The slang dictionary, or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society : many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words
London low life.
Main Author: Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873
Corporate Author: Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Language:English
Published: London : J.C. Hotten, 1869.
Edition:[Third edition].
Series:London low life.
Subjects:
English language > England > London > Slang > Dictionaries.
English language > Dialects > England > London > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
London (England) > Languages > Dictionaries.
Cant > England > London > Dictionaries.
Genre:
Dictionaries.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xxi, 305, 5 pages, 1 leaf of plates : 1 plan ; 19 cm
Variant Title:
Vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society.
Format: Electronic eBook
Description
Note:By John Camden Hotten.
First edition published in 1859 under the title: A dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words.
Publisher's advertisements: 5 pages at end.
Electronic resource.
Bibliography Note:"The bibliography of slang, cant, and vulgar language": pages [293]-305.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital ;. [Chicago, Ill.] : Adam Matthew Education [North American distributor], c2011 (London low life : street culture, social reform and the Victorian underworld)