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. patter" (don't talk much) here. COOPER'D, (spoilt,) by too many tramps calling there. "Cheese your GAMMY, (unfavourable,) likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog. RELIGIOUS, but tidy on the whole. See page 30. 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. -SOUTH. "Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up in them." REGLA Copies of this work, interleaved with finely-ruled paper, for the use of those who desire to collect such Slang and colloquial words as may start into existence from time to time, can be obtained from the publisher, price 9s. 6d. NINTH THOUSAND. PRINTED BY JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY, LONDON. BAYERISCHE STAATS BIBLIOTHEK MUENCHEN PREFACE. 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. by the critical press with an small works of the kind. elapsed, the compiler has nised English once more. surveyed, 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. Both editions were reviewed approval seldom accorded to During the four years that have gone over the field of unrecogThe entire subject has been re Any apology for an inquiry like the present is believed to be unnecessary. The philologist and the historian usually find in such material the best evidences of a people's progress or decline. It may not be out of place to say here-and I am sure he would not have objected— |