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In this text version of “Argot and Slang”: words in italics are marked with _underscores_, words in small capitals are shown in UPPER CASE.
In the body of the dictionary, the words being defined, originally printed in bold, are shown in UPPER CASE, and the authors of quotations, originally printed in small capitals, are marked with equals signs and shown in =UPPER CASE=.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the poem or extract in which they occur.
Variant spelling and use of accents, inconsistent hyphenation and capitalization are retained, as are English words spelt in the French manner. There are many words with irregular placing of the apostrophe in possessive plurals (e.g. womens', Fishermens') these have not been changed.
The changes that have been made are listed at the end of the book.
CANT WORDS, QUAINT EXPRESSIONS, SLANG TERMS AND FLASH PHRASES
USED IN THE HIGH AND LOW LIFE OF OLD AND NEW PARIS
WHITTAKER AND CO., WHITE HART STREET PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1889