The Slang Dictionary
by John Camden Hotten
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873
- Title
- The slang dictionary : Etymological, historical and anecdotal
- Credits
- Produced by Henry Flower, Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- London (England) -- Languages -- Dictionaries
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42108
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42108
- Release Date
- February 16, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE SLANG DICTIONARY ETYMOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.THE HISTORY OF CANT, OR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS.
- 5.ACCOUNT OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS USED BY VAGABONDS.
- 6.A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE.
- 7.THE SLANG DICTIONARY.
- 8.SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BACK SLANG.
- 9.GLOSSARY OF THE BACK SLANG.
- 10.SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RHYMING SLANG. — NOTE.
- 11.GLOSSARY OF THE RHYMING SLANG.
- 12.CENTRE SLANG.
- 13.THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR LANGUAGE: A LIST OF THE BOOKS CONSULTED IN COMPILING THIS WORK.
- 14.DICTIONARIES
- 15.FOOTNOTES:
- 16.Transcriber’s Note
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