Booze Quote by Susie Dent

The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne'er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider who might…

— Susie Dent

Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms designed to…

— Susie Dent

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

— Susie Dent

Almost half the adult population finds discussing the subject of money difficult. Slang words help us to navigate these conversations by making us feel…

— Susie Dent

Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as…

— Susie Dent

“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words.…

— Peter O'Donnell

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in…

— Anonymous

I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but…

— Stella Maxwell

Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere…

— Joseph Furphy

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

— Anthony Burgess

My life changed forever when I found out the word slang was actually slang for shortened language

— Ramandeep Singh

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that…

— David Crystal