The Routledge Dictionary of Historical SlangDrawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbr anglicized applied Australian ball beat beef beer blood blow blue boots Bowen bread brown buck bully butter Captain cards carry catch chalk cheat chuck Cockney common corruption dates derives dial Dickens drink drunk earlier early early 19 England English fellow give Grose hand head Hence horse jocular late C.18–early latter London low coll mainly Mayhew military nautical coll naval notes occurs officer one’s orig origin Oxford Perhaps ex person phrase play preceding prison prob Public rare recorded rhyming Romany says School Scott Scottish sense Shakespeare shilling ship Slang slightly Society soon sporting street suggests tailors talk term theatrical thing University variant verging Ware Whence Winchester College woman