#ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-1c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-2c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-3c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-4c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-5c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-6c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-7c, #ad-hoc-5 .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } Of an informer, evidence, etc. Like many staple 1940s recipes, meatloaf experienced a resurgence in popularity during the Great Depression. The secret language that broke taboos. #cl-warea-id-5 .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-5 .cl-warea-row .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-5.cl-warea-all .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-5.cl-warea-original .cl-widget { width: 100%; } .search-results .post .date { display: none; } .format-audio .tags { float: right; text-align: right; } I love all those B-Movies. #container { padding-left: 222px; padding-right: 222px; } border-left: 1px solid #000000; At least I think he does. #main-col, .page-template-no-sidebars-php #main-col, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #main-col, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #main-col, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #main-col, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #main-col, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #main-col { .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #sidebar.flattened, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-b.flattened { Cant find any info. margin-left: 0px; #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-1c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-2c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-3c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-4c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-5c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-6c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-7c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } -ms-box-sizing: border-box; transition: opacity 500ms linear; #cl-warea-id-2 .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-2 .cl-warea-row .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-2.cl-warea-all .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-2.cl-warea-original .cl-widget { width: 100%; } My dad (b.1920) always said its the shank of the evening to mean its early yet, dont leave. Usually he said it to people whod been around for some considerable time, so it may have been ironic. #container, .page-template-no-sidebars-php #container, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #container, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #container, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #container, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #container, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #container { padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; } width: 212px; .post.format-chat span.author { float: left; padding-right: 10px; } Each gay enclave, wrote George Chauncey in his book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, had a different class and ethnic character, cultural style . 1940s slang was born from the ashes of the Great Depression and the growth of an economy. .page-template-1r-sidebar-php .sidebar-container-left #sidebar-wrap { right: auto; } width: 162px; .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-1c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-2c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-3c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-4c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-5c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-6c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-7c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-8c { width: 100%; } A dictionary of slang - "B" - Slang and colloquialisms of the UK. It first appears in written form in the 1940s. [5][14] A dictionary of service slang by J. L. Hunt and A. G. Pringle was published in 1943. Gold; demonetized within one year. 25. I learned it all from Kookie of 77 Sunset Strip fame, he was the skizziest. Alamy. #sidebar-shell-2 { width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; float: right; } CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a kind of code that tells the browser how Its kind of poetic. #slider, #sliderContent { max-height: 250px; } .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-1, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-2 {width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;left: auto; right: auto; float: right;} border-top: 1px solid #000000; What did shaking her fans mean? .page-template-2l-sidebars-php .tags { #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-1c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-2c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-3c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-4c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-5c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-6c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-7c, #ad-hoc-3 .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } The 1940s slang came out of a unique time when the United States was rebounding from the Great Depression and becoming embroiled in World War II, a situation that would actually help set up the economic growth the country enjoyed at the end of the decade. box-sizing: border-box; } For eating out there were British Restaurants (government-subsidized, and serving basic fare; 1941), while at home there were (if you had the points (1939) that entitled you to rationed food) such delicacies as luncheon meat (1945), national milk, butter, etc. .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #widgets-above-header .col-control { width: 1200px }.page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #nav .col-control { width: 1200px } Even a Brit would find it difficult getting 1940s slang accurate, and that's without the UK/US issue. 15 Old-Timey Names for 'Gay'. Bird = Girl. bag of bones Noun. #sidebar-shell-1 { width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; float: left; } .page-template-1l-sidebar-php .sidebar-wrap-left { margin-left: 15px; right: auto; body { color: #331705; font-family: 'Andika', sans-serif; } .sidebar-wrap-right #sidebar-shell-1 { float: right; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0;} [7], The first recorded uses of slang in Britain occurred in the 16th century in the plays of Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton and William Shakespeare. Beardsplitter. .gallery-container { padding-right: 266px }.gallery-contents { width: 250px }.gallery-contents.left { left: -266px }.gallery-contents.right { margin-right: -266px } #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-1c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-2c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-3c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-4c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-5c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-6c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-7c, #ad-hoc-1 .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #wrapper { width: 1000px; max-width: 1000px; min-width: 1000px; } background: rgb(0,0,0) ; .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #sidebar, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #sidebar-b, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #sidebar-shell-1 { Sign up for our weekly newsletters and get: By signing in, you agree to our Terms and Conditions #widgets-above-header { width: 1200px; max-width: 1200px; min-width: 1200px; } I want to receive exclusive email updates from YourDictionary. He is jagged. , Staff Writer. you for a cube: .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #sidebar, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #sidebar-b, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #sidebar, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-b { width: 100%; } #cl-warea-id-2 .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-2 .cl-warea-row .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-2.cl-warea-all .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-2.cl-warea-original .cl-widget { width: 100%; } Ill have a order of cackle berries with two oinks and a haystack, java and background: rgb(176,5,39) ; #ie6 .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar, #ie6 .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-b, #ie6 .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-shell-1 { -moz-box-sizing: border-box; The dominant human application of prawn was unflattering in 1895, but there is a single OED citation suggesting that, for some people at least, the noun could be an endearment. #cl-warea-id-1 .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-1 .cl-warea-row .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-1.cl-warea-all .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-1.cl-warea-original .cl-widget { width: 100%; } #nav ul.sf-menu, #nav-top ul.sf-menu { display: none; } #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-container { ; .sidebar-container-left { right: 222px; } #cl-warea-id-1 .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-1 .cl-warea-row .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-1.cl-warea-all .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-1.cl-warea-original .cl-widget { width: 100%; } background: rgb(0,0,0) ; Before 'gay' became common and accepted parlance, the world invented its own unofficial terms for men who dug men. margin-right: 0px; .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right { width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; } Doreen says. [12] Sometimes a Spoonerism, is employed to make taboo speech more acceptable. It must have carried over to the 50s! By default, your stylesheet will be loaded after the theme stylesheets, } .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container { width: 275px; } Soundtracks: "Hops the Atlantic" Neo Swing & WWII NEW! for you all Ive searched all over the internet And for the life of me, cant think of what T.L means. #ie6 #sidebar-shell-1 { greatest of all time. .previous-entries .icon, .next-entries .icon, .post-nav .previous .icon, .post-nav .next .icon, h3.comments .icon, #reply-title .icon, input.inside, .exif-button .icon, #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #main-col { width: 600px } } .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-2, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-2-b, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-shell-2 { A very thin or emaciated person or animal. By the time the term crossed the pond in the 1940s, it meant "old man," which is how the word is still used in American English today. #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-1c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-2c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-3c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-4c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-5c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-6c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-7c, #widgets-above-header .suf-widget-8c { width: 32%; margin: 5px 0.49%; } .mm-row-equal:after { content: ''; width: 100%; display: inline-block; font-size: 0; line-height: 0 } In British Cockney slang from the 1880s, a "geezer" was a man in a mask or a disguise (emphasis on the "guise" part of the pronunciation). Baccy: shortened word for "tobacco;" also, "wacky backy" means marijuana. [CDATA[ Wonky - is another word for shaky or unstable. Thanks for taking the time to post a comment. max-width: 355px; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right { width: 100%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; } #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-1, #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-1, #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-2, #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-2 {width: 100%;} When I watch a classic movie, I sit with pen in hand and write them down. It definitely doesnt mean Tender Love; I just listened to a George Burns and Gracie Allen episode in which Bill Goodwin used the phrase, I got a T.L. .post div.date { From the music and the movies to the fashion style -- it was one of the most memorable decades in American history and the slang was something that was unique to the era. .page-template-2l-sidebars-php .tab-box { This is one of my favorite decades. .format-image .postdata .category{ float: left; } } h4 { color:#4F2408;font-family:'Andika', sans-serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:14px; (uncountable, chiefly Britain, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers. :: #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar, #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-b, #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-shell-1 { .page-template-2l-sidebars-php .sidebar-container-left { right: 370px; } -moz-transition: opacity 100,000ms linear; .post.format-image .postdata .comments { float: right; } 6. margin-left: 15px; 1940s Slang and Common Phrases. Translation: } right: auto; These terms were commonly used to describe people, based on certain characteristics or behaviors. .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right { width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; } right: auto; #sidebar-2.flattened, #sidebar-2-b.flattened { Thanks! The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of "Toshers," the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term "tosh," a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper. .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-shell-2 { @media screen and (max-width: 980px) { .mm-row-equal, .mm-original, .mm-mason { text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: distribute; text-justify: distribute; } .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-1c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-2c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-3c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-4c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-5c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-6c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-7c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-8c { width: 100%; } -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; h1.posttitle, h2.posttitle { color:#663300;font-family:'Dancing Script', cursive;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:34px; Discover more behind the meaning of the decade's slang with us. I could still listen to it at the other link by Nervous Norvus written by Jimmy Drake. width: 199px; It was a decade of war and peace: the first half monopolized by worldwide conflict, the second tentatively reaching out towards ways of avoiding a repetition of the first. At the other end of the lexical spectrum, the stress and comradeship of war produced a wealth of slang, much of it of the whistling in the face of adversity type. .post .date span.month { There have been four major sources of the slang: the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.The name Digger slang derives from the cultural stereotype of the Digger in the . "I expect you . } A person given to carousing; a generous person. Many of the words and phrases listed in this article are no longer in current use. @media screen and (max-width: 240px) { 9. Thank you. It was the end of the golden age of swing, while jazz as we know it today was slowly coming to the forefront. #wsidebar-bottom, .page-template-no-sidebars-php #wsidebar-bottom, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #wsidebar-bottom, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #wsidebar-bottom, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #wsidebar-bottom, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #wsidebar-bottom, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #wsidebar-bottom { width: 100%; } .suf-tiles .suf-tile-1c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-2c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-3c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-4c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-5c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-6c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-7c, .suf-tiles .suf-tile-8c { width: 100%; } .page-template-2r-sidebars-php .sidebar-container-left { right: 370px; } Starting as early as 1941, correspondents began reporting and discussing military slang in the pages of American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society. London: Penguin Books. I tried to look for a time stamp reference, but couldnt find one. He is loaded. . ; .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-1c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-2c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-3c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-4c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-5c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-6c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-7c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-8c { width: 100%; } But two items lit up the tilt sign: Moin. #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-1c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-2c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-3c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-4c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-5c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-6c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-7c, #ad-hoc-2 .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } .format-image .permalink { float: left; text-align: left; } } This British slang for pregnant has its root in duff, a type of boiled or steamed pudding, as the BBC explained. .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-1, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-2 {width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;left: auto; right: auto; float: right;} } .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-1c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-2c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-3c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-4c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-5c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-6c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-7c, .suf-mag-categories .suf-tile-8c { width: 100%; } #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-2, #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-2-b, #ie6 .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-shell-2 { right: 275px; .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #widgets-above-header .col-control { width: 1000px }.page-template-2r-sidebars-php #nav .col-control { width: 1000px } Here is the full list, with our favorite terms in bold and images of drunkenness from centuries past interspersed throughout. .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-1, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-1, #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-2, #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-2 {width: 100%;} margin-right: -290px; All wars speed up technological and organizational innovation, which in turn spawns new terminology. width: 290px; A few of the commonly used slang during the 1940s is associated with alcohol or drugs. width: 444px; .format-aside .title-container { padding-left: 0; } 1940s. } #container, .page-template-no-sidebars-php #container, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #container, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #container, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #container, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #container, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #container { padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; } #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-1c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-2c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-3c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-4c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-5c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-6c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-7c, #horizontal-outer-widgets-2 .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } [16][17][18] Examples of this include the old naval terms, "Talking bilge" (nonsense) and "A loose cannon" (an unorthodox person with the potential to cause harm).[19]. background: transparent url(http://www.girlinthejitterbugdress.com/wp-content/uploads/lightened-parchment.jpg) top left repeat; #main-col, .page-template-no-sidebars-php #main-col, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #main-col, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #main-col, .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #main-col, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #main-col, .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #main-col { .meta-pullout, .outer-pullout-container .meta-pullout { margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 5px; left: auto; right: auto; width: 100%; } max-width: 355px; #nav ul ul li, #nav.continuous ul ul li, .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #main-col { width: 725px; } ; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; Are you hep to the jive and would you use any of these words today? width: 205px; She shares her love of this genre through her novels, blog, and short stories. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess [1]: img.left-thumbnail, img.right-thumbnail { float: none; width: auto; } -ms-box-sizing: border-box; #widgets-above-header .col-control { width: 1200px } #nav .col-control { width: 1200px } } border-top: 1px solid #000000; In Britain, this took the form, in 1940, of the blitz (1940): bombed out (1940) families surveyed the smoking ruins of their homes; the bomb-sites (1945) began to appear that would disfigure British cities for decades to come. Hes waring what I think is a zoot suit because he says hes got real nervous pegs with a crazy crease and a solid gold Keychain down to my knees. .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-1c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-2c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-3c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-4c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-5c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-6c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-7c, .suf-mag-excerpts .suf-tile-8c { width: 100%; } } width: 260px; .page-template-1l-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left, .page-template-1r-sidebar-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right { width: 100%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; } .post.format-gallery .postdata .comments { float: right; } .format-chat .tags { float: right; text-align: right; } #header-widgets .suf-widget-1c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-2c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-3c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-4c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-5c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-6c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-7c, #header-widgets .suf-widget-8c { width: 100%; margin: 5px 0; } .page-template-1l1r-sidebar-php #container { padding-left: 222px; padding-right: 222px; } } .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left #sidebar-shell-1, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right #sidebar-shell-2 {width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;left: auto; right: auto; float: left;} #header { min-height: 169px; } Grandma Gear. Any chance youve run across it in an old movie or old literature? padding-left: 225px; .page-template-2l-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left, .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right { width: 100%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; } .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #container { padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 370px; } But what above all marked this war out from all that preceded it was the extent to which it engulfed civilian populations. min-width: 0; Chucklehead = Unintelligent person. Today, slang from the mid-century years rings fairly old-fashioned and silly. width: 168px; right: 200px; .controller-icons.index-overlaid #sliderControl { top: -110px; } } not worth a toss : Phrs. Under high tension; taut . Hence the rash of acronyms (1940) and other initialisms produced in the 1940s (such as BAOR (British Army of the Rhine; 1945), PLUTO (pipeline under the ocean; . Ill try to find another link. Thanks for stopping by John. #cl-warea-id-5 .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-5 .cl-warea-row .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-5.cl-warea-all .cl-widget, #cl-warea-id-5.cl-warea-original .cl-widget { width: 100%; } .page-template-2r-sidebars-php #widgets-above-header { width: 1000px; max-width: 1000px; min-width: 1000px; } Oxford English Dictionary; Oxford University Press 1989; SHOP transitive verb: To shut up (a person), to imprison. I found this definition: the stuff floating in the air or the linty stuff on your sweater. h2.suf-mag-headlines-title { text-align: center; } #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-left, #sidebar-container.sidebar-container-right { width: 49%; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; left: auto; right: auto; } Now that you know some slang words and insults from the 1940s, make it a point to learn slang from some other decades. } He is inebriated. .format-video .tags { float: right; text-align: right; } width: 199px; [1] The nations of the United Kingdom, which are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, all have their own slang words, as does London. [8], In 1698 the New Dictionary of the Canting Crew by B. E. 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