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Classical Dictionary

OF THE

VULGAR TONGUE,

REVISED AND CORRECTED,

With the Addition of numerous

SLANG PHRASES,

COLLECTED FROM TRIED AUTHORITIES.

BY PIERCE EGAN,

Author of "Boxiana," « Picture of the Fancy," "Sporting Anecdotes," &c.

"A kind of cant phraseology is current from one end of the Metropolis to the
other, and you will scarcely be able to move a single step, my dear JERRY, without
consulting a Slang Dictionary, or having some friend at your elbow to explain the
strange expressions which, at every turn, will assail your ear."

Corinthian Tom-LIFE IN LONDON.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1823.

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PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST EDITION.

THE great approbation with which so polite a nation as France has received the Satirical and Burlesque Dictionary of Monsieur Le Roux, testified by the several editions it has gone through, will, it is hoped, apologize for an attempt to compile an English Dictionary on a similar plan; our language being at least as copious as the French, and as capable of the witty equivoque; besides which, the freedom of thought and speech arising from, and privileged by, our constitution, gives a force and poignancy to the expressions of our common people, not to be

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