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Filed under: English language -- Slang- Blackguardiana: or, A Dictionary of Rogues, Bawds, Pimps, Whores, Pickpockets, Shoplifters, Mail-Robbers, Coiners, House-Breakers, Murderers, Pirates, Gipsies, Mountebanks, &c. &c. (anonymous, but attributed to Caulfield as an expanded version of Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue; ca. 1793), ed. by James Caulfield, contrib. by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves (London: J. Duncombe, 1848), illust. by George Cruikshank
- Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms (New York: Hastings House, 1946), by Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
- The English Gipsies and Their Language (second edition; London: Trubner and Co., 1874), by Charles Godfrey Leland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Filed under: English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (updated after 1811), ed. by Francis Grose and Hewson Clarke, contrib. by Robert Cromie (Gutenberg text)
- A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London: S. Hooper, 1785), ed. by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
- Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang, and Phrase (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1909), by J. Redding Ware (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life (London: Printed for T. Hughes, 1823), by John Badcock (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Over the Top," By an American Soldier Who Went: Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, Serving in France; Together With Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches, by Arthur Guy Empey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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