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Chambers Slang Dictionary (Hardcover)

by Jonathon Green (Author)
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Jonathon Green's Chambers Slang Dictionary, to be published next month, contains more than 4,500 words for drinks, 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 entires that provide some of the 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

'Dr Johnson would have moaned with delight.'

--Andrew Marr, DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green.'

--Martin Amis, Experience


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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.

(Chav? That's SO September 10th - Seven magazine, The Sunday Telegraph )

A mighty tome dedicated to language’s seedier denizens.

('Green’s search for slanging match', Camden New Journal )

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.

(Boyd Tonkin, The Independent )

Whether one trawls the pages of Green’s dictionary or merely glances at them,
rich discoveries are certain.

('Fulham virgins and other slang pleasures', Henry Hitchings, The Times )

'Mr Slang, aka Jonathon Green'

(Martin Amis, Experience )

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.

(John Walsh, 'Hail to the Professor of Profanity', The Independent )

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.'

(Miles Kington, The Independent )

Previous praise for Jonathon Green's Slang Dictionary

'Dr Johnson would have moaned with delight.'

(Andrew Marr, Daily Telegraph )
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Huge book, hugely entertaining, 7 Nov 2008
By Big Jim "Big Jim" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars mightily impressive, 6 Aug 2009
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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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