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共 332 题- A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.
- EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.
- A DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR WORDS,
- PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF CANT AND VULGAR LANGUAGE;
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- THE HISTORY OF CANT, OR THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS.
- PAGE
- THE OLDEST “ROGUE’S DICTIONARY” 20–26
- ACCOUNT OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS USED BY VAGABONDS.
- THE HISTORY OF SLANG, OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE.
- FASHIONABLE SLANG 58
- PARLIAMENTARY SLANG 60
- MILITARY AND DANDY SLANG 62
- UNIVERSITY SLANG 64
- RELIGIOUS SLANG 66
- LEGAL SLANG, or Slang amongst the Lawyers 70
- LITERARY SLANG, _Punch_ on “Slang and Sanscrit” 71
- THEATRICAL SLANG, or Slang both before and behind the curtain 75
- CIVIC SLANG 77
- SHOPKEEPERS’ SLANG 82
- GLOSSARY OF BACK SLANG 257–262
- GLOSSARY OF THE RHYMING SLANG 269–273
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 291
- THE HISTORY OF CANT,
- OR, THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF VAGABONDS.
- ACCOUNT OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS USED BY VAGABONDS.
- THE HISTORY OF SLANG,
- OR THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST LIFE.
- A DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG, CANT, & VULGAR WORDS;
- MANY WITH THEIR ETYMOLOGIES TRACED.
- APPLE CART, “down with his APPLE CART,” _i.e._, upset him.—_North._
- ATTIC, the head; “queer in the ATTIC,” intoxicated.—_Pugilistic._
- BEN, a benefit.—_Theatrical._
- BETTY, a skeleton key, or picklock.—_Old cant._
- BITCH, tea; “a BITCH party,” a tea-drinking.—_University._
- BLARNEY, flattery, exaggeration.—_Hibernicism._
- BLINKER, a blackened eye.—_Norwich slang._
- BLUBBER, to cry in a childish manner.—_Ancient._
- BLUE, a policeman; “disguised in BLUE and liquor.”—_Boots at the Swan._
- BLURT OUT, to speak from impulse, and without reflection.—_Shakespere._
- BODMINTON, blood.—_Pugilistic._
- BONE, to steal or pilfer. BONED, seized, apprehended.—_Old._
- BOOZING-KEN, a beer-shop, a low public house.—_Ancient._
- BOUNCE, to boast, cheat, or bully.—_Old cant._
- BOUNDER, a four-wheel cab. _Lucus a non lucendo?_
- BOUNETTER, a fortune-telling cheat.—_Gipsey._
- BROWN-TO, to understand, to comprehend.—_American._
- BRUSH, or BRUSH-OFF, to run away, or move on.—_Old cant._
- BUSKER, a man who sings or performs in a public house.—_Scotch._
- CAB, to stick together, to muck, or tumble up.—_Devonshire._
- CADGE, to beg in an artful or wheedling manner.—_North._
- CANISTER, the head.—_Pugilistic._
- CANISTER-CAP, a hat.—_Pugilistic._
- CANNIKEN, a small can, similar to PANNIKIN.—_Shakespere._
- CARNEY, soft talk, nonsense, gammon.—_Hibernicism._
- CASTING UP ONE’S ACCOUNTS, vomiting.—_Old._
- CHOP, to change.—_Old._
- CHUCKLE-HEAD, a fool.—_Devonshire._
- CHUNK, a thick or dumpy piece of any substance.—_Kentish._
- CLARET, blood.—_Pugilistic._
- CLICK, knock, or blow. CLICK-HANDED, left-handed.—_Cornish._
- CLOUT, or RAG, a cotton pocket handkerchief.—_Old cant._
- CLOUT, a blow, or intentional strike.—_Ancient._
- COOK ONE’S GOOSE, to kill or ruin any person.—_North._
- CORK, “to draw a CORK,” to give a bloody nose.—_Pugilistic._
- COXY-LOXY, good-tempered, drunk.—_Norfolk._
- CRACK, dry firewood.—_Modern Gipsey._
- CRACK-UP, to boast or praise.—_Ancient English._
- CRIB, a literal translation of a classic author.—_University._
- CRUMMY, fat, plump.—_North._
- CRUSTY, ill tempered, petulant, morose.—_Old._
- CULL, a man or boy.—_Old cant._
- CUTTER, a ruffian, a cut purse. Of _Robin Hood_ it was said—
- DAB, street term for a flat fish of any kind.—_Old._
- DANCERS, stairs.—_Old cant._
- DARBIES, handcuffs.—_Old cant._
- DARN, vulgar corruption of d——n.—_American._
- DEE, a pocket book, term used by tramps.—_Gipsey._
- DEMIREP (or RIP), a courtesan. Contraction of DEMI-REPUTATION—_Grose._
- DIDDLE, to cheat, or defraud.—_Old._
- DIDDLER, or JEREMY DIDDLER, an artful swindler
- DOLDRUMS, difficulties, low spirits, dumps.—_Sea._
- DOLLOP, _to dole up_, give up a share.—_Ib._
- DOUSE, to put out; “DOUSE that glim,” put out that candle.—_Sea._
- DRAB, a vulgar or low woman.—_Shakespere._
- DUBS, a bunch of keys.—_Nearly obsolete._
- DUFF, pudding; vulgar pronunciation of DOUGH.—_Sea._
- DUNAKER, a stealer of cows or calves. _Nearly obsolete._
- EARL OF CORK, the ace of diamonds.—_Hibernicism._
- FAST, embarrassed, wanting money. Synonymous with HARD UP.—_Yorkshire._
- FEEDER, a spoon.—_Old cant._
- FEELE, a daughter, or child.—_Corrupted French._
- FELT, a hat.—_Old term, in use in the sixteenth century._
- FIB, to beat, or strike.—_Old cant._
- FIDDLE FADDLE, twaddle, or trifling discourse.—_Old cant._
- FIMBLE-FAMBLE, a lame prevaricating excuse.—_Scand._
- FIN, a hand; “come, tip us your FIN,” viz., let us shake hands.—_Sea._
- FLABERGAST, or FLABBERGHAST, to astonish, or strike with wonder.—_Old._
- FLAG, a groat, or 4d.—_Ancient cant._
- FLIM FLAMS, idle stories.—_Beaumont and Fletcher._
- FLOGGER, a whip.—_Obsolete._
- FLOOR, to knock down.—_Pugilistic._
- FLUNKEY, a footman, servant.—_Scotch._
- FOU, slightly intoxicated.—_Scotch._
- FOX, to cheat or rob.—_Eton College._
- FOXY, rank, tainted.—_Lincolnshire._
- FRUMMAGEMMED, annihilated, strangled, garotted, or spoilt.—_Old cant._
- FRUMP, a slatternly woman, a gossip.—_Ancient._
- FRUMP, to mock, or insult.—_Beaumont and Fletcher._
- FULLAMS, false dice, which always turn up high.—_Shakes._
- FUNK, to smoke out.—_North._
- FYE-BUCK, a sixpence. _Nearly obsolete._
- GALLAVANT, to wait upon the ladies.—_Old._
- GILL, a homely woman; “Jack and GILL,” &c.—_Ben Jonson._
- GINGERLY, to do anything with great care.—_Cotgrave._
- GLASGOW MAGISTRATES, salt herrings.—_Scotch._
- GLOAK, a man.—_Scotch._
- GOB, the mouth; mucus, or saliva.—_North._ Sometimes used for GAB, talk—
- ZACH. BOYD.
- GOLOPSHUS, splendid, delicious, luscious.—_Norwich._
- GOOSE, to ruin, or spoil. Also, to hiss a play.—_Theatrical._
- GOOSECAP, a booby, or noodle.—_Devonshire._
- GRAPPLING IRONS, fingers.—_Sea._
- GRAYS, or SCOTCH GRAYS, lice.—_Scotch._
- GRUBBY, musty, or old-fashioned.—_Devonshire._
- GUTTER BLOOD, a low or vulgar man—_Scotch._
- HARD UP, in distress, poverty stricken.—_Sea._
- HEDGE, to secure a doubtful bet by making others.—_Turf._
- HOG, a shilling.—_Old cant._
- HOOK, to steal or rob.—_See the following._
- HOP, a dance.—_Fashionable slang._
- HOP THE TWIG, to run away, or BOLT, which see.—_Old._
- HULKY, extra sized.—_Shropshire._
- HUM AND HAW, to hesitate, raise objections.—_Old English._
- JACOB, a ladder. _Grose_ says from Jacob’s dream.—_Old cant._
- JANNOCK, sociable, fair dealing.—_Norfolk._
- JAPAN, to ordain.—_University._
- JARK, a seal, or watch ornament.—_Ancient cant._
- JIBB, the tongue.—_Gipsey and Hindoo._
- JIGGER, a secret still, illicit spirits.—_Scotch._
- JORDAN, a chamber utensil.—_Saxon._
- KINCHIN COVE, a man who robs children; a little man.—_Ancient cant._
- KNACKER, an old horse; a horse slaughterer.—_Gloucestershire._
- KNOWLEDGE-BOX, the head.—_Pugilistic._
- LAG, to void urine.—_Ancient cant._
- LARRUPING, a good beating or “hiding.”—_Irish._
- LAY, to watch; “on the LAY,” on the look out—_Shakespere._
- LEARY, to look, or be watchful; shy.—_Old cant._
- LENGTH, forty-two lines of a dramatic composition.—_Theat._
- LOBB, the head.—_Pugilistic._
- LOBS, words.—_Gipsey._
- LOLLY, the head.—_See_ LOBB.—_Pugilistic._
- LOOT, swag, or plunder.—_Hindoo._
- LOP-SIDED, uneven, one side larger than the other.—_Old._
- LUG, the ear.—_Scotch._
- LUG, to pull, or slake thirst.—_Old._
- LUNAN, a girl.—_Gipsey._
- MAKE UP, personal appearance.—_Theatrical._
- MANG, to talk.—_Scotch._
- MARRIAGE LINES, a marriage certificate.—_Provincial._
- MENAGERY, the orchestra of a theatre.—_Theatrical._
- MIDDY, abbreviation of MIDSHIPMAN.—_Naval._
- MITTENS, fists.—_Pugilistic._
- MOKE, a donkey.—_Gipsey._
- MOLL, a girl; nickname for Mary.—_Old cant._
- MONKEY, the instrument which drives a rocket.—_Army._
- MONKEY, £500.
- MONKEY WITH A LONG TAIL, a mortgage.—_Legal._
- MOP UP, to drink, or empty a glass.—_Old._
- MUCKENDER, or MUCKENGER, a pocket handkerchief.—_Old._
- MUG, the mouth, or face.—_Old._
- MUNGING, or “MOUNGING,” whining, begging, muttering.—_North._
- MUNS, the mouth. _German_, MUND.—_Old cant._
- MUTTON, a lewd woman.—_Shakespere._
- NAP, or NAPPER, a hat. From NAB, a hat, cap, or head.—_Old cant._
- NARP, a shirt.—_Scotch._
- NATTY, pretty, neat, tidy.—_Old._
- NECK OR NOTHING, desperate.—_Racing phrase._
- NICK, or OLD NICK, the evil spirit.—_Scandinavian._
- NIGGLING, trifling, or idling; taking short steps in walking.—_North._
- Or, in the buckra man’s language—
- NOSER, a bloody or contused nose.—_Pugilistic._
- OFF ONE’S FEED, real or pretended want of appetite.—_Stable slang._
- OLD HORSE, salt junk, or beef.—_Sea._
- PAD, the highway; a tramp.—_Lincolnshire._
- PADRE, a clergyman.—_Anglo Indian._
- PASH, to strike; now corrupted to BASH, which see.—_Shakes._
- PEEL, to strip, or disrobe.—_Pugilistic._
- PEG, a shilling.—_Scotch._
- PETER, a partridge.—_Poacher’s term._
- PETER, a bundle, or valise.—_Bulwer’s Paul Clifford._
- PICKERS, the hands.—_Shakespere._
- PIECE, a contemptuous term for a woman; a strumpet.—_Shakespere._
- PINDARIC HEIGHTS, studying the odes of Pindar.—_Oxford._
- PINK, the _acmé_ of perfection.—_Shakespere._
- PIPE, to shed tears, or bewail; “PIPE one’s eye.”—_Sea term._
- PIPKIN, the stomach,—properly, an earthen round-bottomed pot.—_Norwich._
- PLUCKED, turned back at an examination.—_University._
- PONY, twenty-five pounds.—_Sporting._
- PRANCER, a horse.—_Ancient cant._
- PRO, a professional.—_Theatrical._
- PUMP SHIP, to evacuate urine.—_Sea._
- PUSH, a crowd.—_Old cant._
- PUT THE POT ON, to bet too much upon one horse.—_Sporting._
- QUI-HI, an English resident at Calcutta.—_Anglo Indian._
- RACLAN, a married woman.—_Gipsey._
- RAFE, or RALPH, a pawnbroker’s duplicate.—_Norwich._
- RATTLER, a cab, coach, or cart.—_Old cant._
- RELIEVING OFFICER, a significant term for a father.—_Univ._
- RIB, a wife.—_North._
- RIBBONS, the reins.—_Middlesex._
- RIBROAST, to beat till the ribs are sore.—_Old_; but still in use:—
- RIPPER, a first-rate man or article.—_Provincial._
- ROOK, a cheat, or tricky gambler; the opposite of PIGEON.—_Old._
- ROULEAU, a packet of sovereigns.—_Gaming._
- RUN (good or bad), the success of a performance—_Theatrical._
- SAL, a salary.—_Theatrical._
- SALTEE, a penny. Pence, &c., are thus reckoned:—
- SCHISM-SHOP, a dissenters’ meeting-house.—_University._
- SCONCE, the head, judgment, sense.—_Dutch._
- SCROUGE, to crowd or squeeze.—_Wiltshire._
- SCUFTER, a policeman.—_North country._
- SHACKLY, loose, rickety.—_Devonshire._
- SHAKE, a prostitute, a disreputable man or woman.—_North._
- SHAVER, a sharp fellow; “a young” or “old SHAVER,” a boy or man.—_Sea._
- SHEEN, bad money.—_Scotch._
- SHRIMP, a diminutive person.—_Chaucer._
- SHUNT, to throw or turn aside.—_Railway term._
- SING OUT, to call aloud.—_Sea._
- SKILLY, broth served on board the hulks to convicts.—_Linc._
- SKIPPER, a barn.—_Ancient cant._
- SKROUGE, to push or squeeze.—_North._
- SKY, a disagreeable person, an enemy.—_Westminster School._
- SKY WANNOCKING, unsteady, frolicking.—_Norfolk._
- SLAMMOCK, a slattern or awkward person.—_West_; and _Norf._
- SNID, a sixpence.—_Scotch._
- SNIGGERING, laughing to oneself.—_East._
- SNOTS, small bream, a slimy kind of flat fish.—_Norwich._
- SOFT TACK, bread.—_Sea._
- SPIFFED, slightly intoxicated.—_Scotch slang._
- SPIN, to reject from an examination.—_Army._
- SPLICE, to marry; “and the two shall become one flesh.”—_Sea._
- SPLICE THE MAIN BRACE, to take a drink.—_Sea._
- SPRY, active, strong, manly.—_Americanism._
- SQUARE RIGGED, well dressed.—_Sea._
- SQUINNY-EYED, squinting.—_Shakespere._
- STALE, to evacuate urine.—_Stable term._
- STAMPERS, shoes.—_Ancient cant._
- STICKS, pistols.—_Nearly obsolete._
- STIFF ’UN, a corpse.—_Term used by undertakers._
- STINGO, strong liquor.—_Yorkshire._
- STIPE, a stipendiary magistrate.—_Provincial._
- STOTOR, a heavy blow, a SETTLER.—_Old cant._
- SUCK, a parasite, flatterer of the “nobs.”—_University._
- SUN IN THE EYES, to have too much drink.—_Dickens._
- SUP, abbreviation of _supernumerary_.—_Theatrical._
- SURF, an actor who frequently pursues another calling.—_Theat._
- SWANKEY, cheap beer.—_West._
- SWIPES, sour or small beer. SWIPE, to drink.—_Sea._
- TACKLE, clothes.—_Sea._
- THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND, unsteady from drink.—_Sea._
- TIBBING OUT, going out of bounds.—_Charterhouse._
- TIFFIN, a breakfast, _dejeuner a la fourchette_.—_Anglo Indian slang._
- TOG, a coat. _Latin_, TOGA.—_Ancient cant._
- TOUT, to look out, or watch.—_Old cant._
- TRAPESING, gadding or gossiping about in a slatternly way.—_North._
- TRINE, to hang.—_Ancient cant._
- TROTTER, a tailor’s man who goes round for orders.—_University._
- TRUCK-GUTTED, pot-bellied, corpulent.—_Sea._
- VILLAGE, or THE VILLAGE, _i.e._, London.—_Sporting._
- VINNIED, mildewed, or sour.—_Devonshire._
- WEDGE, silver.—_Old cant._
- WHERRET, or WORRIT, to scold, trouble, or annoy.—_Old English._
- WHIDS, words.—_Old Gipsey cant._
- WHITECHAPEL, the “upper-cut,” or strike.—_Pugilistic._
- WIFE, a fetter fixed to one leg.—_Prison._
- WINN, a penny.—_Ancient cant._
- WIPE, a pocket handkerchief.—_Old cant._
- YARMOUTH CAPON, a bloater, or red herring.—_Old_—_Ray’s Proverbs._
- YOKEL, a countryman.—_West._
- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BACK SLANG,
- THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF COSTERMONGERS.
- GLOSSARY OF THE BACK SLANG.
- SLOP, a policeman.—_See Dictionary of Slang and Cant Words._
- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RHYMING SLANG,
- THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF CHAUNTERS AND PATTERERS.
- Dear Friend,[59]
- GLOSSARY OF THE RHYMING SLANG.
- I DESIRE, a fire.
- I SUPPOSE, the nose.
- THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR LANGUAGE;
- BAILEY’S (Nath.) Etymological English Dictionary, 2 vols, 8vo. 1737
- BROWN’S (Rev. Hugh Stowell) Lecture on Manliness, 12mo. 1857
- BRYDGES’ (Sir Egerton) British Bibliographer, 4 vols, 8vo. 1810–14
- BUTLER’S Hudibras, with Dr. Grey’s Annotations, 3 vols, 8vo. 1819
- COTTON’S (Charles) Genuine Poetical Works, 12mo. 1771
- DECKER’S (Thomas) Gulls Hornbook, 4to. 1609
- DICTIONARY of all the Cant and Flash Languages, 12mo. _London_, 1797
- DICTIONNAIRE des Halle, 12mo. _Bruxelles_, 1696
- DUNTON’S Ladies Dictionary, 8vo. _London_, 1694
- HALLIWELL’S Archaic Dictionary, 2 vols, 8vo. 1855
- William Griffith 1566
- William Griffith 1567
- William Griffith 1567
- Henry Middleton, 1573
- JONSON’S (Ben.) Masque of the Gipsies Metamorphosed, 4to. 16—
- MAGINN (Dr.) wrote Slang Songs in _Blackwood’s Magazine_. 1827
- MAYHEW’S (Henry) London Labour and London Poor, 3 vols, 8vo. 1851
- MAYHEW’S (Henry) Great World of London, 8vo. 1857
- MODERN FLASH DICTIONARY, 48mo. 1825
- PHILLIPS’ New World of Words, folio. 1696
- PICTURE OF THE FANCY, 12mo. 18—
- SHARP (Jeremy) The Life of an English Rogue, 12mo. 1740
- SMITH (Capt. Alexander) The Thieves Grammar, 12mo., p. 28. 17—
- SMITH’S (Capt.) Thieves Dictionary, 12mo. 1724
- SPORTSMAN’S DICTIONARY, 4to. 17—
- THOMAS (I.) My Thought Book, 8vo. 1825
- Footnotes
- OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
- THE CHOICEST HUMOROUS POETRY OF THE AGE.
- WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
- WITH A HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATION.
- CONTENTS.
- WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD BY THE AUTHOR, COLOURED AND PLAIN.
- WITH SEVENTY HUMOROUS DESIGNS BY THE AUTHOR.
- NEW WORK BY THE LATE DOUGLAS JERROLD.
- ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY CURIOUS WOODCUTS ON TINTED PAPER.
- A.D. 1215
- A LITERARY AND PHILOLOGICAL CURIOSITY.
- Transcriber’s Notes