The slang appeal, which launched around the start of the school year, has so far yielded more than 745 submissions, including terms such as snatched and lowkey.The latter, which appears ...

New slang words added to Oxford English Dictionary 2019年《牛津英语词典》新收录的俚语词汇 Episode 191118 / 18 Nov 2019 To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript.

Add “belligerent” and “literati” in an op-ed and stir. “Belligerati!” This recent addition to America’s political lingo -- and hundreds of other coinages -- are compiled in Hatchet ...

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG (669 pp.)—Compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner — Crowell ($7.50). Webster is a moldy fig. For all its scholarship, the supposedly unabridged ...

As I continue flipping through my copy of the Dictionary of American Slang (1967), it seems like every page has a new term for "drunk." We've discussed "on a toot" (a drunken spree) and "the zings ...

This 1975 update of the original 1960 tome is unrivaled as a resource when we Flossers need to get up to speed on hobo slang, lunch vernacular, or auctioneer lingo. We thought we’d share the ...

The first English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604. In it, he announces that he is not writing for scholars or experts, but for “ladies, gentlewomen, or ...

In American English, some slang words come and go. And some stay and stay. Or as Walt Whitman poetically observed in his 1885 defense of American slang, complete with creative spelling: "Slang ...

A debate has erupted between New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, who says illin is a synonym of wack, as defined by the Dictionary of American Slang (see also: Run D.M.C.), and a ...