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THE SLANG DICTIONARY.

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X 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. Nothing that
way.

BONE, (good.) Safe for a "cold tatur," if for nothing else.
patter" (don't talk much) here.

COOPER'D, (spoilt,) by too many tramps calling there.

"Cheese your

GAMMY, (unfavourable,) likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog.
FLUMMUXED, (dangerous,) sure of a month in "quod," (prison.)
RELIGIOUS, but tidy on the whole.

See page 30.

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 TRACED.

-SOUTEL

**Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up in them."

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