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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 4 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], Hotton's slang Dictionary. (search)
if not derived from singing, whining, canting — may come from this same source. There are slang words which have become accepted 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 of gentleman, in more senses than one. A dressy, showy, foppish man, with a little mind, who vulgarizes the prevailing fashion." Gent was, however, once a well-reputed word, as an adjective; and when Spenser wrote "He loved, as was his lot, a lady gent," and "A knight had wrought against a lady gent," he implied a compliment the very reverse of what such words would carry with them now. At another word, 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 gnoffes, Bob, Dick and Hick," but there the word means simply knaves. If the editor had applied to any one of the Jew "fencers," whence some o