Review: Dictionary Of American Slang

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Dictionary Of American Slang
Dictionary Of American Slang by Harold Wentworth
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

So, yeah, well, I do read dictionaries, including this one. I acknowledge freely that I did not read the appendices, but I did read the dictionary. The plot sometimes drags, and character development is thin, but how else are you going to run across expressions like fair dinkum, creep dive, badly plonked, smoudge, or ramstuginous? I ask you.

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Noah
Noah
8 years ago

Doug, are you on vacation or did you just take a speed reading course? I think that’s your tenth book in four days.

bethyada
8 years ago
Reply to  Noah

Doug, like the best readers, reads more than one book at a time.

Dunsworth
Dunsworth
8 years ago
Reply to  Noah

He might be like me — forgets all about Goodreads for a while and then does a flurry of updating.

Kyle Grindberg
Kyle Grindberg
8 years ago
Reply to  Noah

Never mind, I really should get in the habit of checking more than just the first page of Google results…

It means, “rambunctious: rowdy, disorderly or boisterous,” in case anyone else was dying to know!

Kyle Grindberg
Kyle Grindberg
8 years ago

I can’t find the definition for “ramstuginous” anywhere! Does anyone know what it means?

Ministry Addict
7 years ago
Reply to  Kyle Grindberg

“Rambunctious” – according to 19th century slang dictionary I found via google search.