The Routledge Dictionary of Historical SlangRoutledge, 2003. 9. 2. - 1066페이지 Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. |
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Eric Partridge. about right . Correct; adequate. Frank Smedley, 1850. Coll. about the size of it . Approximately (right): from ca 1870, coll; ?orig. U.S. above board . Openly; without artifice or dishonesty. Coll verging on, and occ ...
Eric Partridge. about right . Correct; adequate. Frank Smedley, 1850. Coll. about the size of it . Approximately (right): from ca 1870, coll; ?orig. U.S. above board . Openly; without artifice or dishonesty. Coll verging on, and occ ...
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... coll verging on S.E. Overbury, Earle, Smythe-Palmer. after four, after twelve . 4–5 p.m., 12–2 p.m.: C.19 Eton; the latter is in Whyte Melville's Goodfor Nothing. Perhaps rather j. than coll. after you with the push ! A London street ...
... coll verging on S.E. Overbury, Earle, Smythe-Palmer. after four, after twelve . 4–5 p.m., 12–2 p.m.: C.19 Eton; the latter is in Whyte Melville's Goodfor Nothing. Perhaps rather j. than coll. after you with the push ! A London street ...
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... coll never properly acclimatized in Great Britain and now ob. De Quincey, 1824: 'Such rubbish, such almighty nonsense (to speak transatlanticé)...' 2. Grand; impressive: proletarian coll verging on sol.: mid-C.19–20. Nevinson, 1895 ...
... coll never properly acclimatized in Great Britain and now ob. De Quincey, 1824: 'Such rubbish, such almighty nonsense (to speak transatlanticé)...' 2. Grand; impressive: proletarian coll verging on sol.: mid-C.19–20. Nevinson, 1895 ...
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... coll: mid-C.19–20. Bowen. back-swap , n. and v. To cry off a bargain; the crying-off: coll verging on s.: 1888, Fothergill, Leverhouse, '“Then it's agreed?”...“Yes, no back-swaps.”' Lit., to go back on a SWAP. back-talk . Impudence ...
... coll: mid-C.19–20. Bowen. back-swap , n. and v. To cry off a bargain; the crying-off: coll verging on s.: 1888, Fothergill, Leverhouse, '“Then it's agreed?”...“Yes, no back-swaps.”' Lit., to go back on a SWAP. back-talk . Impudence ...
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Eric Partridge. beef-witted . Doltish: coll verging on S.E.: late C.16–20; ob. (cf. BEEF-BRAINED.) As in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Whence beef-wittedness (–1863). beefiness . Solid physique: coll, orig. (–1859) at Oxford. cf ...
Eric Partridge. beef-witted . Doltish: coll verging on S.E.: late C.16–20; ob. (cf. BEEF-BRAINED.) As in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Whence beef-wittedness (–1863). beefiness . Solid physique: coll, orig. (–1859) at Oxford. cf ...
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