

Behold some really ‘rad’ vintage American slang … Penlighten brings you a definitive list of American slang terms and phrases, all for your amusement and pleasure. I's the first English dictionary of slang.Well, ‘selfie’ has indeed made it to the hallowed pages of the Oxford Dictionary, which is a definite indication of the changing times. 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 B.Grose's classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue, revised by Pierce Egan (1823).Lexicon balatronicum, a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence (1811) + online dictionary.A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue by Francis Grose (1785).Londinismen, slang und cant: London slang, English-German dictionary, by Heinrich Baumann (1887).Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase, by James Redding Ware (1909).The slang dictionary, etymological, historical and anecdotal, by John Camden Hotten (1913).Slang and its analogues, past and present, A dictionary historical and comparative of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years, by John Farmer & William Henley (1890)Ī-B - C-Fi - Fl-H - I-M - N-Ra - Re-St - St-Z.Dictionary of slang and colloquial English by John Farmer & William Henley (1905).French slang: colloquial Canadian French, with translation into English.NewZealandSlang: New Zeeland slang dictionary.New Zealand global: New Zeeland slang dictionary.IrishSlang: Irish English slang dictionary.Urban Dictionary: collaborative slang dictionary.
