tailieunhanh - Slang and uncoventional english part 16

We picked up where Partridge left off, recording the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since World War 2 with the same scholarship and joy in language that characterised Partridge's work. We are not, and cannot be, Partridge: but we can strive to be proud heirs of Partridge and to speak with a voice that Partridge would recognise as an echo of his own. We have worked hard to continue the Partridge tradition, observing high standards of lexicography while producing an accessible work informed by. | 87 box slugger brahma Brahma box slugger noun a criminal specialising in breaking into safes us 1970 box someone s ears verb to hit someone round the head uk 1001 box tool noun any tool used for breaking into a safe us 1972 box-up noun a mix-up a confusion. Also used a verb and as boxed-up an adjective Australia 1945 boy noun 1 heroin us 1953. 2 the penis Ireland 1992. 3 a male friend. Connotes affection and loyalty us 1997. 4 a homosexual male prostitute us 1971. 5 a lesbian us 1997. 6 a boxer or wrestler us 1977. 7 in a deck of playing cards a jack or knave us 1907. 8 in horse racing a jockey us 1951. 9 a dollar money uk 1730 boy beaver noun the male sex organs and pubic hair us 1937 boychik noun a boy or young man. Also variant boychick . As is the case with most diminuitives used with affection coined by Yiddish speakers in America us 1951 boyf noun a boyfriend uk 2003 boy-gal noun a male homosexual us 1990 boy-girl noun a young effeminate male homosexual us 1952 boy-hole noun a young and passive homosexual male. Sexual objectification us 1997 boy in the boat noun the clitoris us 1910 boykie boytjie noun a boy a youth used as an admiring form of address to a man. An Anglo-Afrikaans diminutive of boy south Africa 1974 boyno hello uk 2002 boyo noun 1 used as a good-humoured form of address to a man. An elaboration of boy stereotypically Irish or Welsh Ireland 1393. 2 a Welsh man. Somewhat patronising after what is thought to be a stereotypically Welsh form of address uk 1953 boyo adjective mildly pornographic featuring naked men us 1970 boy oh boy used for registering shock surprise satisfaction etc also used to emphasise or draw attention to the statement that follows us 1917 boys noun 1 the male genitals. From Seinfeld NBC 1990-98 . Both Seinfeld and his wacky neighbour Kramer Michael Richards referred to their genitals as my boys . Repeated with referential humour us 1993. 2 a group of homosexual male friends collectively the male homosexual community us 1972.