Download or read book Lexicon Balatronicum A dictionary of Buckish slang University wit and Pick Pocket eloquence Altered and enlarged by a member of the Whip Club written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lexicon Balatronicum written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries written by Julie Coleman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.

Download or read book Vulgar Tongues written by Max Décharné and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang—from highwaymen to hip-hop—is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture, underground movements and secret societies; depending on your point of view, it is a badge of honor, a sign of identity or a dangerous assault on the values of polite society. Of all the vocabularies available to us, slang is the most alive, constantly evolving and—as it leaks into the mainstream and is taken up by all of us—infusing the language with a healthy dose of vitality. Witty, energetic and informative Vulgar Tongues traces the many routes of slang, beginning with the thieves and prostitutes of Elizabethan London and ending with the present day, where the centuries-old terms rap and hip-hop still survive, though their meanings have changed. On the way we will meet Dr. Johnson, World War II flying aces, pickpockets, schoolchildren, hardboiled private eyes, carnival geeks and the many eccentric characters who have tried to record slang throughout its checkered past. If you’re curious about flapdragons and ale passion, the changing meanings of punk and geek, or how fly originated on the streets of eighteenth-century London and square in Masonic lodges, this is the book for you.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Extensive Library of Rezin A Wight Esq of New York City written by Rezin A. Wight and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vulgar Tongue written by Jonathon Green and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century"--

Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Captain Francis Grose and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1931 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1931 edition of the classic that presents the fashionable words and favorite expressions of olden times.

Download or read book An Illustrated Catalogue of Old and Rare Books for Sale at Prices Affixed written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The High Kilted Muse written by Murray Shoolbraid and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made inquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript languished there since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a few items from time to time made an appearance. The manuscript has now been transcribed with full annotation and with an introduction on the compiler, his times, and the Scottish bawdy tradition. It contains the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy songs and ballads, along with a long-lost scatological poem attributed to the Edinburgh writer James “Balloon” Tytler. Appendices give details of Buchan's two published collections of ballads. Additionally, there is a list of tale types and motifs, a glossary of Scots and archaic words, a bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to light a long-suppressed volume and fills in a great gap in published bawdy songs and ballads.

Download or read book A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Printed Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank written by Albert Mayer Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Human Sexuality written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an examination of the use of human sexuality in classic literary works.

Download or read book Swearing written by Geoffrey Hughes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary developments, such as the growth of Political Correctness.

Download or read book Parodies of the Works of English American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.

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