Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected, With the Addition of Numerous Slang Phrases, Collected From Tried Authories —— Revised and Corrected, With the Addition of Numerous Slang Phrases, Collected From Tried Authories

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ISBN: 9781334394416 出版年：2018 页码：287 Pierce Egan Forgotten Books

The Vulgar Tongue consists of two parts the first is the Cant' language, called communes Pedlars French, or St. Giles's Greek; the second, those burlesque phrases, quaint allusions, and nick-names for persons, things, and places, which, from long uninterrupted usage, are made classical by prescription.