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This day, pp. 328, in 8vo, price 6s. 6d., by post 78., NEW DICTIONARY OF COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH.

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. WITH CURIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS

Wedge and Wooden Spoon.
See p. 272.

ABX 781

Egyptian Hieroglyphic verb, to be drunk, showing the ampu tation of a man's leg. See under BREAKY LEG (viz. Strong Drink) in the Dictionary, p. 81.

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See Two UPON TEN, in
the Dictionary, p. 264.

With this work is incorporated The Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, issued by "a London Antiquary" in 1859. The first edition of that work contained about 3000 words; the second, issued twelve months later, gave upwards of 5000. Both editions were reviewed by the critical press with an approval seldom accorded to small works of the kind. During the four years that have elapsed, the compiler has gone over the field of unrecognised English once The entire subject has been resurveyed, out-lying terms and phrases have been brought in, new street-words have been added, and better illustrations of old colloquial expressions given. The result is the volume before the reader, which offers, for his amusement or instruction, nearly 10,000 words and phrases commonly deemed "vulgar," but which are used by the highest and lowest, the best, the wisest, as well as the worst and most ignorant of society.

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The Blue Fish.

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The Great Forest.

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"Patch;" or, The Smile Fairy.
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