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Eric Honeywood Partridge (1894 – 1979) was a New Zealand/British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang.

Works (selected)

  • A Charm of Words. New York, Macmillan Co., 1961 (copyright 1960)
  • A New Testament Word Book: a Glossary. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1940. Republished New York, Books for Libraries Press, 1970. The 1987 republication by the Christian publisher Barbour & Company of Uhricksville, Ohio as The Book of New Testament Word Studies, with copyright claimed by the publisher, appears to be a copyright violation.
  • The 'Shaggy Dog' Story. New York, Philosophical Library, 1954
  • A Dictionary of the Underworld. London, Macmillan Co., 1949; reprinted with new addenda, New York, Bonanza Books, 1961
  • From Sanskrit to Brazil. Hamish Hamilton.
  • Here, There and Everywhere. Hamish Hamilton.
  • Name Into Word. Secker & Warburg
  • A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Routledge & Kegan Paul/Stein and Day.
  • A Dictionary of Clichés. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • A Dictionary of Forces’ Slang.
  • A Dictionary of RAF Slang. Michael Joseph, 1945; new edition with an introduction by Russell Ash, Pavilion Books, 1990 ISBN 978-1851455263
  • Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang.
  • Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1958). Reprint: Greenwich House, New York, 1983. ISBN 0-517-41425-2. Reprint: Random House Value Publishing(1988)
  • A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 1st edition: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1937.
    2nd edition 1938
    3rd edition 1949
    4th edition 1951
    5th edition in two volumes, supplement much enlarged, 1961. Reprinted in 1 vol. 1963. Mary Martin Books. Adelaide, South Australia.
    6th edition 1967
    7th edition 1970
    8th edition London and New York, Routledge, 1984
  • Shakespeare's Bawdy. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1947)/New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. (1948), Reprint: Routledge (1991) ISBN 0-415-05076-6
  • Slang Today and Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • A Smaller Slang Dictionary.
  • You Have A Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and its Allies.
  • Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English. Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books. Reprint: W. W. Norton & Company (1997) ISBN 0-393-31709-9
  • Name This Child. Hamish Hamilton.
  • Name Your Child. Evans Bros.
  • Eric Partridge In His Own Words. Edited by David Crystal. 1980. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York. ISBN 0-02-528960-8.

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