nadsat
See also: Nadsat
English
Proper noun
nadsat
- Alternative letter-case form of Nadsat.
- 1974, Style, volume 8, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas, ISSN 0039-4238, OCLC 732867718, page 475:
- […] Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, narrated by its teenage punk of a protagonist in an argot called nadsat, which is composed (a psychologist in the book explains) of "odd bits of rhyming slang. A bit of gypsy talk, too. But most of its roots are Slav." […] Despite the dazzling tour de force Burgess brings off, l have not included A Clockwork Orange in my discussion for several reasons. First, nadsat is primarily a parody of the exclusiveness and ephemerality of teenage slang: […]
- 2016, Nicholas Pegg, “[The Songs from A to Z] Girl Loves Me”, in The Complete David Bowie, new (7th) expanded and updated edition, London: Titan Books, →ISBN:
- Concocted from various sources including rhyming slang, modified Russian and Slavic vocabularies, and a dash of pure invention on Burgess's part, nadsat captivated [David] Bowie, particularly after he had heard it spoken aloud in Stanley Kubrick's celebrated film adaptation. […] Within days of seeing Kubrick's film in January 1972, David had incorporated the nadsat word "droog" (Russian for "friend", and the term given by Alex to his fellow hoodlums) into the lyric of his latest song 'Suffragette City'.
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Anagrams
- astand, dastan, satDNA, tandas
French
Noun
nadsat m (uncountable)
- Nadsat
- 2015 August 26, “« Orange mécanique », féroce symphonie”, in Le Monde:
- A l'exception de la fin, Kubrick respecta à la lettre le roman de Burgess et s'attacha à reproduire dans les dialogues la langue inventée par l'écrivain, le nadsat, mélange de cockney et d'argot russe.
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