Book details

The Oxford Dictionary of New Words

The Oxford Dictionary of New Words

Title:
The Oxford Dictionary of New Words
Publication date:
1998
Annotation:
Would you rather mosh or go canyoning? Would you spazz out if someone posted you a spam? For the answers of these questions and for the futher information on the hot words of the 1980s and 1990s, this major new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words is your essential and completely up-to-date guide. Covers over 2 000 high- profile words into context. Entertaining quotations put the words into context. Graphic icons show the subject field of each word.

Bibliographic description

The Oxford Dictionary of New Words / ed.: E. Knowles, J. Elliot.- New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.- 357 p.