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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], Hotton's slang Dictionary. (search)
Hotton's slang Dictionary. Mr. Hotton's list does not contain the word canter, which was primitively a slang word for the amble of horses of the pilgrims on theted English. There are also good old English words which have become slang. Mr. Hotton should have notices this when he defined the word "gent" as "a contraction ofword, Gonnof, applied to a "fool, a bungler, an amateur pickpocket, " we find Mr. Hotton all abroad again for its derivation. He refers to Chancer's "Country gnoffesk origin of "Lord," as applied to those who are vulgarly called "hunchbacks," Mr. Hotton is silent. It is from Aogdoc, bent. He has also strangely omitted what may n to a Romish prayer, "Oh mihi betie Martine!" While "Please the Pigs," which Mr. Hotton omits, is another form of "Please the Pyx!" Mr. Hotton omits, too, "Mother CaMr. Hotton omits, too, "Mother Cary's Chickens, " the sailors' slang for snow; the "Mother Cary" being the Mata Cara, the virgin mother of the Levantine sailors, to whom we also owe the name of Petre