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.
Doug, are you on vacation or did you just take a speed reading course? I think that’s your tenth book in four days.
Doug, like the best readers, reads more than one book at a time.
Noah, I usually have a bunch of books going at once, and over the last few days I just found myself in the backstretch of a bunch of them.
He might be like me — forgets all about Goodreads for a while and then does a flurry of updating.
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!
I can’t find the definition for “ramstuginous” anywhere! Does anyone know what it means?
“Rambunctious” – according to 19th century slang dictionary I found via google search.