Nadsat

Meaning

Proper Noun

• The Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).

Origin

• Borrowed from Russian -надцать ("-teen, suffix forming cardinal numbers from thirteen to nineteen"). The word was coined by English author Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) in his 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange.