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Example sentences for: partridge

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

Jonathon Green has deservedly acquired the mantle of Eric Partridge as the foremost authority on British slang.
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.
The last example (Eric Partridge tells us) is a nickname for a chamberpot originating in India c. 1870, and is derived from the noise therein caused].
Eric Partridge suggests that it is coined from dud an `article of clothing' altered to incorporate attitude with reference to the dude's self-conscious manner or pose.
Finally, after exhausting the Oxford English Dictionary , I found Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unusual Words , which has almost all the expressions in it.