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 GO IN THIS DIRECTION, it is better than the other road. BONE (good). Safe for a "cold tatur," if for nothing else. COOPER'D (spoilt), by too many tramps calling there. GAMMY (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. 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 PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF CANT AND VULGAR LANGUAGE GIPSEY TONGUE; WITH GLOSSARIES OF TWO SECRET LANGUAGES, SPOKEN BY THE WANDERING TRIBES OF LONDON, THE COSTERMONGERS, 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. |