Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles ( DAE) is a dictionary of terms appearing in English in the United States that was published in four volumes from 1938 to 1944 by the University of Chicago Press. [1] [2] [3] Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it covers American English words and phrases in ...
The first edition was published in 1859, with the full title and subtitle: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: used at the present day in the streets of London, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the houses of Parliament, the dens of St. Giles, and the palaces of St. James : preceded by a history of cant and vulgar ...
First edition. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ( AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins. It is currently in its fifth edition (since 2011). Before HarperCollins acquired certain business lines from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2022, the family of American Heritage dictionaries had long been ...
Slay (slang) Slay is a slang colloquialism that possibly originated during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture. Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay has since gained a definition meaning being impressed or term of agreement.
Webster's Dictionary. Webster's Dictionary is any of the English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), an American lexicographer, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor. " Webster's " has since become a genericized trademark in the ...
Historical dictionary. A historical dictionary or dictionary on historical principles is a dictionary which deals not only with the latterday meanings of words but also the historical development of their forms and meanings. It may also describe the vocabulary of an earlier stage of a language's development without covering present-day usage at ...
History. Much of the history of the baguette is speculation;: 35 however, some facts can be established. Long, stick-like breads in France became more popular during the 18th century,: 5 French bakers started using "gruau," a highly refined Hungarian high-milled flour in the early 19th century,: 13 Viennese steam oven baking was introduced to Paris in 1839 by August Zang,: 12 and the Austrian ...
Scrod or schrod ( / ˈskrɒd /) is a small cod or haddock, and sometimes other whitefish, used as food. It is usually served as a fillet, though formerly it was often split instead. In the wholesale fish business, scrod is the smallest weight category of the major whitefish. [1] From smallest to largest, the categories are scrod, market, large ...