Slang dictionary
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A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. A slang dictionary may be synonymous with an urban dictionary.
Slang dictionaries have been compiled based on locale and culture. They are of interest to oral historians.
[edit] Famous slang dictionaries
The Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a seventeenth century slang dictionary written in 1673 by Richard Head.
Another early slang dictionary was Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, first published in 1785.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- British Library Texts in Context: 1785 - Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, available freely at Project Gutenberg
- British Library article on The Canting Academy
- Comprehensive online Dictionary of UK English Slang
- English Slang and Idioms
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