Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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• Green’s Dictionary of Slang

  Green’s Dictionary of Slang Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue ‘Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been […] or is ever likely to be’​ —  Journal of En...

• Browse — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

  Browse — Green’s Dictionary of Slang A, n.1[1] A, n.2[2] A, n.3[3] a, n.[4] -a, sfx[5] aachibombo, n.[6] aai-aai, n.[7] a-alike, n.[8] a. and b., n.[9] aardvark, ...

• About the Dictionary — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

  Green’s Dictionary of Slang Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in...

• Introduction to the Digital Edition — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

  This is the online version of Green’s Dictionary of Slang. In October 2010 Chambers/Hodder in the UK published my 3-volume, 6,200-page dictionary of five hundred years of worldwide anglophone slang...

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• How to Use — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

  Green’s Dictionary of Slang Finding Entries Using the Browse section If you want to investigate a group of slang words from the same area of the alphabet, the Browse section shows an alphabetically-or...