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Chambers Slang Dictionary
Jonathon Green
RRP:
£30.00
ISBN:
9780550104397
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Summary:
Chambers Slang Dictionary is a brand-new edition version of Jonathon Green’s magisterial slang dictionary, first published in 1998. Covering the full range of slang over five centuries and from all parts of the English-speaking world, this collection has won universal acclaim for its authority, comprehensiveness and browsability.
This new edition, the first to be published by Chambers, retains all the verve and precision of the earlier work. The text has been completely overhauled and restructured to make it as accessible as possible. Anyone interested in the seamier side of language will have hours of sheer joy exploring the vast wealth of information this book contains and plumbing the depths of centuries of slang.
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- Completely authoritative, based on the most exhaustive database of slang in existence
- Bang up to date with the latest slang from the 21st century
- Across-the-board coverage of slang from different English-speaking countries and regions
- Date of first recorded use given for each word
- Fascinating explanations of the origins of terms
- Meticulously researched from original sources
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About the Author(s):
Jonathon Green is Britain's foremost lexicographer of slang. His many publications include the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the Slang Thesaurus and Slang Down the Ages. He has also compiled dictionaries of quotations and oral histories of modern culture.
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Reviews:
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To winch the dictionary onto your knee and open its pages is like entering an orchard full of strange and wonderful fruit.
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Chav? That's SO September 10th - Seven magazine, The Sunday Telegraph
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A mighty tome dedicated to language’s seedier denizens
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'Green’s search for slanging match', Camden New Journal
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Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary... contains more than 4,500 words for drink, 4,000
for drugs, 2,400 for idiots and 634 for buttocks. It
covers five centuries of language from the wrong side of the tracks,
but it is the youngest entries that provide some of the greatest
amusement.
A Giorgio Armani, for example, in rhyming slang, is a sarnie and a squirrel-kisser is an environmentalist.
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Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph
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'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green'
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Martin Amis, Experience
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Previous praise for Jonathon Green's Slang Dictionary
'Dr Johnson would have moaned with delight.'
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Andrew Marr, Daily Telegraph
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Previous praise for Jonathon Green's Slang Dictionary
'Magnificent... I felt quite pale after a while at the endless catalogue of things we do to each other.'
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Miles Kington, The Independent
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