PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF CANT AND VULGAR LANGUAGE;

WITH GLOSSARIES OF TWO SECRET LANGUAGES, SPOKEN BY THE WANDERING

TRIBES OF LONDON, THE COSTERMONGERS, AND THE PATTERERS.

By A LONDON ANTIQUARY.

“Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up in

them.”—SOUTH.

SECOND EDITION,

REVISED, WITH TWO THOUSAND ADDITIONAL WORDS.

LONDON:

JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY.

1860.

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