The Vulgar Tongue: a Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases: Used in London from 1839 to 1859; Flash Songs, Essays on Slang, and a Bibliography of Canting and Slang LiteratureB. Quaritch, 1859 - 80 |
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Strona 28 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin, neck or nought ; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig.
Strona 1 - POVERTY, MENDICITY, and CRIME, or the Facts, Examinations, &c. upon which the Report, presented to the House of Lords, by WA Miles, Esq. was founded. To which is added a Dictionary of the Flash or Cant Language, known to every Thief and Beggar.
Strona 43 - He never goes away or withdraws, but he 'bolts' — he 'slopes' — he 'mizzles' — he 'makes himself scarce' — he 'walks his chalks' — he 'makes tracks' — he 'cuts stick' — or, what is the same thing, he 'cuts his lucky!' The highest compliment that you can pay him is to tell him that he is a 'regular brick.' He does not profess to be brave, but he prides himself on being ' plucky.' Money is a word which he has forgotten, but he talks a good deal about 'tin,' and the 'needful,' 'the rhino,
Strona 43 - Our young friend never scolds, but "blows up"; never pays but "stumps up"; never finds it difficult to pay, but is "hard up"; never feels fatigued, but is "used up". He has no hat, but shelters his head beneath a "tile". He wears no neckcloth, but surrounds his throat with a "choker". He lives nowhere, but there is some place where he "hangs out".
Strona 42 - The sporting world, like its brother, the swell mob, has a language oi its own ; but this dog-English extends far beyond the sporting world. It comes with its hordes of barbarous words, threatening the entire extinction of genuine English. Now, just listen for a moment to our fast young man, or the ape of a fast young man, who thinks that to be a man he must speak in the dark phraseology of slang. If he does anything on his own responsibility he does it on his own
Strona 65 - Only consider what a vast multitude of equivalents the perverse ingenuity of our slanginess has invented for the one word Money. Money — the bare, plain, simple word itself — has a sonorous, significant ring in its sound, and might have sufficed, yet we substitute for it — tin, rhino, blunt, rowdy, stumpy, dibbs, browns, stuff, ready, mopusses, shiners, dust, chips, chinkers, pewter, horsenails, brads; Seventeen synonyms to one word; and then we come to species— pieces of money. Sovereigns...
Strona 48 - ... the side and artful buttons at bottom, half a monarch. Pair of stout ditto, built very serious, 9 times. Pair of outand-out fancy sleeve Kicksies, cut to drop down on the trotters, 2 bulls. Waist Togs, cut long, with moleskin back and sleeves, 10 peg. Blue Cloth ditto, cut slap, with pearl buttons, 14 peg. Mud Pipes, Knee Caps, and Trotter Cases, built very low. " A decent allowance made to Seedy Swells, Tea Kettle Purgers, Head Robbers, and Flunkeys out of Collar.
Strona 69 - ... vis-a-vis, entremets, and some others of the flying horde of frivolous little foreign slangisms hovering about fashionable cookery and fashionable furniture ; but three-fourths of them would seem to him as barbarous French provincialisms, or, at best, but' as antiquated and obsolete expressions picked up out of the letters of Mademoiselle Scuderi, or the tales of Crebillon the younger.
Strona 64 - A writer in Household Words (No. 183) has gone so far as to remark, that a person " shall not read one single parliamentary debate, as reported in a first-class newspaper, without meeting scores of Slang words ;" and " that from Mr. Speaker in his chair, to the Cabinet Ministers whispering behind it — from mover to seconder, from true blue Protectionist to extremest Radical — Mr. Barry's New House echoes and re-echoes with Slang.
Strona 69 - French themselves not only universally abandon it to us, but positively repudiate it altogether from their idiomatic vocabulary. If you were to tell a well-bred Frenchman that such and such an aristocratic marriage was on the tapis, he would stare with astonishment, and look down on the carpet in the startled endeavour to find a marriage in so unusual a place. If you were to talk to him of the beau monde, he would imagine you meant the world which God made, not half-a-dozen streets and squares between...