A DICTIONARY

OF MODERN

SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR LANGUAGE.

EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.

X NO GOOD; too poor, and know too much.

STOP,-if you have what they want, they will buy. They are
pretty "fly" (knowing).

GO IN THIS DIRECTION, it is better than the other road.
Nothing that way.

BONE (good). Safe for a "cold tatur," if for nothing else.
"Cheese your patter " (don't talk much) here.

COOPER'D (spoilt), by too many tramps calling there.

GAMMY (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up.
Mind the dog.

OFLUMMUXED (dangerous), sure of a month in quod (prison).

RELIGIOUS, but tidy on the whole.

See page xl.

OF

MODERN SLANG, CANT,

AND

VULGAR WORDS,....

USED AT THE PRESENT DAY IN THE STREETS OF LONDON; THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD
AND CAMBRIDGE; THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT; THE DENS OF ST. GILES;
AND THE PALACES OF ST. JAMES.

PRECEDED BY A

HISTORY OF CANT AND VULGAR LANGUAGE
FROM THE TIME OF HENRY VIII.; SHEWING ITS
CONNECTION WITH THE

GIPSEY TONGUE;

WITH

GLOSSARIES OF TWO SECRET LANGUAGES,

SPOKEN BY THE WANDERING TRIBES OF LONDON, THE COSTERMONGERS,
AND THE PATTERERS.

BY A LONDON ANTIQUARY.

"Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up in them."-SOUTH.

C. LONDON:

JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN,

Antiquarian Bookseller,

PICCADILLY.