6 ms·
Green's Dictionary of Slang
- fernly 3y agoWiggy. [1] https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=wiggy https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=wiggy
- webwielder2 3y agoIf the word of the week is "act up", I'm not enticed to think this is a more useful or detailed reference source than Urban Dictionary, or, you know, a dictionary.
- webwielder2 3y agoBy the way, the built-in dictionary app in macOS is one of the most slept-on of Apple's many slept-on built-in apps over the years.
- cleverpatrick 3y agoFrom the About page: Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. ad 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the coverage of over 500 years of slang from c. 1500 onwards. The printed version of the dictionary received the Dartmouth Medal for outstanding works of reference from the American Library Association in 2012; fellow recipients include the Dictionary of American Regional English, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. It has been hailed by the American New York Times as ‘the pièce de résistance of English slang studies’ and by the British Sunday Times as ‘a stupendous achievement, in range, meticulous scholarship, and not least entertainment value’. On this website the dictionary is now available in updated online form for the first time, complete with advanced search tools enabling search by definition and history, and an expanded bibliography of slang sources from the early modern period to the present day. Since the print edition, nearly 60,000 quotations have been added, supporting 5,000 new senses in 2,500 new entries and sub-entries, of which around half are new slang terms from the last five years.
- dougb5 3y agoRead more entries, then. You'll find that it's a labor of love, if you're curious. And it is a dictionary, yes. https://greensdictofslang.com/about/ https://greensdictofslang.com/about/
- cleverpatrick 3y agoabandannad https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/emt4cyy https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/emt4cyy
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- jijji 3y agothis looks to be a book about historical slang, whereas a modern slang reference probably is Urbandictionary.com... it looks like most of the words referenced in this catalog are not commonly used today
- cookie_monsta 3y agoIt's hard to pick the line of where these listings start and end. Selfie isn't in there but gyatt is...
- chriscjcj 3y agoIndeed. I would have thought "shades" (slang for sunglasses) would have been in there, but it's not. Perhaps it's not really slang and just a synonym.
- brvsft 3y agoIn high school, I bought a used copy of a similar book for 50 cents at a book fair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Unconventional_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Unco... It was fun to just thumb through it and find bizarre old phrases like "cat's pyjamas." Cool to see an open and digitized version of something similar, especially something better than urbandictionary, which can be useful, but also has a lot of repeat entries and a stupid ability to downvote correct entries.
- t-3 3y agoDoes anyone know if there's a dict formatted version of this anywhere?
- idempotent_ 3y agoAnother great resource for bizarre and obscure verbiage - https://phrontistery.info/ https://phrontistery.info/
- fluentbyfire 3y agoIf ninnyhammer.com isn't taken yet, I'm grabbing it.
- geekodour 3y agonice! there's also https://doesnottranslate.com/ https://doesnottranslate.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DoesNotTranslate/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DoesNotTranslate/
- WilTimSon 3y agoThe top post on that subreddit is hilarious: "[Chinese] 報復性熬夜 (revenge bedtime procrastination) - a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours" They have some interesting variety there, too.
- virtuallynathan 3y agoThere’s more than one slang dictionary, it seems… here’s one I found in person at UCSD’s library: https://photos.app.goo.gl/J3rCLtbJMEn4SkKq8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/J3rCLtbJMEn4SkKq8
- jamesblonde 3y agoAll irish slang i can think of is in there.
- benreesman 3y agoI can’t wait for the Gen Z stuff to make the cutoff. https://images.app.goo.gl/xjYschXcPVrECeVD9 https://images.app.goo.gl/xjYschXcPVrECeVD9
- br3d 3y agoYou seem to have linked just the thumbnail here. Got the full size?
- benreesman 3y agoThis is what the share button gives me. You can google for “gen z programming”. https://images.app.goo.gl/n2ZNK8JoeUvZe5iN9 https://images.app.goo.gl/n2ZNK8JoeUvZe5iN9 edit: I did not know that Yeet was a real thing in programming, even as a placeholder. This is excellent: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Yeet.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Yeet.html
- Frotag 3y agohttps://i.redd.it/vh37k2ep2bcc1.png https://i.redd.it/vh37k2ep2bcc1.png https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1963h4k/csharpforgenz/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1963h4k/cs...
- tetris11 3y agoI was caught "abaft the wheelhouse" in surprise at this website. I don't think I'm using the phrase right.
- EB-Barrington 3y ago[dead]
- weinzierl 3y agoAs someone whose mother tongue isn't English, I find the Urban Dictionary incredibly useful sometimes. It's sad sad it is blocked in virtually any corporate network.
- wodenokoto 3y agoYou trusts it’s definitions as more than jokes?
- xanderlewis 3y agoYeah; its usefulness is at least partially diminished by the fact that like 95% of entries are basically vandalism.
- nerdponx 3y agoThat's always been part of the fun.
- vundercind 3y agoIt used to be pretty good but the last three or four times I’ve tried to look something up I’ve not found anything that fits the usage I’ve seen, and most or all entries are clearly someone trying to “make fetch happen” (promote some definition their friend circle used for a week then dropped) or making a “joke” (just spam).
- grotorea 3y agoYou think it's that bad? Usually when I search a definition it makes sense in the context that caused me to search for the definition.
- weinzierl 3y agoExactly, it often just gives the right clue. For native speakers connotation is often trivial, but for us it's difficult and a source that almost grotesquely exaggerates is perfect for picking up that.
- pax 3y agoWhat would be a programmatic approach to find a list of most rarely used words (in any language?). I'm thinking, loop a list of words from a dictionary, and see how many results a search engine would return (filtering out dictionary results) - it would take a while - most languages have some hundred thousand words.
- nilamo 3y agoMaybe download an archive of Wikipedia articles and build a word occurrence dictionary out of that to compare? It would be much faster than a ton of separate search queries
- wolverine876 3y agoThere are various tools that professionals use to analyze this question. Google Books' Ngrams data seems to be popular. Here's a paper whose methodology addresses some of your question: Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 331, 176-182 (2011). DOI:10.1126/science.1199644 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1199644 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1199644
- wolverine876 3y agoThe NY Times review provides plenty of useful context, including other slang dictionaries: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/books/review/slanguage-books-review.html?pagewanted=all https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/books/review/slanguage-bo...
- kdmoyers 3y agoGreen's interview on the Butter No Parsnips podcast. He sounds like an amusing guy! https://open.spotify.com/episode/6WNG3aoS0sAu4Uija7xP3X https://open.spotify.com/episode/6WNG3aoS0sAu4Uija7xP3X
- derbOac 3y agoI loved this, although I wish there was a wordnet-like way of browsing it, or a thesaurus or something.