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 traced.
by John Camden Hotten
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Within this work, one will find the Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words issued in London in 1859. This 1869 edition now contains "nearly 100,000 words and phrases commonly deemed 'vulgar' but which are used by the highest and the lowest, the best, the wisest, as well as the worst and most ignorant of society." Included is a glossary of "back slang" words used by the costermongers of London and rhyming slang – a secret language of chaunters and patterers!
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First issued 1859 under title: Adictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words.
Prefaced signed: J. C. H.
A later edition of: Hotten (J.C.) A dictionary of modern slang ... 1859. (q.v.).
"The bibliography of slang, cant, and vulgar language": p.(293)-305.
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