Download or read book The Thesaurus of Slang written by Esther Lewin and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions
Download or read book Thesaurus of American Slang written by Robert L. Chapman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1991 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 17,000 zippy synonyms for thousands of alphabetically arranged slang words--the whole nine yards--from AC-DC to zombie. Here are America's most important contemporary and historic slang words and phrases--originating in the sports world, drug culture, media, ethnic enclaves, and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Random House Thesaurus of Slang written by Esther Lewin and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 1988 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are intrigued by slang. This book provides the reader with knowledge of those "in" words and phrases.
Download or read book The Thesaurus of Slang written by Esther Lewin and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions
Download or read book Street Spanish Slang Dictionary Thesaurus written by David Burke and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1999-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Tus antepasados eran nobles? !Me estas tomando el pelo! (trans.): Your ancestors were royalty? You're pulling my leg! (lit.): Your ancestors are royalty? You're taking my hair! !La comida en este restauraniete esta para chuparse los dedos! (trans.): The fod in this restaurant id delicious! (lit.): The food in this restaurant is to suck one's fingers! While asking for directions, if a native speaker of Spanish were to tell you not to "eat your coconut" (comerse el coco) just because some "large onion" (cebollon) told you that your destination was "in the fifth pine tree" (en el quinto pino), you may not know whether to continue on your way or just give up and turn back -- that is, unless you've read David Burke's latest book in his Street Spanish series. The Street Spanish Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus offers English equivalents and usage tips for over one thousand Spanish terms, including slang words, idioms proverbs, colloquialisms, and vulgarities. It also offers an extensive thesaurus of naughty Spanish slang synonyms for common English words and phrases -- all destined to make you feel like an insider in no time.
Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Download or read book Slang Through the Ages written by Jonathon Green and published by Ntc Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes popular standard English terms and traces the development of their slang equivalents over the past 500 years
Download or read book A Thesaurus of English Dialect and Slang written by Jonnie Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thesaurus of present-day vernacular English from Berwick-upon-Tweed to the Channel Islands, this unique record of everyday English celebrates established regional dialects, emerging new varieties and colloquial forms young and old. Based on a prestigious nationwide survey, BBC Voices Recordings, it documents the linguistic landscape of England, Wales and the Channel Islands in the 21st century, and includes over 3000 separate entries, drawn from over 200 locations across the country. Each entry contains information about the term's origins, location and the social distribution of its users. With links to original sound files and cross-references to complementary dictionary sources, it is an authoritative reference work for academic linguists, but its accessible presentation also makes it suitable for creative audiences and non-specialist language enthusiasts seeking authentic, up-to-date information on British English dialect and slang, and for English language teachers and learners as an invaluable educational tool.
Download or read book The American Heritage College Thesaurus written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents synonyms and antonyms for thousands of slang and regional words along with the more stable lexicon of English words, all in an A-to-Z format.
Download or read book The Slang Thesaurus written by Jonathon Green and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slang is the language through which we communicate on an everyday basis. Often more colorful and expressive than its formal counterpart, slang is stimulated largely by "sex, money and intoxicating liquor" and, more recently, drugs, and is ever changing and evolving. This lively introduction to the world of slang provides:
Download or read book Chambers Slang Dictionary written by Jonathon Green and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.
Download or read book NTC s Thematic Dictionary of American Slang written by Richard A. Spears and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "thesaurus of slang" contains more than 9,000 expressions. Entries are illustrated by at least two English sentences each and are organized by topic, which makes finding the right expression quick and easy. Includes an alphabetical index.
Download or read book The Life of Slang written by Julie Coleman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new information about historical slang, while blogs and tweets provide us with a completely new perspective on contemporary slang. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents characterize the language of teenagers as sloppy, repetitive, and unintelligent, but these complaints are nothing new. In 1906, an Australian journalist overheard some youths on a street-corner: Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along. What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411, read on ...
Download or read book American Slang written by Robert L. Chapman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-09-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cowpokes to cyber punks, from flappers to gangsta rappers, American Slang chronicles the ever-evolving, informal, unconventional language we use every day. Expanded and completely updated, this 2nd edition contains thousands of contemporary and traditional slang expressions, including the newest computer lingo and slang from the Internet. Entries Feature: Definitions Pronunciations Time and place origins Editorial notes Cross-references Examples that illustrate and validate usage Synonyms and variant forms Impact symbols
Download or read book Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary written by Kate Woodford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
Download or read book Collins English Thesaurus in A Z Form written by Marian Makins and published by Collins. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesaurus contains not only the latest vocabulary but also a wide variety of colourful and modern informal slang words and phrases. The book includes 325,000 useful synonyms and antonyms for 16,000 main entry words, an average of 20 substitutes for every entry word.
Download or read book Random House Webster s College Thesaurus written by Random House (Firm) and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 1997 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated, the new edition of the Random House Webster's College Thesaurus retains its best-selling feature--main entries illustrated with actual sentences to show how the word and its synonyms are used.
