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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.
A mighty tome dedicated to language’s seedier denizens.
The most-acclaimed British lexicographer since Johnson has every right
to blow off ("late 18th century: to boast, to brag". What did you
think?) as he wraps up a new edition of this most mind-bendingly
addictive guide to taboo talk.
Whether one trawls the pages of Green’s dictionary or merely glances at them,
rich discoveries are certain.
'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green'
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.
(Mark Sanderson, Literary Life, Sunday Telegraph )Jonathon Green is the nation's indefatigable lexicographer of filth, a
tireless troweller in the slurry of the unsayable. His Cassell's
Dictionary of Slang (1998) and Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008) are
phenomenal compendia of "non-standard usages," ranging across the whole
lexicon of English bar-room coinages.
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.'
Previous praise for Jonathon Green's Slang Dictionary
'Dr Johnson would have moaned with delight.'
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Chambers Slang Dictionary is a brand-new edition 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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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Better than your average dictionary the author gives comprehensive descriptions of every slang word or phrase you've heard of and thousands you won't have. He has a wickedly humerous way of describing the words (esp the rude ones!) that encourages you to keep searching and indeed "reading" the blinking thing.
loses a point for lack of portability but that is being overly churlish perhaps.
loses a point for lack of portability but that is being overly churlish perhaps.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Chambers Slang Dictionary
Congratulations to the author for putting together nearly 1,500 pages of slang from all over the English speaking world and from every depth of sub-culture. It is far more comprehensive but in someways complementary to the Oxford Dictionaries of Slang and Modern Slang. It shares the defect of the latter by not having an index nor an arrangement by subjects also it has less information about origins and usage of words. That apart it will be of great value to authors that wish to verify that a particular expression is found in a particular country or at a particular time. I can see it also as having great value to professionals working with a range of sub-cultures, ethnic, drugs, criminal, sexual and so on. An understanding of words used by such sub-cultures should greatly assist communication with clients - (or detainees)!
Congratulations to the author for putting together nearly 1,500 pages of slang from all over the English speaking world and from every depth of sub-culture. It is far more comprehensive but in someways complementary to the Oxford Dictionaries of Slang and Modern Slang. It shares the defect of the latter by not having an index nor an arrangement by subjects also it has less information about origins and usage of words. That apart it will be of great value to authors that wish to verify that a particular expression is found in a particular country or at a particular time. I can see it also as having great value to professionals working with a range of sub-cultures, ethnic, drugs, criminal, sexual and so on. An understanding of words used by such sub-cultures should greatly assist communication with clients - (or detainees)!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This is a great book. Everything you ever wanted to know about slang. I got completely hooked. There are fantastic expressions from all over the world in here. Highly recommended
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