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Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century

Title: Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler.
Author: Ostler, Rosemarie.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Description

xv, 239 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Lists the meanings and backgrounds of thousands of twentieth-century catch phrases, slang terms, and buzzwords, many of which have fallen out of use, in a volume complemented by historical and sociological essays.

Alternative Title

Decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century

Subject

Genre/Form

Dictionary
controlled vocabularies.
dictionaries.
Controlled vocabularies.
Dictionaries.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Vocabulaires contrôlés.
Dictionnaires.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.

Contents

Introduction : a century's worth of old (and new) words -- 1900-1919 : Modern times -- The twenties : flappers and flaming youth -- The thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville -- The forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe -- The fifties : hipsters in Squaresville -- The sixties : getting with it -- The seventies : pet rocks and plumbers -- The eighties : tubular times -- The nineties : dot-comming into Y2K -- Afterword : good-bye to a great century -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture credits.

ISBN

0195161467
9780195161465

LCCN

2003008302

OCLC

ocm52079651
52079651
SCSB-8863834

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library