contemporary naval jargon
William Ryan
wfr at SAS.AC.UK
Sat Feb 14 12:46:04 UTC 2009
Hugh - what a tremendously useful list. I am sure many will be grateful.
Will
Hugh Olmsted wrote:
> 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 One of the titles represents an unpublished MS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
>
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>
> 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. M�nchen: 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. M�nchen: 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.
>
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