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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch Phrases, Fossilised Jokes and Puns, General Nicknames, Vulgarisms, and Such Americanisms As Have Been Naturalised

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

A Dictionary of Catch Phrases

Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English

The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day

You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

The Long Trail: Soldiers' Songs and Slang, 1914-18

The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

All by Eric Partridge

 

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