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- Author: Francis Grose
- Publisher: Litres
- ISBN: 5043821477
- Category : Foreign Language Study
- Languages : en
- Pages : 443
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. By Francis Grose.
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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- Author: Scáth Beorh
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN: 9781727187199
- Category :
- Languages : en
- Pages : 184
This 1811 edition is based on Captain Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' first published in 1785, and is a dictionary of slang words. Grose was one of the first lexicographers to collect slang words from all corners of English-speaking society, not just from the professional underworld of pickpockets and bandits. So while 'The Vulgar Tongue' includes many of the words found in earlier 'scoundrels'' dictionaries (such as Head's 'Canting Academy'), it also lists a whole range of mundane slang words sure to inform the writer and researcher as well as entertain the vulgar.
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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- Author: Francis Grose
- Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
- ISBN: 338704268X
- Category : Fiction
- Languages : en
- Pages : 498
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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- Author: Francis Grose
- Publisher: CreateSpace
- ISBN: 9781503206137
- Category :
- Languages : en
- Pages : 304
"[...] ABRAM COVE. A cant word among thieves, signifying a naked or poor man; also a lusty, strong rogue. ABRAM MEN. Pretended mad men. TO SHAM ABRAM. To pretend sickness. ACADEMY, or PUSHING SCHOOL. A brothel. The Floating Academy; the lighters on board of which those persons are confined, who by a late regulation are condemned to hard labour, instead of transportation.-Campbell's Academy; the same, from a gentleman of that name, who had the contract for victualling the hulks or lighters. ACE OF SPADES. A widow. ACCOUNTS. To cast up one's accounts; to vomit. ACORN. You will ride a horse foaled by an acorn, i.e. the gallows, called also the Wooden and Three-legged Mare. You will be hanged.-See THREE-LEGGED MARE.[...]".
