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Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004988478
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z218313205
Author : John Camden-Hotten
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752335897
Reproduction of the original: The Slang Dictionary by John Camden-Hotten
Author : JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Slang, like everything else, changes much in the course of time; and though but fifteen years have elapsed since this Dictionary was first introduced to the public, alterations have since then been many and frequent in the subject of which it treats. The first issue of a work of this kind is, too, ever beset with difficulties, and the compiler was always aware that, though under the circumstances of its production the book was an undoubted success, it necessarily lacked many of the elements which would make that success lasting, and cause the “Slang Dictionary” to be regarded as an authority and a work of reference not merely among the uneducated, but among people of cultivated tastes and inquiring minds. For though the vulgar use of the word Slang applies to those words only which are used by the dangerous classes and the lowest grades of society, the term has in reality, and should have—as every one who has ever studied the subject knows—a much wider significance. Bearing this in mind, the original publisher of this Dictionary lost no opportunity[vi] of obtaining information of a useful kind, which could hardly find place in any other book of reference, with the intention of eventually bringing out an entirely new edition, in which all former errors should be corrected and all fresh meanings and new words find a place. His intention always was to give those words which are familiar to all conversant with our colloquialisms and locutions, but which have hitherto been connected with an unwritten tongue, a local habitation, and to produce a book which, in its way, would be as useful to students of philology, as well as to lovers of human nature in all its phases, as any standard work in the English language. The squeamishness which tries to ignore the existence of slang fails signally, for not only in the streets and the prisons, but at the bar, on the bench, in the pulpit, and in the Houses of Parliament, does slang make itself heard, and, as the shortest and safest means to an end, understood too. My predecessor, the original compiler, did not live to see his wish become an actual fact; and, failing him, it devolved upon me to undertake the task of revision and addition. How far this has been accomplished, the curious reader who is possessed of a copy of each edition can best judge for himself by comparing any couple of pages he may select. Of my own share in the work I wish to say nothing, as I have mainly benefited by the labours of others; but I may say[vii] that, when I undertook the position of editor of what, with the smallest possible stretch of fancy, may now be called a new book, I had no idea that the alteration would be nearly so large or so manifest. However, as the work is now done, it will best speak for itself, and, as good wine needs no bush, I will leave it, in all hope of their tenderness, to those readers who are best qualified to say how the task has been consummated. In conclusion, it is but fair for me to thank, as strongly as weak words will permit, those gentlemen who have in various ways assisted me. To two of them, who are well known in the world of literature, and who have not only aided me with advice, but have placed many new words and etymologies at my service, I am under particular obligation. With this I beg to subscribe myself, the reader’s most obedient servant,
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547589464
"The slang dictionary : Etymological, historical and anecdotal" by John Camden Hotten. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:658777950
Author : John Camden Hotten,Christopher Stray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248680732
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1377861937
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Author : Hotten John Camden
Publisher : Double 9 Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 935871459X
John Camden Hotten wrote a book titled The Slang Dictionary Etymological Historical and Anecdotal, which was originally released in 1859. The book offers a compilation of slang terms and expressions from that era, together with explanations of their origins and definitions. Along with slang from different social classes and professions, it also contains slang used by criminals. The book went through many versions since it was well-liked at the time and subsequent editions included new slang terminology and updated definitions. For linguists, historians, and anybody else interested in the development of the English language, the book continues to be an important source of information.
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505682517
Cant and Slang are universal and world-wide. By their means is often said in a sentence what would otherwise take an hour to express. Nearly every nation on the face of the globe, polite and barbarous, has its divisions and subdivisions of various ranks of society. These are necessarily of many kinds, stationary and wandering, civilized and uncivilized, respectable and disreputable,- those who have fixed abodes and avail themselves of the refinements of civilization, and those who go from place to place picking up a precarious livelihood by petty sales, begging, or theft. This peculiarity is to be observed amongst the heathen tribes of the southern hemisphere, as well as in the oldest and most refined countries of Europe. In South Africa, the naked and miserable Hottentots are pestered by the still more abject Sonquas; and it may be some satisfaction for us to know that our old enemies at the Cape, the Kaffirs, are troubled with a tribe of rascals called Fingoes,-the former term, we are informed by travellers, signifying beggars, and the latter wanderers and outcasts. In South America, and among the islands of the Pacific, matters are pretty much the same. Sleek rascals, without much inclination towards honesty, fatten, or rather fasten, like the insects in the famous epigram, upon other rascals, who would be equally sleek and fat but for their vagabond dependents. Luckily for respectable persons, however, vagabonds, both at home[2] and abroad, generally show certain outward peculiarities which distinguish them from the great mass of law-abiding people on whom they subsist. Observation shows that the wandering races are remarkable for an abnormal development of the bones of the face, as the jaws, cheek-bones, &c., for high-crowned, stubborn-shaped heads, quick, restless eyes,[1] and hands nervously itching to be doing; for their love of gambling; for sensuality of all kinds; and for their use of a Cant language with which to conceal their designs and plunderings.
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230272623
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... A SHORT HISTORY OF SLANG, THE VULGAR LANGUAGE OF FAST 'LIFE. SLANG is the language of street humour, of fast, high, and low life. Cant," as was stated in the chapter upon that subject, is the vulgar language of secrecy. It must be admitted, however, that within the past few years they have become almost indivisible. They are both universal and ancient, and appear to have been, with certain exceptions, the offspring of gay, vulgar, or worthless persons in every part of the world at every period of time. Indeed, if we are to believe implicitly the saying of the wise man, that "there is nothing new under the sun," the "bloods" of buried Nineveh, with their knotty and door-matty-looking beards, may have cracked Slang jokes on the steps of Sennacherib's palace; while the stocks and stones of ancient Egypt, and the bricks of venerable and used-up Eabylon, may be covered with Slang hieroglyphs, which, being perfectly unknown to modern antiquaries, have long been stumbling-blocks to the philologist; so impossible is it at this day to say what was then authorized, or what vulgar, language. The only objection that can be raised to this idea is, that Slang was, so far as can be discovered, traditional, and unwritten, until the appearance of this volume, a state of things which accounts for its many changes, and the doubtful orthography of even its best known and most permanent forms. Slang is almost as old as speech, and must date from the congregating together of THE SLANG DICTIONARY. 35 people in cities. It is the result of crowding, and excitement, and artificial life. We have traces of this as far as we can refer "back. Martial, the epigrammatist, is full of Slang. When an uninvited guest accompanied his friend, the Slang...
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : anboco
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736414884
"All ridiculous words make their first entry into a language by familiar phrases; I dare not answer for these that they will not in time be looked upon as a part of our tongue."—SPECTATOR. "Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild fire wrapt up in them."—SOUTH. "Slang derivations are generally indirect, turning upon metaphor and fanciful allusions, and other than direct etymological connexion. Such allusions and fancies are essentially temporary or local; they rapidly pass out of the public mind: the word remains, while the key to its origin is lost." "Many of these [slang] words and phrases are but serving their apprenticeship, and will eventually become the active strength of our language."—H. T. BUCKLE.
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295141043
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Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798453068876
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:461105574