Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century /
Ostler, Rosemarie,
Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2003. - xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
A century's worth of old (and new) words -- 1900-1919 : Modern times -- twenties : flappers and flaming youth -- thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville -- forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe -- fifties : hipsters in Squaresville -- sixties : getting with it -- seventies : pet rocks and plumbers -- eighties : tubular times -- nineties : dot-comming into Y2K -- Good-bye to a great century.
2003008302
Americanisms.
English language--Obsolete words.
English language--20th century--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language--Slang--20th century--Dictionaries.
English language--United States--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language--Slang--United States--Dictionaries.
PE2838 / .D493 2003 PE2838
Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers : a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century / Rosemarie Ostler. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2003. - xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
A century's worth of old (and new) words -- 1900-1919 : Modern times -- twenties : flappers and flaming youth -- thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville -- forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe -- fifties : hipsters in Squaresville -- sixties : getting with it -- seventies : pet rocks and plumbers -- eighties : tubular times -- nineties : dot-comming into Y2K -- Good-bye to a great century.
2003008302
Americanisms.
English language--Obsolete words.
English language--20th century--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language--Slang--20th century--Dictionaries.
English language--United States--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language--Slang--United States--Dictionaries.
PE2838 / .D493 2003 PE2838