- Avast p., 33
- as; as how, 28
- baccy, 25 + 39
- bally, 39
- bang up, 64
- berth, 40
- blarmed, 53
- blasted, 53
- blessed, 53
- blime, 53
- blather, 69
- blether, 69
- blither, 69
- bloke, 48
- blooming, 48
- blow, 53
- blue (to), 49
- blues (the), 28 + 69
- bob, 70
- boss-eyed, 49
- bricky, 25
- buck up, 47
- bullyrag, 49
- bunk, 48
- chap, 70
- chatty, 25
- chip in, 40
- chuck, 71
- chunk, 62
- clout, 50
- coach, 40
- cockey, 50
- cop, 50
- copper, 50
- cotton, 71
- cove, 51
- crammer, 40
- crib, 40
- curse, 51
- danged, 53
- damn, 52-54
- darned, 53
- dashed, 53
- dismals (the), 28 + 54
- do, 41
- doorstep, 54
- dotty, 25 + 71
- drat, 53
- dreamy, 25
- dusty, 25
- fair, 54
- fake, 55
- feeder, 40
- fizzing, 55
- fly, 55
- funk, 56
- Garn!, 56
- gal, 71
- gel, 71
- gent, 72
- gone on, 73
- governor, 56
- Great-go, 33
- grinder, 40
- grub, 57
- Honest Injun, 73
- hop off, 60
- hop the twig, 60
- hump, 73
- humpy, 25 + 73
- jaw, 41
- kick the bucket, 60
- kind of, 64
- lam, 57
- land, 41
- let on, 58
- Little-go, 33
- look, 74
- mash, 41
- mater, 34
- matey, 58
- milky, 25
- missis (the), 74
- missus (the), 74
- mug, 58
- nab, 59
- ninny, 25
- nob, 59
- nurse, 33
- office, 59
- pater, 34
- peg out, 59
- phiz, 60
- pitch, 60
- plough, 34
- pluck, 34
- posty, 25
- put away, 60
- queer fate, 60
- queer a pitch, 60
- queer the stifler, 60
- quid, 70
- rantan (to be on the), 75
- ratty, 34
- raughty, 61
- rheumatics, 54
- rocky, 61 + 75
- rorty, 61
- rotten, 76
- same as, 76
- savey, 61
- Sawny-headed, 62
- shoot, 35
- shove, 62
- shut up, 63
- shy, 71
- sight, 63
- sit, 63
- sivvy, 61
- skunk, 64
- slack, 35
- slap up, 64
- slapping, 64
- slapper, 64
- slippy, 42
- sonny, 25
- sort of, 64
- spin, 34 + 35
- spoony, 42
- spoons (to do), 64
- spree (to be on the), 75
- stodgy, 43
- stoney, 67
- stone-broke, 76
- stow it!, 65
- stow away, 60
- swag, 36
- swarry, 66
- sweat, 35
- swot, 35
- that (so-that), 29
- toff, toffy, 65
- tanner, 70
- Tommy rot, 76
- toss off, 77
- tree (to be up a), 66
- treed, 66
- tuck, 43
- tumble to, 77
- twig, 43
- wet, 66
About This Book
An analytical study examines vulgarism, cant, and colloquial speech in the fiction and essays of Jerome K. Jerome, surveying phonetics, inflection, and syntax to show how nonstandard registers function in his characterization. It classifies expressions as slang, vulgar, colloquial, or intermediate, notes their social distribution by speaker sex and education, and attempts historical and etymological tracing where possible. The author discusses methodological problems in distinguishing registers, cites contemporary authorities, and provides a bibliography and index to support close readings of how everyday and subcultural language contributes to tone, social detail, and narrative voice.