A DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR WORDS,
Reading edition
USED AT THE PRESENT DAY IN THE STREETS OF LONDON; THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE; THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT; THE DENS OF ST. GILES; AND THE PALACES OF ST. JAMES.
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.
LONDON: PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND GREENING, GRAYSTOKE-PLACE, FETTER-LANE, E.C.