The Slang Dictionary: Or, the Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society : Many with Their Etymology and a Few with Their History TracedJ.C. Hotten, 1869 - 305 páginas |
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The Slang Dictionary; Or, the Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and 'Fast ... John Camden Hotten Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
Términos y frases comunes
abbreviation allusion amongst Ancient Cant Anglo-Indian Anglo-Saxon applied BACK SLANG beat beer beggars blow boys Brummagem called Cambridge Cant language Cant term Cant word cards cheat clothes common cook his GOOSE corruption coster costermongers curious custom derived Dictionary drink drunk Dutch English expression fashionable favourite FAWNEY fellow formerly French frequently German Gipsy give Greek Grose HIVITE HOBSON'S CHOICE HOCUS HOCUS POCUS horse Hudibras HUMBUG Irish Italian language Lingua Franca London means Old Cant Old English one's origin PANTILE PATTER Paul Clifford penny person phrase pickpocket piece play pocket prison probably public-house Pugilistic race remark sailors SALTEE says Scotch SCREEVE sell sense Seven Dials Shakspeare shillings showy signifies sixpence Slang Slang term sometimes speech sporting steal STICK street swell synonymous thief thieves thrash tongue tramps trick vagabonds vulgar woman
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Página 25 - Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
Página 290 - POVERTY, MENDICITY, and CRIME, or the Facts, Examinations, &c. upon which the Report, presented to the House of Lords, by WA Miles, Esq. was founded. To which is added a Dictionary of the Flash or Cant Language, known to every Thief and Beggar. Edited by H. BRANDON, Esq. 5s. GRAND JURIES; REASONS FOR THEIR ABOLITION. By WILLIAM FOOTE, Author of " Suggestions for the Improvement of Portions of the Criminal Law...
Página 31 - Cant' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them.
Página 264 - Puniana." Why is a wide-awake hat so called ? Because it never had a nap, and never wants one. The Saturday Review says of this most amusing work — " Enormous burlesque — unapproachable and pre-eminent.
Página 32 - CANT, apart from religions hypocrisy, refers to the old secret language, by allegory or distinct terms, of Gipsies, thieves, tramps, and beggars. SLANG represents that evanescent, vulgar language, ever changing with fashion and taste, which has principally come into vogue during the last seventy or eighty years, spoken by persons in every grade of life, rich and poor, 'honest and dishonest.
Página 74 - ... halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained/' Gifford's notes on Jonsoris Works, vol.
Página 289 - DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS. A Glossary of Words and Phrases colloquially used in the United States. By John Russell Bartlett.
Página 52 - Hood. He might just understand what was meant by vis-a-vis, entremets, and some others of the flying horde of frivolous little foreign slangisms hovering about fashionable cookery and fashionable furniture ; but three-fourths of them would seem to him as barbarous French provincialisms, or, at best, but as antiquated and obsolete expressions, picked out of the letters of Mademoiselle Scuderi, or the tales of Crebillon the "younger.
Página 49 - Dictionary, 1825. derived from " the slangs or fetters worn by prisoners, having acquired that name from the manner in which they were worn, as they required a sling of string to keep them off the ground.
Página 288 - Bacchus and Venus ; or, a Select Collection of near Two Hundred of the most Witty and Diverting Songs and Catches in Love and Gallantry, with Songs in the Canting Dialect