The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal |
PREFACE. CONTENTS. THE HISTORY OF CANT, OR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS. ACCOUNT OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS USED BY VAGABONDS. A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE. THE SLANG DICTIONARY. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BACK SLANG. GLOSSARY OF THE BACK SLANG. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RHYMING SLANG. GLOSSARY OF THE RHYMING SLANG. CENTRE SLANG. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR LANGUAGE: A LIST OF DICTIONARIES FOOTNOTES: Transcriber's Note
A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT. | EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS. | | cross | No good; too poor, and know too much. | | semicircle plus cross | Stop,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing). | | forked branch | Go in this direction, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way. | | diamond | Bone (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here. | | triangle pointing down | Cooper’d (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there. | | square | Gammy (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog. | | circle with dot | Flummuxed (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod,” prison. | | circle with cross | Religious, but tidy on the whole. |
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