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Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 171: The lodging-house was an Alsatia for types like these.at Alsatia, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 171: The lodging-house was an Alsatia for types like these. Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 177: In the ‘rhyming slang’ everything was named by something rhyming with it – a ‘hit or miss’ for a kiss, ‘plates of meat’ for feet, etc.at hit (and miss), n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 140: By God [...] dere’s sixpennorth o’ good baccy here!at bacca, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 198: Scotty, a little hairy tramp with a bastard accent.at bastard, adj.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] To bawl – to suck or swallow.at bawl, v.2
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 190: The beak give me seven days.at beak, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 164: The trouble is, the beggars scatter as soon as you turn round with the hat.at beggar, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 165: I’ve even had sixpences off Japs, and blackies, and that.at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] A bly – a burglar’s oxy-acetylene blow-lamp.at bly, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 194: There was some silly casus belli about one saying to the other, ‘Bullshit’.at bullshit!, excl.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 193: She went to his house; that dirty skunk / Had packed his bags and done a bunk.at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 152: Christ! [...] dere’s good food goin’ to waste.at Christ!, excl.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] Clods – coppers.at clod, n.2
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] A clodhopper – a street dancer.at clodhopper, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 154: All foreigners to him were ‘dem bloody dagoes’ [...] responsible for unemployment.at dago, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] A deaner – a shilling.at deener, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 177: ‘Kip’ is Danish. Till quite recently the word ‘doss’ was used in this sense, but it is now quite obsolete.at doss, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 165: You’ll never get a drop off real toffs. It’s shabby sort of blokes you get most off.at drop, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 202: ‘I owe you some fag-ends’ [...] And he put four, sodden, debauched, loathly cigarette ends into my hand.at fag end, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 156: ‘You men sleep ’ere last night?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then f--- off.’.at fuck off!, excl.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 152: It was funk, bred of hunger, that kept him virtuous.at funk, n.2
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] Funkum – lavender or other perfume sold in envelopes.at funkum, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 171: The amounts that one [i.e. a street beggar] can earn by the different ‘gags’ also vary.at gag, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] A gagger – beggar or street performer of any kind.at gagger, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] A gee (or jee – it is pronounced jee) – the accomplice of a cheapjack, who stimulates trade by pretending to buy something.at gee, n.2
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 176: These (omitting the ones that everyone knows) are some of the cant words now used in London: [...] A glimmer – one who watches vacant motor-cars.at glimmer, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 186: Paddy unexpectedly earned another eighteen pence at ‘glimming’.at glimming, n.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 138: Take that in your dirty gob and suck it.at gob, n.1
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 141: Dey makes you say a lot o’ bloody prayers after; but hell! It all passes de time away.at hell!, excl.
Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 131: Want a kip? That’ll be a ’og, guv’nor.at hog, n.
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