EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS. 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. Notlúng that way. Bone (good). Safe for a "cold tatur," if for nothing else. Cooper'd (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there.. "Cheese Jour Gammy (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog. Religious, but tidy on the whole. See p. 31. PREFACE. A Stacks LANG, like everything else, changes much in the SLA course of time; and though but fifteen years have elapsed since this Dictionary was first introduced to the public, alterations have since then been many and frequent in the subject of which it treats. The first issue of a work of this kind is, too, ever beset with difficulties, and the compiler was always aware that, though under the circumstances of its production the book was an undoubted success, it necessarily lacked many of the elements which would make that success lasting, and cause the "Slang Dictionary" to be regarded as an authority and a work of reference not merely among the uneducated, but among people of cultivated tastes and inquiring minds. For though the vulgar use of the word Slang applies to those words only which are used by the dangerous classes and the lowest grades of society, the term has in reality, (and 'should have-—as every one who has ever studied the subject knows a much wider significance. Bearing this in mind, the original publisher of this Dictionary lost no opportunity |