The Routledge Dictionary of Historical SlangRoutledge, 2003. 9. 2. - 1066페이지 Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914. |
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... Romany, some Yiddish, some rhyming s.; some of it, too, verges on c. The authority on the subject is Mr Philip Allingham: see his fascinating Cheapjack, 1934. Hobson-Jobson . The deliberate perversion of foreign words into approximately ...
... Romany, some Yiddish, some rhyming s.; some of it, too, verges on c. The authority on the subject is Mr Philip Allingham: see his fascinating Cheapjack, 1934. Hobson-Jobson . The deliberate perversion of foreign words into approximately ...
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... Romany . The language of the English Gypsies. It contributes many words to c. and to low s., esp. grafters'. Shelta. is 'a kind of cryptic Irish spoken by tinkers and confirmed tramps; a secret jargon composed chiefly of Gaelic words ...
... Romany . The language of the English Gypsies. It contributes many words to c. and to low s., esp. grafters'. Shelta. is 'a kind of cryptic Irish spoken by tinkers and confirmed tramps; a secret jargon composed chiefly of Gaelic words ...
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... Romany ac!, stuff! ackman *, c., is a fresh-water thief: mid-C.18–19. Corruption of ARKMAN. F. & H. adduces also ack-pirate and ack-riff. acknowledge the corn , v.i. Admit, ackknowledge (Sala, 1883); ob. Ex U.S. (–1840), to admit ...
... Romany ac!, stuff! ackman *, c., is a fresh-water thief: mid-C.18–19. Corruption of ARKMAN. F. & H. adduces also ack-pirate and ack-riff. acknowledge the corn , v.i. Admit, ackknowledge (Sala, 1883); ob. Ex U.S. (–1840), to admit ...
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... Romany; the gypsies' bar prob. derives ex Romany bauro, big or heavy—cf. Gr. . bar,overthe . Half-drunk, fuddled: nautical: ca 1810–70. bar-keep . A bar-keeper: coll: late C.19–20. Abbr. bar-keeper. bar-rabble . A pre-arranged FAMINE ...
... Romany; the gypsies' bar prob. derives ex Romany bauro, big or heavy—cf. Gr. . bar,overthe . Half-drunk, fuddled: nautical: ca 1810–70. bar-keep . A bar-keeper: coll: late C.19–20. Abbr. bar-keeper. bar-rabble . A pre-arranged FAMINE ...
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... Romany berk (or burk), breast, pl berkia. cf.: Berkshire Hunt . The female pudend: rhyming s.: ?mid-C.19–20. Franklyn, Rhyming, believes it to form the original of the synonymous BERKELEY Hunt and the Berkeley form to be accidental ...
... Romany berk (or burk), breast, pl berkia. cf.: Berkshire Hunt . The female pudend: rhyming s.: ?mid-C.19–20. Franklyn, Rhyming, believes it to form the original of the synonymous BERKELEY Hunt and the Berkeley form to be accidental ...
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