The 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 TracedJ.C. Hotten, 1872 - 305 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviation allusion amongst amusing Ancient Cant Anglo-Indian applied ARTEMUS WARD BACK SLANG beat beer beggars blow boys BRET HARTE called Cambridge Cant language Cant term Cant words cards cheat cloth coloured common corruption coster costermongers curious derived Dictionary drink drunk edition English ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN expression fashionable favourite FAWNEY fellow formerly French frequently German gilt Gipsy give Greek Grose horse humour Illustrations Irish Italian JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN ladies Lingua Franca London MARK TWAIN means modern Old Cant Old English one's origin paper patterers Paul Clifford penny person phrase PICCADILLY piece Pierce Egan popular prison probably public-house pugilistic remark sailors SALTEE says Scotch SCREEVE sense Seven Dials Shakspeare shillings signifies sixpence Slang term Slang words sometimes song speech steal STICK story street synonymous thieves tion tongue tramps trick vagabonds whilst Winchester College woman YENEPS
Passagens conhecidas
Página xv - Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
Página 17 - The Art of Amusing : A Collection of Graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades. By FRANK BELLEW.
Página 6 - Emanuel On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js.
Página 11 - Emphatically one of the liveliest of books, as also one of the most interesting. Has the twofold merit of being at once amusing and edifying.
Página 5 - Broad Grins,'' " My Nightgown and Slippers," and other Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, of GEORGE COLMAN. With Life by GB BUCKSTONE, and Frontispiece by HOGARTH. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s.
Página 4 - Massinger's Plays. From the Text of WILLIAM GIFFORD. With the addition of the Tragedy of '
Página 3 - Cant' is, by some people, derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who by exercise and use had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect, that it is said he was understood by none but his own congregation, and not by all of them.
Página 17 - Many Illustrations. The Secret Out : One Thousand Tricks with Cards, and other Recreations ; with Entertaining Experiments in Drawing-room or
Página 7 - Bubble's New Story Book. THE DRAGON ALL COVERED WITH SPIKES. THE LONG-TAILED NAG. THE THREE ONE-LEGGED MEN. THE OLD FLY AND THE YOUNG FLY TOM AND THE OGRE. And many other tales. By J. TEMPLETON LUCAS With numerous Illustrations by Matt Morgan, Barnes, Gordon Thompson, Brunton, and other artists. In small 4to, green and gold, 4s. 6d. Gilt leaves, 5s.
Página 76 - ... halls, &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/' Gifford's notes on Jonsoris Works, vol.