Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon

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Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon is an academic publication relating to the fictional Buffyverse established by TV series, Buffy and Angel.

**Slayer Slang**

Author	Michael Adams
Subject(s)	Buffyverse
Genre(s)	academic publication, Media Study
Publisher	Oxford University Press, USA
Released	July 1, 2003
Pages	320
Size and Weight	9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches / 1.39 pounds
ISBN	0195160339

1 Book description
2 Contents
3 Glossary examples
4 Footnotes
5 External links

[edit] Book description

A distinguishing feature of the series, Buffy was the way in which the show's writers play with language: making new words, changing existing ones, and turning common usage around. Michael Adams argues this creates a resonant lexicon reflecting power in both youth culture and television on the changes in American slang.

[edit] Contents

Michael Adams starts the book with a synopsis of the program's history and a defense of ephemeral language. The main body of the work is the detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with dialogue. The book concludes with a bibliography and a lengthy index, a guide to sources (novels based on the show, magazine articles about the show, and language culled from the official posting board) and an appendix of slang-making suffixes.

Chapter	Title
Intro	"Introduction" (by Jane Espenson)
01	"Slayer Slang"
02	"Making Slayer Slang"
03	"Studying the Micro-Histories of Words"
04	"Ephemeral Language"
GLOSSARY	"Slayer Slang: Glossary"

[edit] Glossary examples

A few examples from the Slayer Slang glossary:

bitca n

1997 Sep 15 Whedon When She Was Bad "[Willow:] 'I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?' [Giles:] 'Willow, I think we're all a little old to be spelling things out.' [Xander:] 'A bitca?'".. ^[1]

break and enterish adj

Suitable for crime 1999 Mar 16 Petrie Enemies "I'll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish."..^[2]

carbon-dated adj

Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.' [Giles:] 'It's dated?' [Buffy:] 'It's carbon-dated.'"..^[3]

cuddle-monkey n

Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey."..^[4]

[edit] Footnotes

↑ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 142.
↑ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 145.
↑ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 160.
↑ - Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (Hardback 2003), page 166.

[edit] External links

Phil-books.com - Review of this book

Buffyverse academic books

Buffyverse academic books in alphabetical order.

Buffyverse & related topics
Main	Canon \| Index Chronology: Ancient \| Modern \| BS1 \| BS2 \| BS3 \| BS4/AS1 \| BS5/AS2 \| BS6/AS3 \| BS7/AS4 \| AS5 \| Future \| Flashbacks
Buffy	Characters (main) \| Characters (minor) \| Episodes \| Plot \| Quotes Comics \| DVDs \| Film \| Novels \| Pilot (unaired)
Angel	Characters (main) \| Characters (minor) \| Episodes \| Plot \| Quotes Comics \| Corrupt (unaired) \| DVDs \| Novels \| Pitch tape
Expanded Uni.	Comics \| Fray \| Novels \| Slayer timeline \| Tales of Slayer (prose) \| Tales of Slayers \| Tales of Vampires \| Video Games New: Auld Lang Syne \| Asylum \| Bad Bargain \| Blackout \| Deathless \| Go Ask Malice \| Masks \| Portal Through Time \| Spike vs Dracula
Auxiliary	Academia \| Cast & crew \| Fan made productions \| Rare promos \| Unofficial parodies \| Undeveloped productions Buffy Animated \| Card Game \| Guidebooks \| Magazines \| RPGs \| Spike movie \| Toys
Powers	Angel Investigations \| Circle of the Black Thorn \| Order of Aurelius \| The First Evil \| The Initiative \| Monsters \| Old Ones \| The Powers That Be \| Ra-Tet \| Scooby Gang \| Senior Partners \| Watchers' Council \| Wolfram & Hart
People	Adam \| Amy \| Andrew \| Angel \| Anya \| Buffy \| Caleb \| Connor \| Cordelia \| Dawn \| Darla \| Doyle \| Drusilla \| Faith \| Fred \| Giles \| Glory \| Gunn \| Harmony \| Holtz \| Illyria \| Jasmine \| Jenny \| Joyce \| Jonathan \| Kate \| Lilah \| Lindsey \| Lorne \| Master \| Mayor \| Oz \| Prof. Walsh \| Riley \| Spike \| Tara \| Warren \| Wesley \| Willow \| Xander
Places	L.A. \| Sunnydale Bronze \| Caritas \| Hellmouth \| Hyperion \| Library \| Magic Box \| Pylea \| Sunnydale High
Music	Complete Tracklist \| Use of Music in Buffy & Angel Buffy album \| Dingoes Ate My Baby \| Film \| Radio Sunnydale \| Live Fast, Die Never \| Once More, with Feeling
Key Terminology	"Demon" \| "Slayer" \| "Vampire" \| "Watcher" \| "Werewolf" \| "Witch" "Child of Senior Partners" \| Shanshu \| Sunnydale Syndrome \| Tro-Clon