Jordan,
Wandering a bit farther afield, I will mention that with some regularity
I need to look up jargon (tech or otherwise) and slang, either domestic
or foreign. OED is unlikely to offer much help there. For this, I've
managed to accumulate a few good reference books for my library. Another
good place to start for American slang is the online
Urban Dictionary, June 4: emptiful http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Indeed, the Urban Dictionary is an interesting piece of work. It even
has spinoffs in other countries, like le Dictionnaire urbain in France
(http://dictionnaire-urbain.fr/) or Urbaani sanakirja in Finland
(https://www.urbaanisanakirja.com/), and let me add that the latter has
a better rating system than the original. A UK slang dictionary is
located at http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/index.htm. I'd like to mention
also The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang (http://odps.org/) which
has some entertaining tidbits of information well worth browsing.
For a long time I've also had a really useful smaller paperback
dictionary of common foreign words, phrases and abbreviations around
here somewhere (including from the Latin), but I'm seeing that it is
missing from the shelf at the moment, so I can't identify it more
specifically.
For looking up foreign words, a good source might be Wikipedia (e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_diem). There is even a compendium of
lists of foreign words according to the language of origin
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_by_country_or_language_of_origin).
Oxford dictionaries has a nice small list of foreign words:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/foreign-words-and-phrases
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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