During the twenties he wrote fiction under the pseudonym 'Corrie Denison'; "Glimpses", a book of stories and sketches, was published by the Scholartis Press in 1928. The Scholartis Press published over 60 books in these four years, including "Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914-1918", which Partridge co-authored with John Brophy. From 1932 he commenced writing in earnest. His next major work on slang, "Slang Today and Yesterday", appeared in 1933, and his well-known "Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" followed in 1937.