A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words / Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

by John Camden Hotten

[³²] See [Dictionary].

[³³] Mayhew, vol. i., p. 218.

[³⁴] Mr. Rawlinson’s Report to the General Board of Health,—Parish of Havant, Hampshire.

[³⁵] This term, with a singular literal downrightness, which would be remarkable in any other people than the French, is translated by them as the sect of Trembleurs.

[³⁶] Swift alludes to this term in his Art of Polite Conversation, p. 14. 1738.

[³⁷] See Notes and Queries, vol. i., p. 185. 1850.

[³⁸] He afterwards kept a tavern at Wapping, mentioned by Pope in the Dunciad.

[³⁹] Sportsman’s Dictionary, 1825, p. 15. I have searched the venerable magazine in vain for this Slang glossary.

[⁴⁰] Introduction to Bee’s Sportsman’s Dictionary, 1825.

[⁴¹] The Gipseys use the word Slang as the Anglican synonyme for Romany, the continental (or rather Spanish) term for the Cingari or Gipsey tongue. Crabb, who wrote the Gipsies’ Advocate in 1831, thus mentions the word:—“This language [Gipsey] called by themselves Slang, or Gibberish, invented, as they think, by their forefathers for secret purposes, is not merely the language of one or a few of these wandering tribes, which are found in the European nations, but is adopted by the vast numbers who inhabit the earth.”