Slang

Made in America

Bill Bryson

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalized.

Eric Partridge

The slang dictionary: or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced.

John Camden Hotten

The slang dictionary: etymological, historical, and anecdotal.

John Camden Hotten

Slang to-day and yesterday: with a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American, and Australian slang.

Eric Partridge

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Francis Grose

A dictionary of the underworld, British & American: being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs.

Eric Partridge

Slang down the ages: the historical development of slang

Jonathon Green.

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.

English villanies: eight severall times prest to death by the printers; but (still reviving againe) are now the ninth time (as at first) discovered by Lanthorne and candle-light, and the helpe of a new cryer, called O-Per-Se-O: whose lowd voyce proclaimes to all that will heare him, another conspiracie of abuses lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of this kingdome; which the bell-man (because he then went stumbling i'th' darke) could never see till now. And because a companie of rogues, cunning canting Gypsies, andall the scumme of our nation fight here under their owne tottered colours: at the end is a canting dictionarie, to teach their language; with canting songs. A book to make gentlemen merrie. Citizens warie countreymen carefull. Fit for all justices to readeover, because it is a pilot, by whom they may make strange discoveries.

Dekker, Thomas