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The slang dictionary, or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society : many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced

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Type of record: Book

Title: The slang dictionary, or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society : many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Rom Fraser/HOT

Creator(s): Hotten, John Camden (1832-1873)

Publisher: J.C. Hotten

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1865

Language: English

Size and medium: xxi, 305 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/323337

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016213589705181

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

Description

First issued 1859 under title: A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words.


Prefaced signed: J. C. H.


"The bibliography of slang, cant, and vulgar language": p. [293]-305.

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Signed by Sam.[?] W. Robbins, [?], Jan'y 1st 1868

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