The 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 TracedJ. Camden Hotten, 1865 - 305 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... mean or dishonest man . Gipsy and Hindoo . LAB , a word . Gipsy . LOBS , words . LOWE , or LOWR , money . Gipsy LOWRE , money . Ancient Cant . and Wallachian . MAMI , a grandmother . Gipsy . MAMMY , or MAMMA , a mother , formerly ...
... mean or dishonest man . Gipsy and Hindoo . LAB , a word . Gipsy . LOBS , words . LOWE , or LOWR , money . Gipsy LOWRE , money . Ancient Cant . and Wallachian . MAMI , a grandmother . Gipsy . MAMMY , or MAMMA , a mother , formerly ...
Pàgina 9
... means in that language a whip . Our standard dictionaries give , of course , none but conjectural etymologies . Another word , BAMBOOZLE , has been a sore difficulty with lexicographers . It is not in the old dictionaries , although ...
... means in that language a whip . Our standard dictionaries give , of course , none but conjectural etymologies . Another word , BAMBOOZLE , has been a sore difficulty with lexicographers . It is not in the old dictionaries , although ...
Pàgina 12
... means to rob . is a house , and LICK means to thrash ; PRANCER is yet known amongst rogues as a horse ; and " to PRIG , " amongst high and low , is to steal . Three centuries ago , if one beggar said anything disagreeable to another ...
... means to rob . is a house , and LICK means to thrash ; PRANCER is yet known amongst rogues as a horse ; and " to PRIG , " amongst high and low , is to steal . Three centuries ago , if one beggar said anything disagreeable to another ...
Pàgina 13
... means to defraud or swindle , and lexicographers have tortured etymology for an original - but without success . Escheats and escheatours have been named , but with great doubts ; indeed , Stevens , the learned commentator on Shakspeare ...
... means to defraud or swindle , and lexicographers have tortured etymology for an original - but without success . Escheats and escheatours have been named , but with great doubts ; indeed , Stevens , the learned commentator on Shakspeare ...
Pàgina 14
... means curious , and is synonymous with 66 " RUMMY old fellow , " or a QUEER old man . " queer ; thus , -a Here again we see the origin of an every - day word , scouted by lexicographers and snubbed by respectable persons , but still a ...
... means curious , and is synonymous with 66 " RUMMY old fellow , " or a QUEER old man . " queer ; thus , -a Here again we see the origin of an every - day word , scouted by lexicographers and snubbed by respectable persons , but still a ...
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The Slang Dictionary, Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast ... John Camden Hotten Visualització completa - 1864 |
The Slang Dictionary, Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast ... John Camden Hotten Visualització completa - 1865 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
abbreviation allusion amongst Ancient Cant Anglo-Indian Anglo-Saxon applied BACK SLANG beat beer beggars blow boys Brummagem called Cambridge Cant language Cant term Cant word cards cheat clothes coin common cook his GOOSE corruption coster costermongers curious derived Dictionary drink drunk English expression fashionable favourite FAWNEY fellow formerly freemasonry French frequently German Gipsy give Greek Grose Hindoo horse HUMBUG Irish Italian John Camden Hotten Lingua Franca London Lord means modern nickname Old Cant Old English one's origin PANTILE patterers Paul Clifford peculiar penny person phrase Piccadilly pickpocket piece play pocket popular prison probably pronunciation public-house pugilistic remark Rotwelsche sailors SALTEE says Scotch SCREEVE sell sense Seven Dials Shakspeare shillings showy signifies sixpence Slang term sometimes speech steal STICK street synonymous thief thieves thrash tongue tramps trick vagabonds whilst Winchester College woman YENEPS
Passatges populars
Pàgina xv - Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
Pàgina 2 - Cant' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in. some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own 'congregation, and not by all of them.
Pàgina 74 - ... halls, &c. To this smutty regiment, who attended the progresses, and rode in the carts with the pots and kettles, which, with every other article of furniture, were then moved from palace to palace, the people, in derision, gave the name of black guards, a term since become sufficiently familiar, and never properly explained/' Gifford's notes on Jonsoris Works, vol.
Pàgina 70 - It was the practice of stock-jobbers, in the year 1720, to enter into a contract for transferring South Sea stock at a future time for a certain price ; but he who contracted to sell, had frequently no stock to transfer, nor did he who bought intend to receive any in consequence of his bargain ; the seller was therefore called a bear, in allusion to the proverb, and the buyer a bull, perhaps only as a similar distinction.
Pàgina xxv - Mayhew very pertinently remarks, " it would appear, that not only are all races divisible into wanderers and settlers, but that each civilized or settled tribe has generally some wandering horde intermingled with, and in a measure preying upon it.
Pàgina 307 - Book of Dogs ; the Varieties of Dogs as they are found in OLD SCULPTURES, PICTURES, ENGRAVINGS, and BOOKS.
Pàgina 292 - Bacchus and Venus ; or, a Select Collection of near Two Hundred of the most Witty and Diverting Songs and Catches in Love and Gallantry, with Songs in the Canting Dialect