Slang
Use as a topical subdivision under individual languages and groups of languages and under topical headings.
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The New Hacker's Dictionary (online version, aka the Jargon File), ed. by Eric S. Raymond (HTML with commentary at catb.org)
- 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)
- 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)
- Green's Dictionary of Slang (online edition), by Jonathon Green (HTML at greensdictofslang.com)
- 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)
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
- Redskins: Insult and Brand (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, c2016), by C. Richard King (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Verzeichniss und Erklärung Amerikanischer Historischer, Geographischer und Politischer Bei-, Spitz- und Spott-Namen (Surnames and Nicknames) (in German; Hoboken, NJ: H. D. Gerdts, 1869), by W. Mussehl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionnaire Argot-Français et Français-Argot (in French; Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1896), by Georges Delesalle, contrib. by Jean Richepin
- Die Deutsche Soldatensprache (in German; Giessen: Ricker, 1899), by Paul Horn
- Deutsche Soldatensprache: Ihr Aufbau und ihre Probleme (in German; Strassburg: K. J. Trubner, 1917), by Otto Mausser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Rotwelsch: Quellen und Wortschatz der Gaunersprache und der Verwandten Geheimsprachen (only part published, in German; Strasbourg: K. J. Trübner, 1901), by Friedrich Kluge
- Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture: A Selected Guide to Russian Words, Idioms, and Expressions of the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Irina H. Corten (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Cant- 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
- Pachuco: An American-Spanish Argot and Its Social Functions in Tucson, Arizona (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1969), by George C. Barker (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Arizona)
- The Underworld Speaks: An Insight to Vice, Crime, Corruption (San Francisco: Prevent Crime Bureau, c1935), by Albin J. Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rotwelsch: Quellen und Wortschatz der Gaunersprache und der Verwandten Geheimsprachen (only part published, in German; Strasbourg: K. J. Trübner, 1901), by Friedrich Kluge
- Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
- Don't Swear! ("no. 10"; Raleigh, NC: Board of Missions of the North Carolina Baptist Convention, n.d.), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter
- Don't Swear! ("no. 32"; Civil war era), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter
- Why Do You Swear?, by John Nevins Andrews