Continuing my Blogtown series, where I peruse my favorite book in the world, the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume I, A-G by J.E. Lighter. This week's slang is brought to ...

XIU XIU’s Top ten absurd/baffling, possibly charming, possibly rotten historical slang words and phrases from the absurdity of what is amerikkka and what was the United States. My paternal grandfather ...

Slang lexicographer Jonathon Green's massive, three-volume Dictionary of Slang is the most authoritative work on the back roads and byways of the English language. His database of slang contains about ...

"All ridiculous words make their first entry into a language by familiar phrases; I dare not answer for these that they will not in time be looked upon as a part of our tongue."—SPECTATOR.