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Special mention should be made of the fact that there are some items in this lexicon similar to those in the classic Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , by Eric Partridge (8th Edition, 1984), which first appeared in 1937.
The foothills of the Sierra Nevada harbor rabbit and partridge, while deeper in the mountains lurk deer.
It invites nostalgia, stirs memories of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet or, for parents born a generation later, The Partridge Family , when ...
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.