Talking Dirty: Slang, Expletives, and Curses from Around the World.
- Author / Editor
- Ellis, Jeremy R.
Talking Dirty: Slang, Expletives, and Curses from Around the World.
- Published
- Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing, 1996.
- Physical Description
- xi, 145 pp.
- Description
- A discursive lexicon of "dirty" language, sexual and scatological, including a brief section (pp. 8-14) on Chaucer’s vocabulary, listing sample words and describing several scenes and examples from MilT, WBP, and elsewhere. Reprinted under the title "Come Again?: Racy Slang, Expletives, and Curses from Around the World" (New York: Skyhorse, 2012).
- Alternative Title
- Come Again?: Racy Slang, Expletives, and Curses from Around the World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies