Online dictionaries of slang and colloquialism
November 16, 2005
At today’s presentation of the seniors’ graduation theses the topic of reference works for informal and colloquial English briefly came up. The dictionaries in print are nice as far as they go, they tend to be a decade or so behind the times, however, and frequently aren’t good enough when it comes to current movies or internet postings.
I have found the following online dictionaries useful:
The last of the three is particularly interesting in that it is a collaborative dictionary and solicits user input. All three of these slang dictionaries are relatively unknown, however. The big one is this, also collaborative:
Note that all of the sites listed above contain language that is frequently labeled “foul” or “vulgar”, so if you are easily offended—visit not!
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