The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and AnecdotalChatto and Windus, 1874 - 382 pàgines |
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... usually receives on arriving in a distant colony . They came here with all their old Eastern arts of palmistry and second - sight , with their factitious power of doubling money by incantation and burial , -shreds of pagan idolatry ...
... usually receives on arriving in a distant colony . They came here with all their old Eastern arts of palmistry and second - sight , with their factitious power of doubling money by incantation and burial , -shreds of pagan idolatry ...
Pàgina 83
... usually means the smallest silver coin in circulation ; also a piece of money of any kind . Charles Bannister , the witty singer and actor , one day meeting a Bow Street runner with a man in custody , asked what the prisoner had done ...
... usually means the smallest silver coin in circulation ; also a piece of money of any kind . Charles Bannister , the witty singer and actor , one day meeting a Bow Street runner with a man in custody , asked what the prisoner had done ...
Pàgina 104
... usually applied to any project that is quietly stopped or stifled - as the question has been BURKED . " A book suppressed before publication is said to be BURKED . 66 Burra , great ; as BURRA SAIB , a great man ; BURRA KHANAH , a great ...
... usually applied to any project that is quietly stopped or stifled - as the question has been BURKED . " A book suppressed before publication is said to be BURKED . 66 Burra , great ; as BURRA SAIB , a great man ; BURRA KHANAH , a great ...
Pàgina 111
... usually sold to feed cats . Cat's - paw , a dupe or tool . From the old story of the monkey who used the cat's - paw to remove his roast chestnuts from the fire . A sea term , meaning light and occasional breezes occurring in calm ...
... usually sold to feed cats . Cat's - paw , a dupe or tool . From the old story of the monkey who used the cat's - paw to remove his roast chestnuts from the fire . A sea term , meaning light and occasional breezes occurring in calm ...
Pàgina 112
... usually applied to a stiff glass of grog - preferably brandy - finishing the potations of the even- ing . See WHITEWASH . Caulker , a too marvellous story , a lie . CHOKER has the same sense . Caution , anything out of the common way ...
... usually applied to a stiff glass of grog - preferably brandy - finishing the potations of the even- ing . See WHITEWASH . Caulker , a too marvellous story , a lie . CHOKER has the same sense . Caution , anything out of the common way ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
abbreviation allusion American amongst Ancient Cant applied back slang beat beer beggars betting blow bookmakers boys Brummagem called Cant language cant term Cant words cards cheat chete Cockney coin colour common connexion cook his goose corruption costermongers cribbage denote derived Dictionary drink drunk English expression fashionable favourite fellow formerly French frequently Gipsy give Grose head horse Hudibras HUMBUG Irish Italian kind known ladies language latter Lingua Franca London means modern nose old cant old English one's originally Oxford PANTILE peculiar penny person phrase piece Pierce Egan play popular prison Probably public-house pugilistic race reference remark rhyming slang sailors SALTEE Scotch SCREEVE sense Seven Dials Shakspeare shillings signifies sixpence slang song slang term sometimes speech sporting steal STICK street supposed synonymous thief thieves tion tongue tramps vagabonds vulgar woman
Passatges populars
Pàgina 234 - Old Marlcy was as dead as a DOOR-NAIL. "Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a DOOR-NAIL. I might have been inclined myself to regard a COFFIN-NAIL as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade
Pàgina 294 - correspondent says that Tennyson is decidedly partial to slang, and instances amongst other proofs a passage from the laureate's famous Locksley Hall:— " Many a night, from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion
Pàgina 43 - their title, and were called the " mob" in the assemblies of this [Green Ribbon] club. It was their beasts of burden, and called first mobile vulgus, but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper English." In the same work, p. 231, the disgraceful origin of SHAM is given.
Pàgina 85 - &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.
Pàgina 263 - cross" or "crooked. At all events it is believed to have been first used in England as a cant word. Queer, " to QUEER a flat," to puzzle or confound a " gull," or silly fellow. ' Who in a row like Tom could lead the van, Booze in the ken, or at the spellken hustle? Who QUEER a flat,
Pàgina 226 - It is perhaps this humour of speaking no more words than we needs must which has so miserably curtailed some of our words, that in familiar writings and conversation they often lose all but their first syllables, as in
Pàgina 4 - list of Rogues' Words in the year 1566; and Harrison about the same time,* in speaking of beggars and Gipsies, says, " they have devised a language among themselves which they name Canting, but others Pedlars' Frenche.
Pàgina 80 - a BULL, perhaps only as a similar distinction. The contract was merely a wager, to be determined by the rise or fall of stock : if it rose, the seller paid the difference to the buyer, proportioned to the sum determined by the same computation to the seller.
Pàgina 373 - This work affords a greater insight into the fashionable follies and vulgar habits of Queen Elizabeth's day than perhaps any other extant." Decker's (Thomas) O per se O, or a new Cryer of Lanthorne and Candle-light, an Addition of the Bellman's Second Night's Walke,
Pàgina 338 - Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children, dear, let us away, This way, this