William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

Hotten's Dictionary included a " Glossary of the Rhyming Slang ", the first known such work.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2005 ), The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2007 ), and The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English ( 2008 ) give a secondary meaning as " any blind, unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy.

* Dictionary of Carnival and Sideshow Slang

John Camden Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang Dictionary in 1874 as a " term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident.

John Camden Hotten, in his Slang Dictionary of 1859, makes reference to " their use of a peculiar slang language " when describing the costermongers of London's East End.

In 2002, two books on Polari were published, Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men, and Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang ( both by Paul Baker ).

' And as his own character Corinthian Tom explains in Life in London, ' A kind of cant phraseology is current from one end of the Metropolis to the other, and you will scarcely be able to move a single step, my dear JERRY, without consulting a Slang Dictionary, or having some friend at your elbow to explain the strange expressions which, at every turn, will assail your ear.

According to Robert Chapman's The Dictionary of American Slang, the adjective " gay " was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920.

* Eric Partridge-A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary published in 2004 is an up-to-date record of Australian slang.

His first major work on slang, Slang Today and Yesterday, appeared in 1933, and his well-known Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English followed in 1937.

* A Dictionary of Forces ’ Slang.

* A Dictionary of RAF Slang.

* Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English defines ' pub crawl ' as both a noun and a verb, with the noun ( dating from 1915 ) being defined as " a drinking session that moves from one licensed premises to the next, and so on ", and the verb ( 1937 ) meaning " to move in a group from one drinking establishment to the next, drinking at each.

The term " toothing " was included in the 2006 version of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Examples include ( for French ) the Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions, edited by Alain Rey ( Paris: Le Robert 2006 ), and ( for English ) Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 8th edition, London: Routledge 2002 ).

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Colloquialisms and Catch-phrases, Solecisms and Catachreses, Nicknames and Vulgarisms.

The phrase " egg and spoon " features in The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ; its use, along with the idiom good egg with which it is sometimes confused, is frowned upon by the Metropolitan Police Service on the grounds of it being derogatory and rhyming slang for " coon ".

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.

" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.

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* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary

* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

Others, such as the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, define it as the " English language as it spoken and written in England.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Young currently supports Creative Commons, the Public Knowledge Project, the Dictionary of Old English, the Internet Archive, ibiblio, the NCSU eGames, and the Bald Head Island Conservancy, among others.

The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:

* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).