It has been a little while since Clement Skitt showed up on the bean, but you may have gleaned from Clement Skitt’s word of the day that I have a bit of an affinity for vintage slang. I gave that affinity a place to live by making it a love of Clement Skitt, a comic character from Levi Levi and the Time Machine. Since the last word of the day post, I’ve stumbled on a couple more old slang dictionaries on the Internet Archive and figured I’d share in case you would like to peruse them while I do some reading up.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
- 1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland
- 1909 Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase by James Redding Ware
- Cab Calloway’s Hepster’s Dictionary
- Dictionary of American Slang by Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard
- A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words by John Camden Hotten
- Dictionary of Service Slang by Park Kenda
- Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Slang and its analogues by John S. Farmer and W. E. Henley
- A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang by Albert Barrere and Charles Godfrey Leland
- Flapperspeak: Dictionary of Words From the 1920’s and 1930’s
- Wikipedia: Hobo Expressions used through 1940s
- A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, in its several tribes of Gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats & c. with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, & c. by E. B. Gent
- Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase by Andrew Forrester in 1909
- Public School Slang by Morris Marples
- The slang dictionary: or, the vulgar words, street phrases and fast expressions of high and low society by John Camden Hotten, 1870