( Weekend 21 May, 1969.) Also known as flying flies. A meat pie in a plate of peas or gravy: Aus.:later C.20. in floaters and mash, sausages and mashed potatoes: RAF: since circa 1920.-4. Lunn, 1913 Knox, 1934, ‘It produced…in the original and highly esoteric sense of that term, a “floater”.’ Perhaps because it cannot be recalled, though perhaps suggested by faux pas slurred to föper cf., however, float, v.,2.-2.
(circa 1910), by 1929 (Wodehouse), gen, to the upper and middle classes.
A mistake, a faux pas a moment of embarrassment university s. It also includes slang from public schools, jazz idioms, and an amazing list of railwaymen’s slang and nicknames.Ī typical entry gives the flavour and an idea of the scholarly approach:įloater. There’s a huge bibliography of printed sources, and a rather interesting appendix which gives notes on special sub-sets of slang, ranging from bird-watchers to tiddlywinks players, and from backslang to Spanglish and Tombola. In that sense, it’s a broader and polite companion piece to the more scurrilous collections (which are more entertaining). There’s quite a lot of technical slang from various occupations, and armed forces jargon here – and not a lot of the sexual and bodily function slang you get in something like Roger’s Profanisaurus. This gives the reader every reason to feel confident in the definitions and authenticity of what he offers. The editor Paul Beale has maintained Partridge’s scholarly approach by citing his sources. Grub dates back to the time of Oliver Cromwell, and to knock off comes from the early 18C. A lot of the slang terms we think of as recent actually date back as far as the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
This version contains only terms known to have arisen during the twentieth century, and 1,500 new terms have been added – many from the 1980s and 1990s. This is basically a cut-down and updated version of Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English which was originally published in 1937 and is now in its eighth edition. Dictionary of twentieth century slang terms
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