This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... Australian and Bush Slang. Alderman Lushington, intoxicating drink. Beer or liquor of any kind is lush; to lush is to drink. Speaking of a person who is drunk, the "flash" fraternity say, "Alderman Lushington is concerned," or simply "He has been voting for the alderman." A lush-crib, or lush-ken, is a public-house. -- From Vaux's Memoirs. The term is imported into Australia by convicts. Anty-up, a game of ccirds. As they ride up, a savage-looking half-bred bull dog yelps hoarsely, and two or three men creep out from underneath the tarpaulin of the nearest dray, where they have been playing anty-up (a favourite game with cards) for tobacco. John recognises a teamster who has been employed by himself. -- D. Sladen. From ante, the stake with which the dealer at poker commences each hand before dealing the cards; he puts up a "chip" in front of him, hence the name. Make good tIir attte; the dealer, after looking at his hand, must either go out of the game and forfeit his ante, or must make it good by putting up a sum equal to it, so as to make his stake the same as that of the other players. Raising the a tile: any one at the time of "chipping in" to fill his hand may raise the ante, and the other players must then in turn make their stakes equal to the maximum so raised, or else must "run" and abandon what they have already staked. Artesian, colonial beer. People in Gippsland, Victoria, use artesian just as Tasmanians use easeade, in the sense of "beer," because the one is manufactured from the celebrated artesian well at Sale, Gippsland, and the other from the easeade water. Leutzner, Colonial English. I At that, meaning something in addition to, an intensive. Said to have originated in Pennsylvania, America, and to be a translation of...

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The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.