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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions by Websters Synopsis A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. - Explains more than 900 allusions - Entries include examples from today's leading media - A must for language lovers and great for ESL students... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV: P-Sk (Dictionary of American Regional English) by Joan Houston Hall Publisher Comments Based on thousands of interviews across the country, the "Dictionary of American Regional English" presents our language in its infinite variety. Word lovers will delight in the wit and wisdom found in the quotations that illustrate each entry, and will... (read more) Your price: $96.00 New - Hardcover
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Dictionary of American Regional English #05: Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume V: Sl-Z by Joan Houston Hall Publisher Comments With this fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, readers now have the full panoply of American regional vocabulary, from Adam’s housecat to Zydeco. Like the first four volumes, the fifth is filled with words that reflect our... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $78.50 New - Hardcover
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Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang by Jonathan Bernstein Publisher Comments An entertaining and informative compendium of "Britspeak" takes a close-up look at the colorful expressions, terms, and phrases of British slang, uncovering the origins and history, correct usage, and etymology of everything from "sweet as a nut" to... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing by Peter Silverton Publisher Comments A frank, funny, and provocative journey through the international culture of swearing, from the shocked seventies to the naughty noughties For decades the most offensive word in the English language began with an F, then some ****s decided that it... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Big Black Book of Very Dirty Words by Alexis Munier Synopsis Airplane Blonde. Intercorpse. Prostitot. Queef. Rainbow Kiss. There's a big world of obscenity out there--and you'll explore every profane nook and cranny in this compilation. We're talking about more than 2,000 insults, obscenities, and vulgarities raw... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang #2: Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: Volume Two, H-O by Random House Publisher Comments The only historical dictionary of slang -- spanning three hundred years of slang use in America.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $33.00 Used - Hardcover
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Urban Dictonary: Fularious Street Slang Defined by Aaron Peckham Publisher Comments Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Thesaurus of Slang: Over 165,000 Uncensored Contemporary Slang Terms, Common Idioms, & Colloquialisms, Updated for the 1990's & Arranged for Quick & Easy Reference by Esther Lewin Publisher Comments More than 165,000 uncensored contemporary slang terms, common idioms, and colloquialisms are detailed, offering quick and easy access to expressions gathered from a wide variety of sources, from newspapers and magazines to television and casual... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Happy Trails: A Dictionary of Western Expressions by Robert Hendrickson Publisher Comments Filled with thousands of entertaining expressions, anecdotes, idioms, and catchwords, Happy Trails captures all of the unique bits of language spoken west of the Mississippi River clear to the Pacific.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Dictionary of Slang by Oxford Publisher Comments Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. Here, John Ayto has brought together over 10,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, to provide a comprehensive... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Filthy English by Peter Silverton Publisher Comments When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the... (read more) List Price $12.51 Your price: $11.57 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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How to Talk American: A Guide to Our Native Tongues by Jim Crotty Publisher Comments For twelve years Jim Crotty has been traveling this great country in his roving Monkmobile (don't ask) and in the process has discovered how Americans really speak, from coast to coast and border to border - from Bible Belt Banter to Vegas Vernacular... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by Oxford Publisher Comments Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. From "five-finger discount" to "buzz off," slang words add zest to everyday speech. Now, in the second edition of The Oxford... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cassell's Dictionary of English Idioms (Cassell Reference) by Cassell Publisher Comments It's clear as a bell--this informative and fun A to Z guide to English idioms really plumbs the depths of the subject. Over 10,000 cross-referenced entries that range from bread and circuses to apple-pie order and muscle in to zonk out give the meaning... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms by Ralph Keyes Publisher Comments How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Dover Books on Americana) by Tom Dalzell Publisher Comments This entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans, tracing slang terms and expressions from the end of the 19th century to the present. In addition to alphabetical listings for each decade, it features... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne Publisher Comments Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies. Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back to before World War II,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained by Betty Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments Betty Kirkpatrick has complied and exhaustive dictionary--a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language. Sample entries from Cliches Let the cat out of the bag is an idiom cliche meaning to reveal a secret. In origin... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Spat the Dummy by Ed Macdonald Publisher Comments Fiction. Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montréal by a bagman for the Irish mob, Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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