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• Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
• 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 (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• A thesaurus of slang, compiled and arranged by Howard N. Rose. (New York, The Macmillan company, 1934), by Howard N. Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular saying dissected. By A. Wallace. (New York, F. A. Stokes, [c1895]), by A. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. ([S.l. : s.n., 1884?-1896?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Gipsies and their language / by Charles G. Leland. (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How words grow; a brief study of literary style, slang, and provincialisms, by Leon Mead. (New York : T. Y. Crowell & co., [c1907]), by Leon Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blends, their relation to English word formation, by Louise Pound. (Heidelberg, C. Winter, 1914), by Louise Pound (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New words self-defined. (Garden City, New York, : Doubleday, Page & company, 1919), by C. Alphonso Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English idiomatic and slang expressions done into German, / by R. K. Torrens and Herbert Parker. (Strassburg, : K.J. Trübner, 1914), by R. K. Torrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The worth of words, by Dr. Raley Husted Bell, with an introduction by Dr. William Colby Coopper. (New York, Philadelphia [etc.] Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, inc., [c1903]), by Ralcy Husted Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blackguardiana: or, A dictionary of rogues ... Illustrated with eighteen portraits of the most remarkable professors in every species of villainy. Interspersed with many curious anecdotes, cant terms, flash songs, &c., the whole intended to put society on their guard against depredators; and was picked up by an inhabitant of St. James's, who was a spectator of a grand scuffle, on a Birth-day night. Copied for the inspection of the curious; and the original ready to be returned (on describing the binding, &c.) to the loser. ([London] Printed for J. Shepherd, [1793]), by James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musa pedestris. Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (1536-1896) collected and annotated by John S. Farmer. ([London] Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1896), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history and curious adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, king of the mendicants. (London, R. Davies, [1882?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grose's classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue / revised and corrected, with addition of numerous slang phrases collected from tried authorities, by Pierce Egan... (London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1823), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. (London, Printed for S. Hooper, 1788), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grose's classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue : Revised and corrected with the addition of numerous slang phrases collected from tried authorities / by Pierce Egan. (London : Printed for the editor and sold by all booksellers, 1823), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of slang and colloquial English; abridged from the seven-volume work, entitled: Slang and its analogues, by John S. Farmer and W.E. Henley. (London, G. Routledge & Sons, limited; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Odd derivations of words, phrases, slang, synonyms and Proverbs ... / by Wm. Hardcastle Browne. (Toronto ; Philadelphia : Drexel Biddle, 1901), by William Hardcastle Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Odd derivations of words, phrases, slang, synonyms and proverbs : Olla podrida, potpouri, salmagundi, melange / by Wm. Hardcastle Browne. (Philadelphia : Arnold, c1900), by William Hardcastle Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radio alphabet. (New York, Hastings House, 1946) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of service slang, compiled by Park Kendall. (New York, M.S. Mill Co., inc., [1944]), by Park Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary; or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology and a few with their history traced. (London, J.C. Hotten, 1870), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of slang and colloquial English : abridged from the seven-volume work, entitled : Slang and its analogues / by John S. Farmer and W. E. Henley. (London : G. Routledge ; New York : E. P. Dutton, 1912), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A vocabulary of criminal slang, with some examples of common usages, by Louis E. Jackson, assisted by C.R. Hellyer ... ([Portland, Or., Modern Printing Co., c1915]), by Louis E. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Student slang. By Willard C. Gore. ([Ann Arbor, 1895]), by Willard Clark Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vulgarities of speech corrected: with elegant expressions for provincial and vulgar English, Scots, and Irish; for the use of those who are unacquainted with grammar. (London, Printed for F.C. Westley, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. (London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1823), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musa pedestris. Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (London, Priv. print. for subscribers only, 1896), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English gipsies and their language. (Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1969), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heroes, villains, and fools; the changing American character. (Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, [1962]), by Orrin Edgar Klapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New canting dictionary: comprehending all the terms, ancient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains. Interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c. Being a complete collection of all that has been publish'd of that kind. With very large additions of words never before made publick ... With a preface, giving an account of the original, progress, &c. of the canting crew; and recommending methods for diminishing these varlets, by better employment of the poor. To which is added a complete collection of songs in the canting dialect. (London, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Word-coinage : being an inquiry into recent neologisms, also a brief study of literary style, slang, and provincialisms / by Leon Mead. (New York : T.Y. Crowell & co., [c1902]), by Leon Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slang : a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton, and the varieties of life, forming the compleat ... Lexicon balatronicum ... interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies ... / by John Bee [i.e. J.Badcock] (London : T. Hughes, 1823), by John Badcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary; or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology and a few with their history traced. (London, J. C. Hotten, 1865), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter : who was apprehended for robbing Dr. Hancock ... Written wholly by himself ... (Sherborne : Printed for R. Goadby, 1769), by John Poulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Slang dictionary : etymological, historical, and anecdotal. A new impression. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The public school word-book; a contribution to a historical glossary of words, phrases, and turns of expression obsolete and in present use, peculiar to our great public schools, together with some that have been or are modish at the universities, by John S. Farmer. (London, [Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & co.], 1900), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slang, a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of Bon-Ton, and the varieties of life : forming the completest and most authentic Lexicon Balatronicum hitherto offered to the notice of the sporting world, for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations, and rum-ones, with examples, proofs, and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats, and yokels / by Jon Bee. (London : Printed for T. Hughes, 1823), by John Badcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Gipsies and Their Language, by Charles Godfrey Leland (Gutenberg ebook)

• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (updated after 1811), ed. by Francis Grose and Robert Cromie (Gutenberg text)
• "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)
• 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)
• A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; slang--including the language of the underworld, colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized, by Eric Partridge. (New York, The Macmillan company, 1938), by Eric Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggars, thieves, cheats, &c. with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c. by B.E. gent. London, Printed for W. Hawes, P. Gilbourne and W. David [1690?] ([London, Smith, Kay & co., 1899]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lexicon balatronicum. A dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence. Compiled originally by Captain Grose. And now considerbly altered and enl., with the modern changes and improvements, by [Hewson Clarke] a member of the Whip Club. Assisted by Hell-fire Dick, and James Gordon, esqrs. of Cambridge; and William Soames, esq. of the hon. Society of Newman's Hotel. (London, Printed for C. Chappel, 1811), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocabulum; or, The rogue's lexicon. Comp. from the most authentic sources. By George W. Matsell. (New York, G. W. Matsell, 1859), by George Washington Matsell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, gypsies' jargon and other irregular phraseology. Comp. and ed. by Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland. (London, G. Bell, 1897), by Albert Barrère (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American slang dictionary, (Chicago, R. J. Kittredge & co., 1891), by James Maitland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire de slang et d'expressions familières anglaises, par Charles Legras. (Paris, Garnier frères, 1922), by Charles Legras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang, and phrase; by J. Redding Ware ... (London, G. Routledge & sons, limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & co., [1909]), by James Redding Ware (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang, and phrase. (London, Routledge; New York, Dutton, [1909]), by James Redding Ware (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant, embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinker's jargon, and other irregular phraseology. Compiled and edited by Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland. With a new introd. by Eric Partridge. (Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1967), by Albert Marie Victor Barrère (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of slang and unconventional English; (New York, The Macmillan company, 1937), by Eric Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of slang, jargon & cant embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinkers' jargon and other irregular phraseology. Comp. and ed. by Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland. ([London] The Ballantyne press, 1889-90), by Albert Marie Victor Barrère (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The public school word-book : a contribution to a historical glossary of words, phrases, and turns of expression, obsolete and in present use, peculiar to our great public schools, together with some that have been or are modish at the universities / by John S. Farmer. (London [Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.], 1900), by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "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; 16 illustrations and diagrams. (New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, [1917]), by Arthur Guy Empey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The slang dictionary, etymological, historical, and anecdotal. (London, Chatto and Windus, 1874), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 / by a London antiquary. (London : John Camden Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural dialect of Grant county, Indiana, in the 'nineties, by W. L. McAtee ... ([Washington? Priv. print., 1942]), by W. L. McAtee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue. (London, S. Hooper, 1785), by Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 from the time of Henry VIII, shewing its connection with the Gipsey tongue : with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers / by a London antiquary. (London : John Camden Hotten ..., 1859), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slang dictionary : or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society : many with their etymology and a few with their history traced. (London : J. C. Hotten, 1869), by John Camden Hotten (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, illust. by George Cruikshank (Gutenberg ebook)

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