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Adding camp to an already silly show, this week's episode features former small-screen stars Erik Estrada ( CHiPs ), Adam West ( Batman ), Susan Olsen ( The Brady Bunch ), and Danny Bonaduce ( The Partridge Family ).
The foothills of the Sierra Nevada harbor rabbit and partridge, while deeper in the mountains lurk deer.
Jonathon Green has deservedly acquired the mantle of Eric Partridge as the foremost authority on British slang.
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
But an examination of Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1937) yields the Greek malakia , defined as “masturbation” and “tricky.”