Download or read book A Dictionary of RAF Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of RAF Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect stocking filler for anyone who imagines themselves flying a spitfire . . . Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover the gloriously funny slang which was part of everyday life in two world wars. Passion-killers: Airwomen's service knickers, whether twilights (the lighter, summer-weight variety) or black-outs (the navy-blue winter-weights). A wise directive has purposely made them as unromantic in colour and in design as a wise directive could imagine. Thanks to the work of Eric Partridge in 1945, the hilarious slang of the Royal Air Force during the first two World Wars has been preserved for generations to come. While some phrases like 'chocks away!' have lasted to this day, others deserve to be rediscovered . . . Beer-lever: From pub-bars, meaning the 'Joystick' of an aircraft. Canteen cowboy: A ladies' man. Half-pint hero: A boaster. One who exemplifies the virtue of Dutch courage without having the trouble of going into action. Tin fish: A torpedo. Umbrella man: A parachutist. Visiting-card: A bomb. Wheels down: Get ready - especially to leave a bus, tram, train. From lowering the wheels, preparatory to landing. Whistled: In a state of intoxication wherein one tends to whistle cheerfully and perhaps discordantly. The Dictionary of RAF Slang is a funny and fascinating insight into the lives of our RAF heroes, in a time gone by.

Download or read book A Dictionary of RAF Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of R A F Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by London M. Joseph [1945]. This book was released on 1945 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A dictionary of r a f slang by eric partridge written by Eric Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book It s a Piece of Cake or R A F Slang Made Easy written by C. H. Ward-Jackson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book It s a Piece of Cake Or R A F Slang Made Easy written by C. H. Ward-Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book It s a piece of cake or R A F slang made easy written by Cyril Henry Ward- Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War speak written by Bernard Beadle and published by OxCHEPS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 different slang expressions collected remembered by Jean and Bernard Beadle (2115686 LACW Beadle JF and 1323197 Cpl Beadle BGF), with help from a band of survivors that remain. Expressions like "Gone for a Burton" lingered on, but others like "Arse End Charlie" and "Battle Bowler" have long since disappeared The book is a dictionary, but it is also a memoir of an era. For those who were not there at the time it is difficult not to think of Richard Todd, Trevor Howard (having a brief encounter) and Kenneth More in those famous black and white movies.

Download or read book Dictionary of Service Slang written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Forces Slang 1939 1945 written by Eric Partridge and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Service Slang written by J. L. Hunt and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1943, this is a facsimile reissue, complete with original witty illustrations. You would be a 'sad apple' to call it a dictionary, it is more a light-hearted survey of expressions prevalent in the Army, Navy and R.A.F. during the Second World War.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Slang Jargon Cant written by Albert Barrère and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.

Download or read book A Massive Book Full of FECKIN IRISH SLANG that s Great Craic for Any Shower of Savages written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest ever dictionary of Irish slang! Can you tell your cute hoors from your chancers, or your gougers from your gurriers? Do you know a slapper, a snapper, a shaper or a sleeveen when you see one? No? Well, that's coola boola, because we've put together the most massive, mighty and manky collection of Irish slang in history, or at least in donkey's years. So stop acting the maggot and give it a lash! 'Side-splitting ... Irish Slang's the business!' The Sun

Download or read book The Slang Dictionary Or The Vulgar Words Street Phrases and fast Expressions of High and Low Society written by John Camden Hotten and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Slang Jargon Cant Embracing English American and Anglo Indian Slang Pidgin English Gypsies Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology written by Albert Barrère and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: