The Dictionary Of Americanisms, Canadianisms, Briticisms and Australianisms is a complete, modern, and comprehensive dictionary featuring a large word list of more than 20000 entries. The purpose of this book is to provide a generous sampling of words and expressions of the various spheres of life in the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Canada during the last centuries. The dictionary also features a collection of slang and colloquial expressions in these four countries in the twentieth century. It has a clear, easy-to-use format and is ideal for students, schools, libraries, tourists and anyone who is interested in varieties of English spoken in major English-speaking countries.
[ Словарь, состоящий из более чем 10000 слов и выражений наглядно отражает особые черты лексики указанных выше ареалов английского языка. Иллюстрирующий материал представляет собой цитаты их художественной литературы, газетной и журнальной периодики ].
Compiled together in this volume is the complete text of the 4th Edition (1877) of the Dictionary of Americanisms by John Russell Bartlett (which at 870 pages is 300 pages and several hundred entries larger than the 570 pages of the 2nd or 3rd Edition) and New Americanisms by Sylva Clapin (minus the superfluous word list appendix). Numerous Publisher Notes have been inserted into the text to clarify and explain words, phrases, people and events for a modern reader not conversant with those times. This is not a copy and paste job or a cheap scan; there are no missing pages, areas of blurred or obscured text, or a grey background to any of the pages. The entire work has been re-typed and formatted to produce an educational and eminently readable book of well over 475,000 words. The appendices on slang words and dialects are also included in full, with a new table of contents, references and Publisher's Foreword. This book contains terms and words from the era of the Slave Trade that some readers may find offensive. Please do not purchase if that is the case.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...by a mustache, but only occasionally. It was odd to come upon this thick crop of an obsolete and uncomely fashion; it was like running suddenly across a forgotten acquaintance whom you had supposed dead for a generation.--Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, p. 213. Goater.--A thief's term for dress. Go-down.--Of squatter origin. A go-down is a cutting in the hilly bank of a stream for enabling animals to cross it or to get to the water. Goldam.--By Goldam --A Yankee form of swearing, as also are Goloarned and Goldasted. 'Bill, are you hurt?' 'Yes, by gum; I've broke my Goldarned neck.'--American Humorist, 18S8. ' Finally Deacon Spalding broke out with: 'That Goldasted St. Louis mugwump has made suckers of us again with his cracks about coming into the league. I move we adjourn.--Cincinnati Enquirer, 1888. Golden Circle.--Knights Of The Golden Circle.--An organization formed among Copperheads (q.v.) at the North during the Civil War, to aid in the rescue of Confederate prisoners held by the United States. Also one of the alleged names of the Ku-KluxKlan. Golden City.--San Francisco, otherwise 'Frisco. Gold having been found in California in large quantities, the sobriquet is not, as sometimes is the case, altogether inappropriate. Gobsticks (Cant).--Under this curious name silver forks and spoons are known. "Gob" in English slang signifies the mouth. A very similar derivative is gobstrings for a bridle. Go-cart.--A hand-cart. Godfathers (Cant).--A flash name for "gentlemen of the jury," because in giving their verdict they name the degree of crime, first, second, third, etc., with which the accused is charged.--See Murder In First Degree. Golden Eye (Bucephala americana).--A wild grey duck, which is more popularly known as the Whistler ...
