Example sentences for: partridge

How can you use “partridge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Indeed, Shakespeare would have been delighted by a Harrison rendition of many of the more than a thousand naughty passages that have so diligently been compiled by Eric Partridge in his Shakespeare's Bawdry . Partridge's are all instances of intentionally naughty entries.

  • Partridge came through Old French and Latin perdīcem, from Greek pérdīx `partridge,' which is related to pérdesthai `to fart.

  • It is many years since my contemporaries and I got a kick out of seeing even the bowdlerized f**k in print (in Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 1935), and fug in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead allowed prudery to mock itself.

  • Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.

  • (Compare Greek perdix partridge. and perdesthai to break wind.)


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