Partridge, Eric 1894-1979

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms by Eric Partridge ( Book )
87 editions published between 1938 and 1985 in English and held by 4,760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On t.p.: Colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms

Usage and abusage : a guide to good English by Eric Partridge ( Book )
149 editions published between 1942 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Usage and Abusage is a classic that has stood up well to the passage of time. But language does evolve over the years, and new problems (such as the use of "hopefully") and current topics (such as "sexism") have engendered a whole new vocabulary, which cannot be omitted from any book discussing the English of the 1990s. In this new edition, Janet Whitcut has revised Partridge's popular reference book to reflect the language of well-informed writers, readers, and speakers today. In addition, she has added a section to the book entitled Vogue Words, which includes words such as "crash" "symbiotic," and "viable" that have acquired a power and an influence beyond those that they originally possessed. Usage and Abusage wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds and offers constructive advice on the proper use of English

Origins; a short etymological dictionary of modern English by Eric Partridge ( Book )
58 editions published between 1958 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This work is an etymological dictionary of the 12,000 commonest words in modern English

Shakespeare's bawdy : a literary & psychological essay and a comprehensive glossary by Eric Partridge ( Book )
80 editions published between 1947 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and cross-references

A dictionary of catch phrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day by Eric Partridge ( Book )
35 editions published between 1971 and 2000 in English and held by 2,061 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world

A dictionary of clichés : with an introductory essay by Eric Partridge ( Book )
69 editions published between 1930 and 2000 in English and German and held by 1,890 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics

Slang to-day and yesterday, with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American and Australian slang by Eric Partridge ( Book )
51 editions published between 1933 and 1979 in English and held by 1,847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A dictionary of the underworld : British & American, being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs by Eric Partridge ( Book )
48 editions published between 1949 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 1,534 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English by Eric Partridge ( Book )
12 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and held by 1,112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source 2006The successor to The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English' Eric Partridge' s magnum opus' this all-new work retains the humour and energy of its forebear, and continues the Partridge tradition for a new millennium. The culmination of years of research, this Dictionary features sources ranging from fanzines, through movie scripts, to classic twentieth-century literature.Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include:new two-volume

A concise dictionary of slang and unconventional English : from a Dictionary of slang and unconventional English by Eric Partridge by Eric Partridge ( Book )
20 editions published between 1989 and 1999 in English and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On t.p.: From a Dictionary of slang and unconventional English by Eric Partridge. Includes 1500 new slang expressions