Front matter
Reading edition
A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.
EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.
No good; too poor, and know too much.
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.
Gammy (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog.
Flummuxed (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod,” prison.
Religious, but tidy on the whole.
THE SLANG DICTIONARY ETYMOLOGICAL HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL
“THE WEDGE” AND THE “WOODEN SPOON.”
A NEW IMPRESSION
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1913