Auk's dimber tip to all flash coves

Gwern Branwen · 25 Jul 2009, 19:04 · from 2009-July.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:04:43 -0400
Subject: (urth) Auk's dimber tip to all flash coves
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM, James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nathan Bailey's "Canting Dictionary" (1737) contains all three of those
> words:
> http://www.fromoldbooks.org/NathanBailey-CantingDictionary/transcription.html

That's a pretty good dictionary indeed. But I'm starting to think
there may be no one dictionary Wolfe used - that one doesn't include
'hanger', 'queer' (as in 'queer it'), 'coypun', 'hacking',
'skittlepin', 'scavy', 'coaming', 'bucky', 'hornboy' etc. at least a
few of which I'm sure are thieves' cant in the Long Sun.

-- 
gwern

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