Eric Partridge
1894 – 1979
87 works on record
Works
The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English
2007
Dictionary of the Underworld (Wordsworth Collection)
1998
The Wordsworth Book of Usage & Abusage
1997
A Dictionary of Traditional First Names
1992
A concise dictionary of slang and unconventional English
1989
The book of New Testament word studies
1987
A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day
1986
Eric Partridge in his own words
1980
A dictionary of catch phrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day
1977
A dictionary of catch phrases
1977
MacMillan Dictionary of Historical Slang
1974
A dictionary of historical slang
1972
Glimpses
1971
Name into word; proper names that have become common property
1970
A critical medley
1969
Here, there, and everywhere; essays upon language
1969
Name your child
1968
Smaller slang dictionary
1961
Adventuring among words
1961
A first book of quotations
1958
Origins
1958
You have a point there
1953
From Sanskrit to Brazil
1952
British and American English since 1900
1951
Name into word
1949
Words at war, words at peace
1948
Shakespeare's bawdy
1947
Journey to the edge of morning
1946
A dictionary of R. A. F. slang
1945
Usage and abusage
1942
A dictionary of cliche?s
1940
A dictionary of clichés
1940
A covey of Partridge
1937
Slang to-day and yesterday
1933
Words, words, words!
1933
A book of English prose, 1700-1914
1926
Eighteenth century English romantic poetry
1924
The French romantics' knowledge of English literature (1820-1848)
1924
Eighteenth century English romantic poetry (up till the publication of the "Lyrical ballads," 1798)
1924
A dictionary of slang and unconventional English
1900
Dictionary of effective speech
A Charm of Words
A dictionary of cliche s
The new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English
2006
The Shaggy Dog Story
1991
Dictionary of Royal Air Force Slang
1990
Frank Honywood, private
1987
Smaller Slang Dictionary (1425628)
1987
Shakp Bawdy
1986
Here, There & Everywhere
1977
A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized
1970
Literary session
1969
Usage and Abusage Guide to Good English
1965
A book of essential quotations
1964
The gentle art of lexicography as pursued and experienced by an addict
1963
A dictionary of clichés, with an introductory essay
1962
Comic alphabets
1961
English gone wrong
1957
What's the meaning?
1956
Notes on punctuation
1955
English Course for Human Beings
1954
The shaggy dogʾ story
1953
Chamber of horrors
1952
Here, there and everywhere
1950
English
1949
English - a course for human beings
1949
A dictionary of Forces' slang, 1939-1945
1948
A dictionary of R.A.F. slang, with an introductory essay
1945
A dictionary of abbreviations
1943
A dictionary of abbreviations, with especial attention to war-time abbreviations
1942
A dictionary of abbreviations, with special attention to war-time abbreviations
1942
A dictionary of cliches with an introductory essay
1940
Precis writing
1940
A New Testament word book
1940
Précis writing
1940
Slang
1940
The world of words
1938
Name this child
1936
Slang to-day and yesterday, with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American, and Australian slang
1933
Literary sessions
1932
The first three years
1930
Pirates, highwaymen and adventurers
1927
The three Wartons
1927
Robert Eyres Landor
1927
The poems of Cuthbert Shaw and Thomas Russell
1925
The French romantics' knowledge of English literature (1820-1848) according to contemporary French memoirs, letters and periodicals
1924
More stories from the Arabian Nights