{"id":10258,"date":"2022-08-31T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T11:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:27:26","slug":"slang-at-the-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/slang-at-the-internet-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Slang at the Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been a little while since Clement Skitt showed up on the bean, but you may have gleaned from <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?s=clement+skitt\">Clement Skitt&#8217;s word of the day<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/levilevi\/levilevi-storyline\/the-time-machine\/\">Levi Levi and the Time Machine.<\/a>  Since the last word of the day post, I&#8217;ve stumbled  on a couple more old slang dictionaries on the Internet Archive and figured I&#8217;d share in case you would like to peruse them while I do some reading up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/1811dictionaryof05402gut\">1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue<\/a><\/em> by Francis Grose<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/americanslangdic00maitiala\">1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland<\/a><\/li><li>1909 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/passingenglishof00wareuoft\/page\/n6\/mode\/2up\">Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase<\/a><\/em> by James Redding Ware<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary\/\">Cab Calloway\u2019s Hepster\u2019s Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/dictionaryofamer56wood\">Dictionary of American Slang <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/dictionaryofamer56wood\">by Clement Wood and Gloria Goddard<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/008546982\">A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words by John Camden Hotten<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DictionaryOfServiceSlang\/page\/n1\/mode\/2up\">Dictionary of Service Slang by Park Kenda<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.87920\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Slang and its analogues by John S. Farmer and W. E. Henley<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/slangjargoncant01barriala\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon &amp; Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang by Albert Barrere and Charles Godfrey Leland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1929anupperclassaffair.com\/Flapperspeak.pdf\">Flapperspeak: Dictionary of Words From the 1920\u2019s and 1930\u2019s<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hobo\">Wikipedia: Hobo Expressions used through 1940s<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cu31924026564504\">A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew, in its several tribes of Gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats &amp; c. with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &amp; c. by E. B. Gent<\/a>\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/passingenglishof00wareuoft#page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase<\/a> by Andrew Forrester in 1909<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.52084\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\">Public School Slang by Morris Marples<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/slangdictionaryo00hottrich\">The slang dictionary: or, the vulgar words, street phrases and fast expressions of high and low society by John Camden Hotten, 1870<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a little while since Clement Skitt showed up on the bean, but you may have gleaned from Clement Skitt&#8217;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&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/slang-at-the-internet-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slang at the Internet Archive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[160,123],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-language","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5844,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":0},"title":"Clement Skitt&#8217;s word of the day","author":"leems","date":"August 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Seeing it was mizzling, the lallycooler inkslinger decided to stay in and have resurrection pie for his nooning. Let's dissect: Mizzling - drizzling rain (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland) Lallycooler - one who is pre-eminently successful in his line (daisy, dandy, darling, lullu) (1891 American Slang Dictionary by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ClementSkitt010a","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ClementSkitt010a.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5837,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/03\/27\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":1},"title":"Clement Skitt&#8217;s word of the day","author":"leems","date":"March 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Introducing Clement Skitt's word of the day.\u00a0 You may recognize Clement from Levi Levi and the Time Machine.\u00a0 He and his sister have since peeped into many different times and Clement has developed a healthy fascination with outdated slang.\u00a0 Today's slang: SEVEN-SIDED ANIMAL: a one-eyed man or woman, described as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ClementSkitt010","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ClementSkitt010.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6416,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":2},"title":"Clement Skitt&#8217;s Word of the Day","author":"leems","date":"May 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle.\" Let's dissect: Swell: gentleman (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose) Flash: Knowing. Understanding another's meaning.\u00a0\u00a0 (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland) Draw his fogle: pick his pocket of his silk handkerchief.\u00a0 (1891 American Slang Dictionary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ClementSkittsays005","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ClementSkittsays005-527x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5839,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":3},"title":"Clement Skitt&#8217;s word of the day","author":"leems","date":"April 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I wanted to have a butcher's so I took a Dublin packet and slapdash, a bracket-faced seven sided animal gave me a dub o' th' hick.\" Let's dissect: butchers:\u00a0 Cockney slang meaning look.\u00a0 Cockney slang, or rhyming slang, was most prevalent in the East End of London.\u00a0 It consists of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ClementSkitt010b","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ClementSkitt010b.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7569,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":4},"title":"Clement Skitt&#8217;s Word of the Day","author":"leems","date":"March 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I was out to get a sinker for nooning and some Big Six shambles in front of me without so much as a mind the grease.\u00a0 I was all glimflashy!\u00a0 But, I didn't want to go waking snakes so I cheesed it before starting a bobbery.\" What was that now?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"clementskitt069","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ClementSkitt069-248x400.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5846,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/01\/06\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":5},"title":"Clement Skitt&#8217;s word of the day","author":"leems","date":"January 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I set about kittle pitchering any tom long with a circumbendibus chestnut as soon as I see 'em.\" Let's dissect: KITTLE PITCHERING. 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