First English Dictionary of Slang 1699 - Gent B. E.
It's a shame that so many very apt words fall out of common use over time, like "blobber-lippd," which means having lips that are very thick, hanging down, or turning over; and "chounter", which is to…
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It's a shame that so many very apt words fall out of common use over time, like "blobber-lippd," which means having lips that are very thick, hanging down, or turning over; and "chounter", which is to talk pertly, and sometimes angrily. Both words can be found in The First English Dictionary of Slang, originally published in 1699 as A New Dictionary of Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew by B. E. Gentleman. Though a number of early texts, beginning in the sixteenth century, codified forms of cant--the slang language of the criminal underworld--in word lists which appeared as appendices or parts of larger volumes, the dictionary of 1699 was the first work dedicated to slang words and their meanings. It aimed to educate the more polite classes in the language and, consequently, the methods of thieves and vagabonds, protecting the innocent from cant speakers and