A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.

EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.

☓ [Cross] NO GOOD; too poor, and know too much.
◠+ [Semicircle plus cross] STOP,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing).
⸧— [Forked branch] GO IN THIS DIRECTION, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way.
◇ [Diamond] BONE (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here.
▽ [Downward pointing triangle] COOPER’D (spoilt), by too many tramps calling there.
□ [Square] GAMMY (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog.
☉ [Circle with dot] FLUMMUXED (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod” (prison).
⊕ [Circle with cross] RELIGIOUS, but tidy on the whole.

A DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG, CANT, AND VULGAR WORDS,

USED AT THE PRESENT DAY IN THE STREETS OF LONDON; THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE; THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT; THE DENS OF ST. GILES; AND THE PALACES OF ST. JAMES.

PRECEDED BY A HISTORY OF CANT AND VULGAR LANGUAGE; WITH GLOSSARIES OF TWO SECRET LANGUAGES, SPOKEN BY THE WANDERING TRIBES OF LONDON, THE COSTERMONGERS, AND THE PATTERERS.

By A LONDON ANTIQUARY.

“Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up in them.”—South.

SECOND EDITION,
REVISED, WITH TWO THOUSAND ADDITIONAL WORDS.

LONDON:
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY.
1860.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND GREENING, GRAYSTOKE-PLACE,
FETTER-LANE, E.C.

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