Cassell's Dictionary of SlangWith 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 |
Contents
Introduction | |
The Major Slang Dictionaries 15002000 | |
Acknowledgements | |
How To Use Cassells Dictionary of Slang | |
Abbreviations | |
Short Forms of Reference | |
The Dictionary | 1 |
Common terms and phrases
abbr adj.¹ adj.² amphetamine anal intercourse ARSE n.¹ Aus./US ball BALLOCKS BANG beat beer BITCH Black person blow one's blue bone bottle break brown buck bugger bull BUM n.¹ bung bush bust buttocks campus cannabis CHARLIE cheat cheese chicken chuck cigarette cock colour confidence trick crack cocaine CRAP derog dial drink drugs drunk cf early 19C echoic euph excl female fool heroin homosexual intercourse cf Irish jargon late 18C-early 19C late 19C+ male homosexual marijuana masturbate mid-late 19C milit n.¹ 1 late n.¹ late nonsense oneself orig penis penis cf person cf phencyclidine play police policeman prison pron proper name prostitute S.Afr sexual intercourse SHIT slang someone someone's stereotyping synon teen tramp UK Black UK juv UK Und unpleasant vagina cf woman