The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Underworld (Wordsworth Reference) - Softcover

Book 2 of 5: Routledge Revivals: The Selected Works of Eric Partridge

Partridge, Eric

 
9781853263613: The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Underworld (Wordsworth Reference)

Synopsis

This work looks at the area defined as "cant". It includes the vocabulary of "crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars, tramps, convicts and the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic and spivs", gathered from many countries and from obscure sources.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781138904460: A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American (Routledge Revivals: The Selected Works of Eric Partridge)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1138904465 ISBN 13:  9781138904460
Publisher: Routledge, 2015
Hardcover