The Polish-English Dictionary of Slang and Colloquialism

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Hippocrene Books, 1998 - Foreign Language Study - 361 pages
This unique dictionary records what has traditionally been discarded in Polish-English dictionaries: slang and colloquialisms, often said to be the essence of the national character of both Poles and Americans. Useful for both Americans learning colloquial Polish and Poles learning colloquial American English, this is the only dictionary of its kind. English index making it a bi-directional dictionary, phonetics are provided with all Polish entries and their variants, grammatical identification of expressions, example sentences are provided for all entries in Polish and in English, and caution signs mark all offensive expressions.

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