Are you a bobo or a wombat? Have you ever been tempted to open the kimono or kick dead whales up the beach? Have you been touched by re-enchantment or threatened by infobia? If your answer to any of these questions is 'I'm not sure' or, indeed, 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of "Shoot the Puppy". Amusing and informative, it guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about the contemporary world and our attitudes to it.

Shoot The Puppy: A Survival Guide To The Ridiculous Jargon Of Modern Life

Reference

THORNE, Tony

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Penguin Uk

Amusing and informative, this book guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about the contemporary world and our attitudes to it.

Shoot the Puppy: A Survival Guide to the Curious Jargon of Modern Life

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Penguin Global

Children of the Night

Religion & Spirituality

Orion Pub Co

A century after Bram Stoker made the Vampire one of the most potent images in all literature, the cult of the undead is as alive as ever. Not only on celluloid and in the pages of fiction, but in the S&amp;M clubs of New York City, in Midwest high schools and English pubs, across the forests of Puerto Rico and the jungles of Malaysia, the creature walks among us. In Children of the Night Tony Thorne provides the ultimate account of the history, meaning, and resonance of the Vampire, drawing on explorations in Eastern Europe, new theories of the origin of the Vampire and exclusive interviews with contemporary living Vampires, the very latest incarnations of a phenomenon which simply will not die.

Children of the Night: Of Vampires and Vampirism

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Gollancz

From A to Z: Aim archie at the armitage brownie hound cassava dingleberries el ropo four-by-two get Chinese have the painters in idiot dancing jam sandwich kangaroo it lip service meathooks necktie party Ozzie and Harriet pearl diver quiche out rough end of the pineapple surfboard tray-bits under velcrohead write one's name on the lawn x-rated yodel in the canyon zippersniffer. There is a linguistic riot going on the English-speaking world over, in the form of energetic, informal speech, extraordinary for its wit, quirkiness, and biting satire. The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the most comprehensive guide to slang, gathers more than 5,000 colloquialisms, puns, similes, metaphors, and double entendres -- from sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll; to fads, fashion, and cults; to taboos, obscenities, and euphemisms -- that have enriched our language for the past forty years. Most entries have multiple definitions that are enlivened by examples of usage.

Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

Pantheon

No slang-worthy subject is too taboo for this collection of more than 15,000 definitions of words that allude to drugs, sports, contemporary society, and a seemingly unending supply of slang terms for sex and bodily functions. Fully revised and expanded, and with lively examples of usage throughout, this up-to-the-minute reference paints a vivid picture of our cultural and social preoccupations while bringing intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence back to the linguistic frontline.

A&C Black

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

BLOOMSBURY

Presenting a portrait of the English language since the 1950s, this dictionary contains over 6000 examples of taboo words, swear words and euphemisms. It includes Australian, American, New Zealand and regional British slang.

Fads, Fashions and Cults: From Acid House to Zoot Suit

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

Dictionary of Popular Culture: Fads, Fashions & Cults

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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