major concerns and preoccupations of the people who speak it. This book features more than 4,000 words, phrases, and quips that have or have had a sexual connotation; hundreds of quotations demonstrating how terms have been used by sources ranging from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Blake to pop icons such as Lenny Bruce, Bette Midler and Madonna; terms in current use as well as archaic terms and how and when they were first used; 500 years of sexual slang from the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and South Africa; and full etymologies, explanations, and variations in usage from country to country and era to era.--[book jacket].
Download or read book Dictionary of Contemporary Slang written by Tony Thorne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this fully updated fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, language and culture expert Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of the English language, bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence from the linguistic front-line. "Thorne is a kind of slang detective, going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread." Daily Telegraph
Download or read book How Not to Say what You Mean written by R. W. Holder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand new edition celebrating 20 years of R. W. Holder's popular and successful dictionary of euphemisms is packed full of traditional favourites, such as 'Dutch uncle' or 'push up the daisies', as well as euphemisms from the contemporary world such as 'restructuring' and 'extrajudicialkilling'. Definitions include examples from real authors, along with entertaining explanations of their origins. To prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms, too: for example, 'English' (pertaining to sexual deviance) and'watermelon' (an indication of pregnancy). The A-Z organization of the text is complemented by a thematic index with short introductory articles on fruitful areas of euphemistic language such as business, sex, death, and the human body. How Not To Say What You Mean remains the most lively andauthoritative guide to the language of evasion, hyprocrisy, prudery, and deceit.
Download or read book Slang and Euphemism written by Richard A. Spears and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1981-11-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Euphemisms written by R. W. Holder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery and deceit. It dissects the human tendency to prefer vague, roundabout expressions rather than use words which are precise and disagreeably true.
Download or read book Slang and Euphemism written by Richard A. Spears and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1982 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang written by Tony Thorne and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1990 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From A to Z: Aim archie at the armitage brownie hound cassava dingleberries el ropo four-by-two get Chinese have the painters in idiot dancing jam sandwich kangaroo it lip service meathooks necktie party Ozzie and Harriet pearl diver quiche out rough end of the pineapple surfboard tray-bits under velcrohead write one's name on the lawn x-rated yodel in the canyon zippersniffer. There is a linguistic riot going on the English-speaking world over, in the form of energetic, informal speech, extraordinary for its wit, quirkiness, and biting satire. The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the most comprehensive guide to slang, gathers more than 5,000 colloquialisms, puns, similes, metaphors, and double entendres -- from sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll; to fads, fashion, and cults; to taboos, obscenities, and euphemisms -- that have enriched our language for the past forty years. Most entries have multiple definitions that are enlivened by examples of usage.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Sexual Slang written by Leonard R. N. Ashley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NTC s Dictionary of Euphemisms written by Anne Bertram and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide to unraveling euphemisms will be especially useful for those studying English and for writers, sociologists, and psychologists, as well as anyone interested in words or the English language in general.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Euphemisms Other Doubletalk written by Hugh Rawson and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and defines euphemisms and includes many examples of usage.
Download or read book The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide written by Henry Beard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of The Offical Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook comes a wickedly funny send-up of the most dangerous trend ever to strike love, romance, and relationships--sexual correctness. An easy-to-read format features hundreds of up-to-the-minute definitions of impenetrable terms, gender benders, and good old-fashioned boy-girl etiquette. Photos throughout.
Download or read book The Big Book of Filth written by Jonathon Green and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 6,500 off-color phrases, all vividly, explicitly defined. Categories include body sites, arousal and frustration, masturbation, orgasm, oral, kinky, gay, bi, and safe sex, and more. Sources range from street jargon and popular music lyrics to literary allusions, fascinating etymologies, and rhyming slang.
Download or read book Dictionary of Contemporary Slang written by Tony Thorne and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 15,000 definitions, this book provides a guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this new edition of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, language and culture expert Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of the English language, bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence from the linguistic front-line. Fully revised and expanded, this up-to-the-minute reference work paints a vivid picture of our cultural and social preoccupations. "Thorne is a kind of slang detective, going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread." Daily Telegraph
