Slang and Cant in Jerome K. Jerome’s Works

About this eBook

Author

Bosson, Olof E., 1871-

Title

Slang and cant in Jerome K. Jerome's works : A study

Original Publication

United Kingdom: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1911.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71307

Release Date

July 30, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SLANG AND CANT IN JEROME K. JEROME’S WORKS
2. 2.Contents.
3. 3.Preface.
4. 4.Bibliography.
5. 5.Introduction.
6. 6.A GRAMMATICAL SURVEY — I. A Few Phonetic Notes. — II. Accidence. — Anomalisms in the Conjugation of the Verbs. — Past. — Perfect Participle. — Present Participle. — To Be. — To Have. — Pronouns. — Nouns. — III. Syntactical Remarks.
7. 7.SLANG — Avast! — Little-go — nurse — pater, mater — plough — ratty — shoot — slack, swot — spin — swag
8. 8.SLANG > COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH — baccy — bally — chip in — coach — crib — do — jaw — land — mash — slippy — spoon, spoony — stodgy — tuck — twig
9. 9.VULGARISM OR CANT — buck up — bunk — bloke — blooming — to blue — boss-eyed — bullyrag — clout — cockey — cop, copper — cove — curse — Some euphemisms for damn, damned — the dismals — doorstep — fair — fake — fizzing — fly — funk — Garn — governor — grub — to lam — let on — matey — mug — nab — nob — office — peg out — phiz — put away — to queer a pitch — rocky — rorty — savey — Sawny-headed — shove — shut up — sight — sit — skunk — slap-up — sort of — to do spoons — stow — toff, toffy — to be up a tree — a wet — swarry
10. 10.VULGARISM > COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH — blither — the blues — bob, tanner, quid — chap — chuck — cotton — dotty — gal, gell — gent, gents — gone on — Honest Injun — hump, humpy — look — The missis, the missus. — rantan — rocky — same as — stone-broke — Tommy rot — toss off — tumble to
11. 11.FOOTNOTES
12. 12.Index.
13. 13.SVEA ENGLISH TREATISES. — Svea English Treatises. — Recent Swedish Treatises on English Subjects. — Svea English Treatises.

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