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  1. THE SLANG DICTIONARY ETYMOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. THE HISTORY OF CANT, OR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS.
  5. ACCOUNT OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS USED BY VAGABONDS.
  6. A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE.
  7. THE SLANG DICTIONARY.
  8. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BACK SLANG.
  9. GLOSSARY OF THE BACK SLANG.
  10. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RHYMING SLANG.
    1. NOTE.
  11. GLOSSARY OF THE RHYMING SLANG.
  12. CENTRE SLANG.
  13. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR LANGUAGE: A LIST OF THE BOOKS CONSULTED IN COMPILING THIS WORK.
  14. DICTIONARIES
  15. FOOTNOTES:
  16. Transcriber’s Note


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Title: The Slang Dictionary
       Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal

Author: John Camden Hotten

Release Date: February 16, 2013 [EBook #42108]

Language: English


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A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.

EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.
crossNo good; too poor, and know too much.
semicircle plus crossStop,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing).
forked branchGo in this direction, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way.
diamondBone (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here.
triangle pointing downCooper’d (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there.
squareGammy (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog.
circle with dotFlummuxed (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod,” prison.
circle with crossReligious, but tidy on the whole.

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