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This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotat...

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witt...

First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a wa...

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witt...

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal wor...

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particul...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain ...

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and A...

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and A...

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft ...

This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discussing them in groups that make clear the connection...

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed...

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for final exams at school, with the tools they needed...

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and n...

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and n...

First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a wa...

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collecti...