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| FIRST ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF SLANG 1699 |
| by BODLEIAN LIBRARY |
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ISBN: 1851243488
- ISBN 13: 9781851243488 |
| AAB Internal Code: 5543841 |
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Pubblication year: 2010
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| Arrival date: 15/2/2011 |
| Published by: Bodleian Library (14203) |
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A number of early texts, beginning in the sixteenth century, codified forms of cant - the slang language of the criminal underworld - in word lists which appeared as appendices or parts of larger volumes, such as Robert Green's "Black Bookes' Messenger (1591)", and Richard Head's "Canting Academy (1673)". These early works sought to educate the more polite classes in the language (and methods) of thieves and vagabonds, protecting them from cant speakers and the 'wondrous' quality of their activities, should they be so unfortunate as to encounter such individuals. "A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew" by 'B.E. Gentleman' is the first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings. Containing such verbal delights as 'blobber-lippd' - very thick, hanging down, or turning over, and 'chounter' - to talk pertly, and (sometimes) angrily, it is also the first text which attempts to show the overlap and integration between canting words and common slang words.; In its refusal to distinguish between criminal vocabulary and the more ordinary everyday English of the period, it sets canting words side by side with terms used by sailors, labourers, and those in the common currency of domestic culture. With such a democratic attitude to words, B.E.'s dictionary is genuinely a modern dictionary as well as the first dictionary of slang. |
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