The Slang Dictionary: or vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society
- ISBN-10
- 1926671147
- ISBN-13
- 9781926671147
- Series
- The Slang Dictionary
- Pages
- 305
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1864
- Publisher
- Lulu.com
- Author
- John Camden Hotten
Description
Sometimes, for the sake of harmony, an extra syllable is prefixed or annexed; and occasionally the word is given quite a different turn in rendering it backwards, to what an uninitiated person would have expected. One coster told Mayhew ...
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Other editions
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- 2018-10-19
- 354 pages
- Paperback
- Franklin Classics Trade Press
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