A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms

By G.A. Wilkes

Book Overview

Now available in a fourth, revised, and greatly expanded edition, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms records the ingenuity of the Australian vernacular and provides a unique insight into Australian life and culture. This well-known dictionary, first published in 1978, offers the first and the most recent colloquial coinages. Words and idioms are drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary sources--chiefly newspapers, magazines and novels--and each entry is shown in context, with origins and derivations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019553798X
• ISBN13: 9780195537987
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 1.0" x 8.4"