The founder of Urbandictionary.com culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases that define the modern slang scene, providing a gritty and witty look at our ever-changing language.
Poke through this collection of obscure, offensive insults, zingers, and comebacks culled from the dusty heap of discarded words and stumble across a vocabulary that will equip you to tell your scombroid (resembling a mackerel) boss he's a tumbrel of a superior (a person drunk to the point of vomiting). This edition combines two distinct ...
Compiled from the wildly popular Web site urbandictionary.com, "Mo Urban Dictionary" includes more than 2,000 of the latest contemporary slang entries. Each alphabetized entry includes a word, a definition, and a sample sentence. Pop-ups throughout the book provide pop culture notes and interesting facts about the words.
Merde! is the ultimate survival guide for understanding everyday French as it is really spoken. This real-life resource is for everyone who remembers thumbing through English/French dictionaries for such essential words as "toilet paper" and "damn, " as well as for the far more interesting, titillating terms to describe body parts and bodily ...
Another entry in the bestselling, Merda! series, this humorous book helps readers navigate the world of real Low German. Scheisse! introduces readers to the fine art of cursing and basic slang to spice up their German speech. On-air radio giveaways.
One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words which have made their way into every fold of popular language: Chutzpah, Mensch, Tokhes, Mishmash, Nudge, Shtick, Schmaltzy, Schlep, Icky, and so on. Then there are phrases whose meaning and syntax are borrowed from Yiddish: "bite your tongue," "drop dead," "enough already', and "excuse the ...
Now available in softbound, the revised and updated third edition of this comprehensive slang dictionary has more than 800 new expressions. Realistic example sentences - provided for each sense of every entry - show how expressions are used in current, everyday American English. Pronunciations and cautionary notes are provided as needed, and a ...
This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a commentator in the UK Guardian. "It masks ...
A self-teaching guide to Spanish slang as spoken on the streets, beaches and plazas of North America rather than in the schoolroom. The author has previously written "Street French" and "More Street French".
Valuable for both students and travelers alike, this text lists approximately 4,500 common slang words and colloquial expressions in Italian. Entries include information on the region where the word is commonly used, its definition in English, a sentence or phrase in the target language to illustrate usage, an English translation of the example, ...
Travelers with intermediate-level knowledge of German, and language students on intermediate and advanced levels will value this book as a key to getting past the slang barrier and grasping German and its idioms as people actually speak the language. More than 4,000 words or colloquial expressions seldom found in standard bilingual dictionaries ...
Learn the fundamentals of Spanish slang in 10 easy lessons. This book provides you with the conversational Spanish that will help you talk to people, conduct business, read books or watch movies in the Spanish speaking world, and it gives you all the slang you need to enjoy conversing in everyday Spanish.
Everything you wanted to know about Spanish but were afraid to ask your teacher. You'll rarely hear the colloquial Spanish of everyday conversation and commerce-the stuff you really need to get by-in the language classroom. The Street Spanish Series fills this gap. The third guide in the series provides 10 easy lessons on expletives, euphemisms, ...
An entertaining reference dictionary of contemporary and traditional American slang furnishes definitions, pronunciations, historical development, synonyms, and other information about thousands of slang expressions. Reprint.
The Japanese are extraordinarily polite and soft-spoken people who are always indirect and evasive in their dealings with each other. Right? Well, not really. They can be just as explicit, vicious, vile and downright vulgar as anyone else when they want to be. This little gem of a book teaches you hundreds and hundreds of Japanese taunts, threats ...
"Eats, Shites and Leaves" is a celebration of all things shite about the misuse of English, highlighting the prevalence of absent apostrophes, ghastly grammar, suspect sentences, rambling repetitiveness, commentators' claptrap, tortuous tautologies, insane instructions, and quirky quotations in society today.
A saucy guide to survival in everyday French. With chapters on insults, sex, drink and those expressive Gallic gestures, this book reveals the necessary vocabulary, explains its proper use and gives examples and exercises for the eager student.
Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a ...
This title provides easy lessons that help you speak Spanish like a native. This revised edition of "Streetwise Spanish" features an overview of the "signature" words that differentiate speakers across the Spanish-speaking world. It also includes an audio CD featuring 30 dialogs from the book, spoken by native speakers from more than 15 countries ...
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: How to be very rude...without anybody knowing? Some murky Medieval jokes? What to say if someone calls you mundungus, hackum or Jabbernowl? Get your revenge with some really wicked words - even English teachers will be speechless!
Visceral, raw, and - above all - utterly filthy, The Big Book of Filth is an ideal companion for the lexically incorrect, and the perfect gift for those who worry that their vocabulary of sexual vulgarism is limited to such oft-used terms as cock, knob, tits and wanking. Here are hundreds of words and phrases you didn't know, some you probably ...
Merde Encore! once again provides the spice that makes all those laborious hours of studying the subjunctive imperfect worthwhile--a hilarious guide that is an invaluable key to a richly varied form of expression. 15 line drawings.
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has caught on' or become popular over a long period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases. Some reviews of this classic edition: This delightful book will tell you the history of such phrases as "back to ...
Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition ...
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