Transcriber’s Note: The cover image was produced by the transcriber using a modified illustration from the book, and is placed into the public domain.
A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.
| EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS. | |
 | No good; too poor, and know too much. |
 | Stop,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing). |
 | Go in this direction, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way. |
 | Bone (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here. |
 | Cooper’d (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there. |
 | Gammy (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog. |
 | Flummuxed (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod,” prison. |
 | Religious, but tidy on the whole. |
THE
SLANG DICTIONARY
ETYMOLOGICAL
HISTORICAL AND ANECDOTAL
A NEW IMPRESSION
PREFACE.
Slang, like everything else, changes much in thecourse of time; and though but fifteen yearshave elapsed since this Dictionary was first introducedto the public, alterations have since then been many andfrequent in the subject of which it treats. The first issueof a work of this kind is, too, ever beset wit
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