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Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature
Canting in the English Underworld in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"
reports only six cases in England in which references to thieves' cant occur in
court depositions rather than in imaginative literature, and all six occur after the ...
Thieves' cant or Rogues' cant was a secret language (a cant or cryptolect) which was formerly used by thieves, beggars and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the ...
The new style of cadgers' cant is nothing like the thieves' cant, and is done all on
the rhyming principle. This way 's the caper. Suppose I want to ask a pal to come
and have a glati of rum and smoke a pipe of tobacco, and have a game at cards ...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600
... German Liber Vagatorum; and the literary lineage continued far beyond
Harman: his work was generously plagiarized by Thomas Dekker and Samuel
Rid, and his vocabulary lists of thieves' cant formed the basis of later slang
dictionaries.
1 etc. ken thieves ' cant house 25 .20 (see note 1025.19-20) kenna know not
60.22 kend, kenn'd past participle known 64.4,64.33,139.18,272.21 kenn'd, kend
past tense knew 62.38 etc. kettle pot for cooking and boiling water 52.7, 328.25; ...
Sir Walter Scott, Peter Garside, 1999
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Gate of Horn, Book of Silk
In this companion guide, Michael Andre-Driussi illuminates Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun science fiction series through dictionary-style entries on the characters, gods, locations, themes, and timelines of the ...
Michael Andre-Driussi, Gene Wolfe, 2012
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A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
THIEVES' CANT IN KING LEAR S. MUSGROVE It is evident that Shakespeare, in
portraying Poor Tom the abram-man, or counterfeit madman and beggar, drew
on accurate knowledge, based probably on both experience and reading, of the ...
Vivian Salmon, Edwina Burness, 1987
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Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern ...
It was noted as 'thieves' cant' by eighteenth-century lexicographers, and it has
been well documented by Eric Partridge in successive editions of his A Dictionary
of Slang and Unconventional English (e.g. Partridge 1984). We review briefly ...
Howard Jackson, Etienne Zé Amvela, 2000
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Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
A NOTE ON THIEVES'CANT (t94?) Vita's fascinations extended to philology, as
witnessed by this piece on the differentiation between canL the 'tight and correct"
opposite of the "loose, expeessive, and metaphorical" slang that creeps into ...
Victoria Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws, 2003
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A Murder of Crows: A Sir Robert Carey
Mort—woman (Thieves' Cant) Nae blood tae his liver—it was believed that the
blood in your liver gave you courage—hence lily-livered, said of those whose
livers were pale. No doubt cirrhosis did make you cowardly. Nipped that bung—
stole ...
