Word.ws English Dictionary

Nadsats

Nadsats is the plural of Nadsat.

Meaning of Nadsat

Proper noun

Nadsat (plural Nadsats)

  1. The Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962).
    • […] 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...1974, Style, volume 8, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 475

Questions about Nadsats

What is Nadsats the plural of?
Nadsats is the plural of Nadsat.

Words near Nadsats in the dictionary

  1. nadroparin
  2. Nadruvian
  3. Nadruvians
  4. nads
  5. nadsat
  6. Nadsats
  7. Nadvirna
  8. NAE
  9. nae nae
  10. Naeem
  11. Naeems

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Nadsats (page history and authors); Nadsat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Nadsats.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nadsats. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.