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Filed under: English language -- Great Britain -- Slang -- Dictionaries Modern flash dictionary, containing all the cant words, slang terms, and flash phrases, now in vogue. (J. Duncombe, 1830), by George Kent (page images at HathiTrust) A new canting dictionary, comprehending all the terms, antient 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. (And sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1725) (page images at HathiTrust) The Public School Word-book: A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities, by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg ebook)
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