ISBN: 9798531604941

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology

Page count: 510

<b>About The Slang Dictionary</b><br> The Slang Dictionary is a dictionary of slang by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten. The first edition, published in 1859, featured the full title and subtitle: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: 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. Hotten's work was arguably the most important work on slang to appear since Francis Grose's 1785 Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. A quirky and humorous read, for lovers of words, language and comic turns of phrase.