A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

Front matter

Reading edition

A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.

EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.

NO GOOD; too poor, and know too much.

☓ [Cross]

STOP,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing).

GO IN THIS DIRECTION, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way.

BONE (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here.

COOPER’D (spoilt), by too many tramps calling there.

▽ [Downward pointing triangle]

GAMMY (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog.

□ [Square]

FLUMMUXED (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod” (prison).

☉ [Circle with dot]

RELIGIOUS, but tidy on the whole.

⊕ [Circle with cross]

See page 37.