The study of slang is now taken seriously by academics, especially lexicographers like the late Eric Partridge, devoting their energies to the field and publishing on it, including producing slang dictionaries. Cassells Dictionary of Slang, New Edition. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms. In recent years, dictionaries with a more academic focus have tried to bring together etymological studies in an attempt to provide definitive guides to slang while avoiding problems arising from folk etymology and false etymology. Baseball slang is particularly used to describe the level of physical intimacy achieved in a relationship (e.g., 'I got to first base last night'). Grose's work was arguably the most significant English-language slang dictionary until John Camden Hotten's 1859 A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words. Other early slang dictionaries include A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, first published circa 1698, and Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, first published in 1785. The Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a 17th-century slang dictionary, written in 1673 by Richard Head, that looked to define thieves' cant.
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Slang dictionaries have been around hundreds of years. Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited ISBN: 0550105638 Category: Language Arts & Disciplines Page: 1477. Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.pdf.
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Famous slang dictionaries 17th and 18th centuries Author Jonathon Green 2008 Author: Jonathon Green. Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.pdf.