Subject: English language › Slang

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• The Vulgar Tongue: Buckish Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence by Francis Grose (293 copies)
• The Dictionary of American Slang by Robert L. Chapman (230 copies)
• Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English:… by Eric Partridge (183 copies)
• A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge (161 copies)
• Slang and Euphemism by Richard A. Spears (136 copies)
• Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk by Hugh Rawson (125 copies)
• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green (122 copies)
• Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky (119 copies)
• Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster… by Max Decharne (117 copies)
• Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes (115 copies)
• Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by John Ayto (102 copies)
• Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and… by Hugh Rawson (98 copies)
• Foyle's Philavery by Christopher Foyle (94 copies)
• The Big Book of Filth: 6500 Sex Slang Words and Phrases by Jonathon Green (91 copies)
• A Dictionary of Historical Slang (Penguin Reference Books) by Eric Partridge (81 copies)
• Wicked Words (Horrible Histories Special) by Terry Deary (78 copies)
• A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from… by Eric Partridge (75 copies)
• Dictionary of the Underworld (Wordsworth Collection) by Eric Partridge (75 copies)
• NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial… by Richard A. Spears (71 copies)
• Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation… by Kate Burridge (70 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference) by John Ayto (66 copies)
• Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms by Paul Dickson (66 copies)
• A Dictionary Of Yiddish Slang & Idioms by Fred Kogos (64 copies)
• Slang Through the Ages by Jonathon Green (63 copies)
• Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined by Aaron Peckham (59 copies)
• I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American… by Stuart Berg Flexner (58 copies)
• Thesaurus of Slang (Wordsworth Collection) by Esther Lewin (52 copies)
• Gay talk: Formerly entitled The queens' vernacular : a gay… by Bruce Rodgers (52 copies)
• Rhyming Cockney Slang by Jack Jones (52 copies)
• Yo, Jo! by Rachel Isadora (48 copies)
• Slanguage a Dictionary of Irish Slang by Bernard Share (41 copies)
• Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey (39 copies)
• Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang by Paul Baker (36 copies)
• Fanboys and Overdogs: The Language Report by Susie Dent (35 copies)
• The Slang Thesaurus by Jonathon Green (34 copies)
• Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report by Susie Dent (32 copies)
• A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang by Julian Franklyn (32 copies)
• Slang - To-Day and Yesterday by Eric Partridge (27 copies)
• The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang by Jonathon Green (23 copies)
• The Australian language by Sidney J. Baker (23 copies)
• The American thesaurus of slang; a complete reference book… by Lester V. Berrey (23 copies)
• Slang and its analogues by John Stephen Farmer (22 copies)
• The Long Trail: Soldiers Songs and Slang, 1914 to 1918 by John Brophy (20 copies)
• The Underground Dictionary by Eugene E. Landy (19 copies)
• Language most foul by Ruth Wajnryb (19 copies)
• An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths,… by Geoffrey Hughes (19 copies)
• Trash Cash, Fizzbos, and Flatliners: A Dictionary of… by Sid Lerner (18 copies)
• Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky (17 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (Oxford Paperback… by John Ayto (16 copies)
• The anatomy of dirty words by Edward Sagarin (14 copies)

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