Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than Three Hundred Years. With Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc, Volumen6subscribers only, 1903 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid American Arry Ballads B. E. and GROSE BARHAM BARTLETT BROWN Burlesque Homer called Century colloquial colloquial).-To common common).-To copulate COTGRAVE DEKKER DICKENS Dict drink drunk EGAN fellow FLETCHER FLORIO Gil Blas ROUT GROSE and VAUX Guy Mannering HALLIWELL Hence horse Hudibras Ibid Ingoldsby Legends intj Jack JONSON KINGSLEY lady LEDGE Lond Love LYTTON MALKIN Martin Chuzzlewit MAYHEW NARES Old Cant OLIPHANT ONE'S Pall Mall Paul Clifford PHRASES Pomes pudendum quot Rabelais RHINO Robbery Under Arms ROGUE ROUND SALT Scots SCOTT SCREEVE SCREW SHAKE SHAKSPEARE SHAVE SHEBEEN SHOE SHOOT SHOT SKIN SLANG SMART SMOLLETT SNOB Song spec SPORT SQUAILING SQUARE STICK Stock subs Telegraph THACKERAY There's thieves thing thou venery verb Vulg WARD Whence wife woman York Tribune young
Pasajes populares
Página 350 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Página 304 - they said what a wery gen'rous thing it was o' them to have taken up the case on spec, and to charge nothing at all for costs, unless they got 'em out of Mr. Pickwick.
Página 343 - ... or no. If he say he was, he will know of whom, and his name yt stalled him. And if he be not learnedly able to shew him the whole circumstance thereof, he will spoyle him of his money, either of his best garment, if it be worth any money, and haue him to the bowsing ken : which is, to some...
Página 207 - ... who ramble twice or thrice a week from shop to shop, to turn over all the goods in town without buying any thing.
Página 79 - ... since it is a rule among these gentlemen to fall upon a play, not because it is ill written, but because it takes. Several of them lay it down as a maxim, that whatever dramatic performance has a long run, must of necessity be good for nothing ; as though the first precept in poetry were not to please.
Página 184 - This Shoemaker's holiday was a day of great festivity to poor Goldsmith, and was spent in the following innocent manner: — " Three or four of his intimate friends rendezvoused at his chambers, to breakfast, about ten o'clock in the morning; at eleven they proceeded by the...
Página 153 - Free. Shamming is telling you an insipid dull lie with a dull face, which the sly wag the author only laughs at himself; and making himself believe 'tis a good jest, puts the sham only upon himself.
Página 338 - Dice lying upon one another ; so that, turning up the Box, the Dice never tumble ; if a smooth Box, if true, but little ; by which means you have bottoms according to the tops you put in ; for example — if you put in your Dice so that two fives or two fours lie a top, you have, in the bottom, turned up two twos, or two treys ; so, if Six and Ace a top, a Six and an Ace at bottom.
Página 239 - I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
Página 50 - Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and