contemporary naval jargon
Hugh Olmsted
hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET
Sat Feb 14 05:38:42 UTC 2009
Dear Jane,
Below is a listing of some 67 printed dictionaries of Russian
obscenities and other non-normative registers, jargons, and styles,
published mostly up through the year 2000 -- the coverage after that
is less complete. One of the titles represents an unpublished MS
(Uspenskii/Kostsinskii). The list is an extract from a large
database of reference sources for Russian studies which I've been
compiling. The titles are listed po-ptich'emu in standard modified
LC transliteration; after the recent discussion on problemy bukovok i
kodirovki dazhe u rusistov I hope I don't have to apologize too much
for this. You'll notice that there's one title devoted specifially
to substandard military and militarized usage (Korovushkin, Slovar'
russkogo voennogo zhargona), but plenty of the others should also be
of use if they're available.
Please let me know if the text doesn't come through legibly and usably.
I would be very grateful for any suggestions for addenda or other
modifications. Thanks!
Best wishes,
Hugh Olmsted
On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Jane Costlow wrote:
> Colleagues,
> A student of mine is working on a translation... the obscenities
> are a REAL challenge. Do you have any suggestions on pertinent
> reference works or other sources that might help? ...
> Thanks,
> Jane Costlow
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
SELECTED DICTIONARIES OF RUSSIAN SLANG, JARGON, OBSCENITIES.
extracted from H.M. Olmsted's Database of Russian Reference Sources
up to the year 2000.
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
DICTIONARIES
DICTIONARIES OF SPECIAL STYLES AND VOCABULARIES
1. OF SLANG, JARGON, ETC. ("Jargon" is typically focussed
around a particular profession or other subculture, but in the
dictionaries the distinction between jargon and general slang is not
always observed)
a. GENERAL (not specifically sub-standard)
Elistratov, Vladimir Stanislavovich \ Slovar' russkogo argo :
materialy 1980-1990-kh gg. : okolo 9000 slov, 3000 idiomaticheskikh
vyrazhenii. 2. izd., perer. i dop. M. : Russkie slovari, 2000.
694 p.
Ermakova, Ol'ga Pavlovna \ Slova, s kotorymi my vse vstrechalis' :
tolkovyi slovar' russkogo obshchego zhargona / O.P. Ermakova, E.A.
Zemskaia, R.I. Rozina ; pod obshchim rukovodstvom R.I. Rozinoi.
M. : Azbukovnik, 1999. 273 p.
Iuganov, Igor' \ Slovar' russkogo slenga : slengovye slova i
vyrazheniia 60-90-kh godov / I. Iuganov, F. Iuganova ; pod red. A.N.
Baranova. M. : Metatekst, 1997. 301 p.
Earlier ed.: Russkii zhargon 60-90-kh godov: opyt
slovaria / I. Iuganov, F. Iuganova. M.: 1994.
Krestinsky, Maria M. \ Kratkii slovar' sovremennogo russkogo
zhargona. Frankfurt/Main: Possev, 1965. 31 p.
Mokienko, V. M. \ Bol'shoi slovar' russkogo zhargona. SPb. :
Norint, 2000. 720 p.
Nikol'skii, Valerii D. \ Dictionary of contemporary Russian slang /
by UFO. M. : Panorama, 1993. 175 p.
Shchuplov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich \ Zhargon- entsiklopediia
sovremennoi tusovki / Aleksandr Shchuplov ; pri uchastii Tomasa
Maklovski i Meri Kliain. M. : "Kolokol- Press", 1998. 542 p.
(Ustami naroda)
b. BILINGUAL, RUSSIAN-ENGLISH
Nikolskii, Valerii D. \ Russian- English dictionary of contemporary
slang: a guide to the living language of today / UFO (Valery
Nikolski). 2d. ed. / rev. & enl. by James Davie. Nottingham:
Bramcote Press, 1997. xiii, 139 p.
Previous ed. published as Dictionary of contemporary Russian
slang. M. :Panorama, 1993.
c. BILINGUAL, RUSSIAN-ENGLISH ENGLISH-RUSSIAN
Shlyakhov, Vladimir \ Dictionary of Russian slang. Rev. ed.
Hauppauge: N.Y.: Barron's; Leicester: D Services, 1999. 336 p.
d. OF RECENT MOSCOW LIFE
Elistratov, Vladimir Stanislavovich \ Slovar' moskovskogo argo:
materialy 1980-1994 gg.: ok. 8,000 slov, 3,000 idiomaticheskikh
vyrazhenii. M. : Russkie slovari, 1994. 699 p.
McLovsky, Thomas (Maklovski, Tomas) \ Zhargon -- entsiklopediia
moskovskoi tusovki : nauchnoe izdanie / Tomas Maklovski, Meri Kliain,
Aleksandr Shchuplov. M. : Academia, 1997. 2 v. in 1 (Seriia
"Sobesedniki angelov")
e. OF MILITARY CULTURE
Korovushkin, V. P. \ Slovar' russkogo voennogo zhargona :
nestandartnaia leksika i frazeologiia vooruzhennykh sil i
voenizirovannykh organizatsii Rossiiskoi Imperii, SSSR i Rossiiskoi
Federatsii XVIII- XX vekov. Ekaterinburg : Izd-vo Ural'skogo un-ta,
2000. 371 p.
f. OF YOUTH CULTURE
Fain, Aleksandr \ Vse v kaif! / A. Fain, V. Lure. SPb. : Lena
Production; A. Fain, V. Lure, 1991. 195, [4] p.
Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Slovar' sovremennogo molodezhnogo
zhargona : bolee 6000 zhargonizmov. M. : EKSMO, 2007. 666 p.
Preceding edition: M. : EKSMO, 2006. 666 p.
Nikitina, T. G. \ Tak govoriat molodezh': slovar' molodezhnogo
slenga. Izd. 2-oe, ispr. i dop. SPb. : Folio-Press, 1998. 587 p.
1st ed., Tak govoriat molodezh': slovar' slenga, po
materialam 70- 90-kh godov. M.: 1996.
Shinkarenko, Iu. V. \ Bazargo: Zhargon ural'skikh podrostkov. M. :
Iunpress, 1998. 85 p.
Urban, K. \ Slovar' molodezhnogo zhargona : slova, vyrazheniia,
klichki rok- zvezd, prozvishcha uchitelei : podrobnye ob"iasneniia,
primery upotrebleniia : ok. 1600 edinits / sost. K. Urban ; red. I.A.
Sternin. Voronezh : Maloe predpriiatie "Logos", 1992. 112 p.
Walter, Harry \ Tolkovyi slovar' russkogo shkol'nogo i studencheskogo
zhargona : okolo 5000 slov i vyrazhenii / Val'ter, Kharri. M. :
AST, Astrel', Tranzitkniga, 2005. 360 p.
g. WITH FOCUS ON SEXUAL THEMES
McLovsky, Thomas (Maklovski, Tomas) \ Zhargon- entsiklopediia
seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei ot 8 mesiatsev do 18 let: nauchnoe
izdanie / Tomas Maklovski, Meri Kliain, Aleksandr Shchuplov. M. :
OOO List N'iu, 1998. 259 p. (Seriia "Sobesedniki angelov")
Bound inverted back/front to middle with the same
compilers' : Zhargon- entsiklopediia seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei
ot 18 do 80 let i dal'she. M. : OOO List N'iu, 1998.
McLovsky, Thomas (Maklovski, Tomas) \ Zhargon- entsiklopediia
seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei ot 18 do 80 let i dal'she : nauchnoe
izdanie / Tomas Maklovski, Meri Kliain, Aleksandr Shchuplov. M. :
OOO List N'iu, 1998. 313 p. (Seriia "Sobesedniki angelov")
Bound inverted back/front to middle with the same compilers'
Zhargon- entsiklopediia seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei ot 8 mesiatsev
do 18 let: M. : OOO List N'iu, 1998.
h. OF THE HIPPY MOVEMENT
Rozhanskii, Fedor Ivanovich \ Sleng khippi: materialy k slovariu.
SPb., Parizh : Izd-vo Evropeiskogo doma, 1992. 63 p.
i. OF GAY SUBCULTURE
Kozlovskii, Vladimir, \ Argo russkoi gomoseksual'noi subkul'tury :
materialy k izucheniiu. Benson, Vt. : Chalidze Publications,
1983. 228 p.
j. OF NARCOTICS SUBCULTURE
Alferov, Iu. A. \ Zhargon i tatuirovki narkomanov v ITU.
Domodedovo : RIPK rabotnikov OVD, 1992.
Borokhov, Aleksandr Davydovich \ Kogda ves' mir na ostrie igly... :
tatuirovki i zhargon narkomanov. SPb. : Rech', 2005. 328 p.
Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Zhargon i tatuirovka narkomanov:
kratkii slovar'- spravochnik. Nizhnii Novgorod: Nizhegorodskii
gaumanitarnyi tsentr, 1996. 75 p.
Miroshnichenko, L.D. \ Zhargon narkomanov : russkii : angliiskii :
dvuiazychnyi slovar'. M. : Anakharsis, 2002. 159 p.
Slovar' zhargona narkomana / Nigamedzianov, E. A., red. Ufa :
Bashkirskii gos. un-t, 2004. 162 p.
DICTIONARIES OF TABOO, OBSCENE, PRISON-CAMP & CRIMINAL SPEECH
a. GENERAL DICTIONARIES
Akhmetova, Tat'iana Vasil'evna \ Russkii mat: tolkovyi slovar'. M.:
"KOLOKOL- PRESS," 2000. 520 p.; (Ustami naroda)
Previous eds., 1996 (1st ed., 302 p.), 1997 (2d ed., 576 p.)
Baldaev, Dantsik Sergeevich \ Slovar' blatnogo vorovskogo zhargona: v
dvukh tomakh. M. : "Kampana", 1997. 2 v.
Contents:- v.1. ot A do P.- v.2. ot R do Ia.
Ben-Iakov, Bronia \ Slovar' Argo GULaga. Frankfurt/Main: Posev,
1982. 149 p.
Blinov, Vladimir. \ Russkii narodnyi mat : tolkovyi slovar' / V.
Blinov, F. Shevelev. Ekaterinburg : Ural. literator, 2002. 205 p.
Bui, Vasilii \ Russkaia zavetnaia idiomatika : veselyi slovar'
krylatykh vyrazhenii. M. : Pomovskii i partnery, 1995. 309 p.
Bykov, Vladimir Borisovich \ Russkaia fenia: slovar' sovremennogo
interzhargona asotsial'nykh elementov. München: Otto Sagner,
1992. 173 p. (Specimina philologiae Slavicae ; Bd. 94 )
Bykov, Vladimir Borisovich \ Russkaia fenia. Smolensk: TRAST-IMAKOM,
1994. 222 p.
Drummond, David Allan \ Dictionary of Russian obscenities.
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1979. 62 p.
Dubiagin, Iurii Petrovich \ Tolkovyi slovar' ugolovnykh zhargonov /
pod obshch. red. Iu. P. Dubiagina i A.G. Bronnikova; avtory Iu.P.
Dubiagin (rukovoditel') ... [et al.] M. : SP Inter-Omnis ; SP
Romos, 1991. 206 p.
Dubiagina, O.P. \ Sovremennyi russkii zhargon ugolovnogo mira:
Slovar'-spravochnik / Dubiagina, O.P. i G.F. Smirnov. M. :
Iurisprudentsiia, 2001. 352 p.
Elistratov, Vladimir Stanislavovich \ Tolkovyi slovar' russkogo
slenga : svyshe 12 000 slov i vyrazhenii, argo, kinemalogos,
zhargony M. : AST-Press kniga, 2007. 668 p.
Preceding ed.: M. : AST-Press kniga, 2005. 668 p.
Galler, Meyer \ Soviet prison camp speech: a survivor's glossary:
supplemented by terms from the works of A.I. Solzenicyn. Madison,
WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972. 216 p.
Galler, Meyer \ Soviet prison camp speech: a survivor's glossary :
supplement. Hayward, CA.: Soviet Studies, 1977. 102 p.
Grachev, Mikhail \ Iazyk iz mraka: blatnaia muzyka i fenia:
slovar'. Nizhnii Novgorod: Izd-vo "Floks," 1992. 207 p.
Horbach, Oleksa (Horbatsch, O.) \ Russische Gaunersprache / hrsg. u.
eingel. von Olexa Horbach. Frankfurt/Main: Slav. Seminar, Johann-
Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ. München: Kubon u. Sagner, 1978- v.
(Specimina Philologiae Slavicae, Bd. 16)
Ivanov, G. A. \ Khuligansko-blatnoi zhargonnyi slovar'. Donetsk :
Magiia, 2006. 320 p.
Khukka, Vladimir Semenovich \ Zhargon i abbreviatura tatuirovok
prestupnogo mira : slovar'- spravochnik. Nizhnii Novgorod : GIPP
"Nizhpoligraf", 1992. 232 p.
Kozlovskii, Vladimir \ Sobranie russkikh vorovskikh slovarei v
chetyrekh tomakh = A Collection of Russian thieves' dictionaries /
sost. i primech. Vladimira Kozlovskogo. NY : Chalidze Publications,
1983. 4 v.
Kramer, Alex A. \ Slovar' "nepriznannykh" slov i zhargona =
Dictionary of "unrecognized" and slang words. Trenton: Scientific
Russian Translating Service, 1966. 95 p.
Kveselevich, D. I. (Dmitrii Ivanovich) \ Russko-angliiskii slovar'
nenormativnoi leksiki : okolo 15,000 slov i 4,000 frazeologicheskikh
edinits = Dictionary of unconventional Russian : Russian-English /
D.I. Kveselevich. M. : Astrel' : AST, 2002. 1112 p.
Maruste, R. \ Prestupnaia subkul'tura v tatuirovkakh, zhestakh i v
slenge. Tartu: TGU, 1988. 166 p.
Basic historical and descriptive text in Estonian.
Includes pictorial dictionary of tattoos widespread in Soviet
criminal circulation, with interpretation of associated monograms,
abbreviations, and other verbal elements in Russian and Estonian.
Mokienko, Valerii Mikhailovich. \ Slovar' russkoi brani : matizmy,
obstsenizmy, evfemizmy : 4400 slov i 4000 ustoichivykh sochetanii /
V.M. Mokienko, T.G. Nikitina. SPb. : Norint, 2003. 446 p.
Plutser-Sarno, Aleksei \ Bol'shoi slovar' mata / A. Plutser-Sarno ;
vstup. st. A.D. Dulichenko, V.P. Rudneva. SPb. : Limbus Press,
2001- v.
On leaf preceding t.p.: Plutser's dictionary.
Title varies. Vol. 2: Materialy k slovariu russkogo mata.
Contents: -- t. 1 (2001). Opyt postroeniia spravochno-
bibliograficheskoi bazy dannykh leksicheskikh i frazzeologicheskikh
znachenii slova "khui". -- v. 2 (2005). Opyt postroeniia spravochno-
bibliograficheskoi bazy dannykh leksicheskikh i frazeologicheskikh
znachenii slova "pizda".
Polubinskii Veniamin Ivanovich \ Blatiaki i fenia: slovar'
prestupnogo zhargona. M. : Ob"edinennaia redaktsiia MVD Rossii,
1997. 112 p.
Russkii mat : tolkovyi slovar'. \ M. : ETS, 1998. 1 CD- ROM.
Sidorov, Aleksandr \ Slovar' sovremennogo blatnogo i lagernogo
zhargona : iuzhnaia fenia. Rostov-na-Donu : Germes, 1992. 176 p.
Skachinskii, Aleksandr \ Slovar' blatnogo zhargona v SSSR. NY :
Silver Age Press, 1982. 246 p.
Slovar' tiuremno- lagerno- blatnogo zhargona: rechevoi i graficheskii
portret sovetskoi tiur'my \ / avtory -sost. D.S. Baldaev, V.K.
Belko, I.M. Isupov. M. : Kraia Moskvy, 1992. 525 p.
In addition to the basic dictionary (p. 16-302), includes
also: synonyms by thematic group, criminal proverbs and other
expressions, an article by D.S. Likhachev on "Cherty pervobytnogo
primitivizma vorovskoi rechi" with extensive bibliography, prisoners'
card games, underground versions of Leningrad area toponyms, and a
catalog of underworld tatoos.
Slovar' vorovskogo iazyka : slova, vyrazheniia, zhesty, tatuirovki.
\ [Tiumen'?] : Nilpo, 1991. 170 p.
Slovnik korporativnogo zhargona predstavitelei prestupnogo mira i
marginalov / Lomtev, A. G., red. Stavropol' :
Stavropol'servisshkola, 2004. 318 p.
Uspenskii, Kirill Vladimirovich (pseud. Kostsinskii, Kirill) \
Slovar' russkoi nenormativnoi leksiki [MS, unpublished]
A major lifetime project by the Leningrad army officer,
writer, dissident, and prison camp survivor who emigrated to the U.S.
in 1978, and died in 1984 leaving his project incomplete. There
remains some hope that the materials he left will one day be published.
Vorivoda, I. P. \ Sbornik zhargonnykh slov i vyrazhenii,
upotrebliaemykh v ustnoi i pis'mennoi rechi prestupnym elementom.
2. izd. Alma-Ata : Tip. MVD KazSSR, 1971. [21] leaves
b. BILINGUAL, ENGLISH-RUSSIAN
Kudriavtsev, Aleksandr Iur'evich \ Anglo- russkii slovar'-
spravochnik tabuizirovannoi leksiki i evfemizmov = ABC of dirty
English: okolo 10000 slov i vyrazhenii / A.Iu. Kudriavtsev, G.D.
Kuropatkin. M : "KOMT," 1993. 303 p.
c. BILINGUAL, RUSSIAN-ENGLISH ENGLISH-RUSSIAN
Dubiagin, Iurii Petrovich \ Kratkii anglo- russkii i russko-
angliiskii slovar' ugolovnogo zhargona = Concise English- Russian and
Russian- English dictionary of the underworld / Iu. P. Dubiagin, E.A.
Teplitskii. M. : Terra, 1993. 280 p.
d. MULTILINGUAL
Mezhdunarodnyi slovar' nepristoinostei: putevoditel' po skabreznym
slovam i neprilichnym vyrazheniiam v russkom, ital'ianskom,
frantsuzskom, nemetskom, ispanskom, angliiskom iazykakh \ / pod red.
Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Kokhteva. [s.l.]: Avis-Press, 1992. 91 p.
e. ETYMOLOGICAL
Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Istoriko- etimologicheskii slovar'
vorovskogo zhargona / Grachev M.A., Mokienko V.M. SPb. : Folio-
Press, 2000. 254 p. (Seriia "Kazhdomu obo vsem")
Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Russkii zhargon : istoriko-
etimologicheskii slovar' : proiskhozhdenie zhargonnykh slov i
vyrazhenii, dostupnoe poiasnenie, primery iz tiuremnogo fol'klora.
M. : AST-Press, 2008. 334 p.
e. OF INVECTIVE & ABUSE
Arbatskii, L. \ Tolkovyi slovar' russkoi brani. Izd-e 2-e,
pererabotannoe i dopolnennoe. M. : Iauza, 2000. 428 p.
Dulichenko, Liudmila V., \ Slovar' obidnykh slov : naimenovaniia lits
s negativnym znacheniem. Tartu : Izd-vo Tartuskogo universiteta,
2000. 270 p.
Kolesnikov, Nikolai Pavlovich \ Pole russkoi brani : slovar' brannykh
slov i vyrazhenii v russkoi literature : ot N.S. Barkova i A.S.
Pushkina do nashikh dnei / N.P. Kolesnikov, E.A. Kornilov. Rostov-
na-Donu : Feniks, 1996. 380 p.
-------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the SEELANG
mailing list