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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... origin groups; and from some anecdotal cause or incidental (or local) notoriety, as in 'Pills Holloway', 'Rattler Morgan'. F. & H.; Bowen; and personal research. For an article on the subject, see A Covey of Partridge, 1937. Lingua ...
... origin groups; and from some anecdotal cause or incidental (or local) notoriety, as in 'Pills Holloway', 'Rattler Morgan'. F. & H.; Bowen; and personal research. For an article on the subject, see A Covey of Partridge, 1937. Lingua ...
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... origin of the phrase is ghoulish but interesting. A certain admiral whose name I cannot remember died while in the West Indies and as it was desired to bury him in England his coffin was filled with rum to preserve the body as was not ...
... origin of the phrase is ghoulish but interesting. A certain admiral whose name I cannot remember died while in the West Indies and as it was desired to bury him in England his coffin was filled with rum to preserve the body as was not ...
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... Origin of Britons, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons, 1914, Dr L.A.Waddell derives the phrase from o mihi, Brito Martis, 'Oh (bring help) to me, Brito Martis'. She was the tutelary goddess of Crete, and her cult was that of, or associated with ...
... Origin of Britons, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons, 1914, Dr L.A.Waddell derives the phrase from o mihi, Brito Martis, 'Oh (bring help) to me, Brito Martis'. She was the tutelary goddess of Crete, and her cult was that of, or associated with ...
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... origin, 'the worst Hibernian characters always wearing bad high hats (caps are not recognized in kingly Ireland)'. cf. BAD LOT and see HAT!, WHAT A SHOCKING BAD. bad. lot . A person of—often worse than—indifferent morals: coll: Thackeray ...
... origin, 'the worst Hibernian characters always wearing bad high hats (caps are not recognized in kingly Ireland)'. cf. BAD LOT and see HAT!, WHAT A SHOCKING BAD. bad. lot . A person of—often worse than—indifferent morals: coll: Thackeray ...
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... Origin? Perhaps a blend: ?bungle+swindle. bing or byng . Gen. bing a-vast. To go: c. of mid-C.16–early 19. Scott has b. out, in Guy Mannering, and b. avast, in Nigel. Perhaps of Romany origin. binge . A drinking bout: Oxford University ...
... Origin? Perhaps a blend: ?bungle+swindle. bing or byng . Gen. bing a-vast. To go: c. of mid-C.16–early 19. Scott has b. out, in Guy Mannering, and b. avast, in Nigel. Perhaps of Romany origin. binge . A drinking bout: Oxford University ...
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