Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 2 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
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"Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 2 [of 7]" by Farmer and Henley is a historical and comparative slang dictionary written in the late 19th century. It catalogues nonstandard English across classes and centuries, supplying definitions, etymologies, dated quotations, and multilingual analogues. This volume ranges from C to Fizzle, highlighting variant senses, usage labels, and cross-cultural parallels.
The opening of the volume presents the C-section of entries, beginning with cab (as a schoolboy “crib,” an old term for a brothel, and a verb) and moving through a wide array of terms such as cabbage (tailors’ pilferings with an extended derivation and many senses), cabby, caboodle, caboose, cad (from omnibus conductor to ill-bred person), cadger, cage (a local lock-up), cake (a fool, and “to take the cake”), calaboose, calculate (a U.S. colloquialism), calf-love, canary (prisoner, mistress, or sovereign), candle-keepers (Winchester school rank), candyman (northern evictio
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