Cant
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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
- 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)
- 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
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Computers -- Slang -- Dictionaries- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso, Briefly Summarised by His Daughter (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Gina Lombroso, contrib. by Cesare Lombroso (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The History of the Prison Psychoses (1912), by Paul H. Nitsche and Karl Wilmanns, trans. by Francis Barnes and Bernard Glueck (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Imprisonment (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Exposé of Successful Criminals (Boston: H. Houdini, 1906), by Harry Houdini (page images at HathiTrust)
- Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
- A Book of Remarkable Criminals, by H. B. Irving (Gutenberg text)
- A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley
- She Stands Accused, by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)
- We Who Are About to Die: Prison As Seen by a Condemned Man (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1935), by David Lamson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oliver Twist: A Serio-Comic Burletta, in Four Acts (French's Standard Drama #228; New York: S. French, ca. 1864), by George Almar, contrib. by Charles Dickens
- Israel Rank; The Autobiography of a Criminal (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Roy Horniman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Rogues and Vagabonds (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1892), by George R. Sims (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Something Doing (published as by "Varick Vanardy"; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1919), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, illust. by George W. Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Amateur Cracksman, by E. W. Hornung
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (in German; Berlin: Ullstein, c1920), by Norbert Jacques (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
- McAllister and His Double (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Arthur Train, illust. by F. C. Yohn and Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
- R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth, by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text)
- The Day of Days: An Extravaganza, by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by Arthur William Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Christmas Holiday (c1939), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)
- The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vidocq, the French Police Spy (New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq (multiple formats at archive.org)
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