The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and AnecdotalChatto and Windus, 1874 - 382 páginas |
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... common management . In some cases Gipsies joined the English gangs ; in others , English vagrants joined the Gipsies . The fellowship was found convenient and profitable , as both parties were aliens . to the laws and customs of the ...
... common management . In some cases Gipsies joined the English gangs ; in others , English vagrants joined the Gipsies . The fellowship was found convenient and profitable , as both parties were aliens . to the laws and customs of the ...
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... common use amongst the male Gipsies , so appointed by Gipsy custom . Gipsy . Lobs , words . Lowre , money . Ancient Cant . Mammy , or MAMMA , a mother , formerly sometimes used for grandmother . ( * ) Maund , to beg . Mot , a prostitute ...
... common use amongst the male Gipsies , so appointed by Gipsy custom . Gipsy . Lobs , words . Lowre , money . Ancient Cant . Mammy , or MAMMA , a mother , formerly sometimes used for grandmother . ( * ) Maund , to beg . Mot , a prostitute ...
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... common use could be at once traced to its source , having been adopted as our language has developed towards its present shape through many varied paths . Instances continually occur nowadays of street vulgarisms ascending to the ...
... common use could be at once traced to its source , having been adopted as our language has developed towards its present shape through many varied paths . Instances continually occur nowadays of street vulgarisms ascending to the ...
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... common stock . Gipsy , then , started , and was partially merged into Cant ; and the old story told by Harrison and others , that the first in- ventor of canting was hanged for his pains , would seem to be a humorous invention , for ...
... common stock . Gipsy , then , started , and was partially merged into Cant ; and the old story told by Harrison and others , that the first in- ventor of canting was hanged for his pains , would seem to be a humorous invention , for ...
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... common prefix , and meant bad or wicked , —it now means odd , curious , or strange ; but to the ancient Cant we are possibly indebted 66 * Shaks . Henry IV . , part ii . act ii . scene 4 . It is but fair to imagine that cheat ultimately ...
... common prefix , and meant bad or wicked , —it now means odd , curious , or strange ; but to the ancient Cant we are possibly indebted 66 * Shaks . Henry IV . , part ii . act ii . scene 4 . It is but fair to imagine that cheat ultimately ...
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Términos y frases comunes
allusion American amongst Ancient Cant applied Artemus Ward back slang beat beer beggars blow bookmakers boys Brummagem called Cant language cant term Cant words cards CHARLES DICKENS cheat chete cloth extra Cockney coin colour common connexion corruption costermongers cribbage Crown 8vo curious denote derived Dictionary drink drunk edition English expression fashionable favourite Fcap fellow formerly French frequently gilt Gipsy give Grose horse Hudibras illustrated Irish kind latter Lingua Franca London means modern nose old cant one's originally Oxford PANTILE paper peculiar penny person phrase PICCADILLY piece Pierce Egan popular prison Probably public-house pugilistic race reference remark rhyming slang sailors SALTEE Scotch SCREEVE sense Seven Dials Shakspeare shillings signifies sixpence slang term sometimes song speech sporting steal story street supposed synonymous thief thieves tion tongue tramps vagabonds vulgar Winchester College woman
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