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The chapter opens with word squares and variations, like the compound word square invented by Hairy Partridge:
Partridge came through Old French and Latin perdīcem, from Greek pérdīx `partridge,' which is related to pérdesthai `to fart.
Those who have always thought (or been taught) that Hamlet's Get thee to a nunnery rudely suggests that poor Ophelia hie herself to a brothel, Professor Spevack, ignoring Eric Partridge and other Shakespeare scholars, will have none of that interpretation.
Born in 1884, Partridge died in 1979; Paul Beale has picked up the reins in an able manner and continues to charge ahead.
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.”