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The rest (citations, timeline, full search) are for subscribers: initially £49 ($60) a year for single users, £10 ($12.50) for students. The basics (headword, definition, etymology) are freely available to the public. Will these treasures be exsie (Aus.), laanie (S.Afr., 1975), higher than a cat’s back (US, 1882)? Negatory! (US military, 1955) There are two levels of access. As the press release puts it: ‘Those who wish to know how many words James Joyce used for sexual intercourse or Charles Dickens for drunk will find their answers. Green’s Dictionary of Slang Online can be searched for definitions, first uses, etymologies, parts of speech, authors, titles, usage labels, etc.
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Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the culmination of a life’s work for Green. It has since been superseded: instead of CDoS I now turn to GDoS. I have several slang dictionaries for various countries or lexical domains, but CDoS was the most generally useful. Camera-man is from 1908.Whenever I had a query about slang (and I’ve had many), or felt like a random trawl through the underbelly of language (which was often), my first port of call, traditionally, was Chambers Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green. The word was extended to television filming devices from 1928. This sense was expanded to become the word for "picture-taking device used by photographers" (a modification of the camera obscura) when modern photography began c. 1750, Latin for "light chamber"), which uses prisms to produce on paper beneath the instrument an image which can be traced of a distant object. as a short form of Modern Latin camera obscura "dark chamber" (a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects), contrasted with camera lucida (c. Old Church Slavonic komora, Lithuanian kamara, Old Irish camra all are borrowings from Latin. 1708, "vaulted building arched roof or ceiling," from Latin camera "a vault, vaulted room" (source also of Italian camera, Spanish camara, French chambre), from Greek kamara "vaulted chamber, anything with an arched cover," which is of uncertain origin.