Tionary of modem Slang, - a list of colloquial words and The reader will please bear in mind that this is a Dic. Terms he found this impossible, as he never heard them Give the singular number but in the case of some of the The compiler endeavoured, as far as possible, to Their thoughts and actions, is unrelieved by any feeUngĪpproaching to the poetic or the refined.Ī few Slang and Cant words wUl be observed in the
Pithy and amusing, whereas Cant, like our lower orders in Reformation of criminal offenders, he found the matter a The punishment, and at the same time provide for the Our own Legislature, when trying successfully to regulate Is an awkward thing to deal with, and, as in the case of Tentions and actions is miserable in the extreme. Their very existence is a lamentableįact and the dry, unpoetic way they explain criminal in. Tory of thieving, &c., and which continually occur in the Some of the more repulsive of these words - those explana. The compiler scarcely knew what to do with The London thieves are given in the Dictionary at the foot The more vulgar and less known Cant or secret terms of The compiler feels it necessary to offer some apology. The general style and aim of this preliminary performance,
Tains many more illustrations of the different classes ofĬolloquial speech than are given in the introduction. Has been more than trebled in size, and consequently con. The short history of Cant and Slang, which precedes theĭictionary, was first published in 1859, and has not sinceīeen re-written, although the Dictionary, which follows, I as they are termed, for the introduction of this Italian That we have to thank the less dignified organ-grinders, James I., as the source from whence we derive this curiousĮlement in our vulgar speech. The Professor looks to the Lombard mer-Ĭhants, who flocked to London in the days of Elizabeth and In German magazines numerous articles haveĪppeared upon my former book and, at Turin, ProfessorĪscoli has published a lengthy work upon the Linguaįranca words in the speech of our lower orders, which theĭictionary of Modern Slang was the first to detect and India, China, the Cape, Australia, and North and SouthĪmerica I have received letters of advice or inquiry upon Guage have become mixed with our street-talk and from
From almost everyĬapital in Europe I have received communications askingįurther particulars, or informing me that scraps of their lan. The widespread interest taken in the subject of Eng. "Many of these wordsĪnd phrases," he used to say, "are but serving theirĪpprenticeship, and wUl eventually become the active Gentleman for the probable etymologies of some of the Subject, and that in a few instances I am indebted to that That the late Mr Buckle took the greatest interest in the To say here - and I am sure he would not have objected. People's progress or decline It may not be out of place Usually find in such material the best evidences of a Monly deemed " vulgar," but which are used by the highestĪnd lowest, the best, the wisest, as well as the worst andĪny apology for an inquiry like the present is believed Ment or instruction, nearly 10,000 words and phrases com. The volume before the reader, which offers, for his amuse. Tions of old colloquial expressions given. In, new street-words have been added, and better illustra. Surveyed, out-lying terms and phrases have been brought During the four years that haveĮlapsed, the compiler has gone over the field of unrecog. Both editions were reviewedīy the critical press with an approval seldom accorded to Tained about 3000 words the second, issued twelve months Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, issued by "a LondonĪntiquary" in 1859. With this work is incorporated The Dictionary of Modem Who desire to collect such Slang and colloquial words as may start into exist. Oopia of this vxrrh, interleaved with finely-ruled paper, for the UH of Oum *Babblti charminc words* which catry M much wUd-fln wrapt up In them."
Hind the dog.įLUMMUXSD^ (dangeroua,) sure of a month in "d^iod," (prison.) QAMMT, (unfavourable,) likely to have you taken up. **C7uae jfourĬOOPER'Dt (spoilt,) by too many tramps calling there. SONS, (good.) Safe for a "cold tatur/' if for nothing else. GO IN THIS DIKECTION, it is better than the other road.
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