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Thieves' cant (also known as thieves' argot, rogues' cant, or peddler's French) is a cant, cryptolect, or argot which was formerly used by thieves, beggars...12 KB (1,533 words) - 11:00, 30 April 2024- A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. It may also be called a cryptolect, argot,...20 KB (2,422 words) - 08:42, 18 February 2024
- STREET. Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wrong or different to our wish." Although often...6 KB (820 words) - 02:48, 12 May 2024
women speak a little of the lingua called Chinese English, or, in the cant phrase, pigeon [sic]." Lambert, James. 2018. A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature...49 KB (5,312 words) - 17:06, 14 April 2024- Slang dictionary (redirect from The Canting Academy)Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a 17th-century slang dictionary, written in 1673 by Richard Head, that looked to define thieves' cant....5 KB (562 words) - 02:49, 29 April 2023
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten in 1859...4 KB (414 words) - 19:22, 26 March 2024- Out of left field (category English phrases)Safire's Political Dictionary, columnist William Safire writes that the phrase "out of left field" means "out of the ordinary, out of touch, far out."...8 KB (941 words) - 13:07, 7 February 2024
- fiction), films and television, commercial branding, literature, jargon, cant, linguistics, the visual arts, and popular culture.[citation needed] Examples...23 KB (2,730 words) - 08:12, 15 May 2024
Midrash (redirect from Yalḳ., Cant.)Midrash (/ˈmɪdrɑːʃ/; Hebrew: מִדְרָשׁ; pl. מִדְרָשִׁים midrashim or מִדְרָשׁוֹת midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode...36 KB (4,201 words) - 22:03, 24 April 2024- Obfuscation (category English phrases)while trying to confuse and prevent Jim Hacker from taking charge. Black box Cant (language) Code word (figure of speech) Doublespeak Fallacy of quoting out...7 KB (825 words) - 18:12, 18 March 2024
- Preaching." In 1699, the phrase appeared in the New Dictionary of the Canting Crew defined as "a derisory Term for Sweat". The phrase had existed for sometime...2 KB (212 words) - 02:36, 29 January 2024
the shorter phrase was expressly conveyed in a literary work: A sneering infidel, who uses Scripture for a jest-book, raves about "cant," and retails...12 KB (1,491 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2024
Shooting (redirect from Cant (shooting))Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of...18 KB (2,044 words) - 00:16, 14 April 2024
Rhyming slang (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)a few rhymes.: 3 John Camden Hotten's 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words likewise states that it originated in the 1840s ("about...36 KB (4,029 words) - 00:05, 24 March 2024
modern of the canting crew, in its several tribes, of gypsies, beggers, thieves, cheats, &c. with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches...2 KB (223 words) - 12:19, 30 April 2024- You can't have your cake and eat it (redirect from You cant have your cake)have more than is reasonable. The proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases "you can't have it both ways" and "you can't have the best of both worlds...37 KB (4,288 words) - 22:27, 30 April 2024
- "hype". Words and phrases from popular Hollywood films and television series frequently become slang. One early slang-like code, Thieves' cant, was first used...27 KB (3,186 words) - 12:33, 6 May 2024
- Swardspeak (category Cant languages)Swardspeak (also known as gayspeak or "gay lingo") is an argot or cant slang derived from Taglish (Tagalog-English code-switching) and used by a number...22 KB (1,114 words) - 17:10, 20 April 2024
Dutch angle (redirect from Canted angle)filmmaking and photography, the Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot which involves setting...11 KB (1,115 words) - 11:05, 18 March 2024
Slang, Jargon & Cant. Vol. 1. Ballantyne Press. p. 21. Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1897). A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant. Vol. 2. G. Bell...5 KB (520 words) - 11:37, 25 March 2024
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 5 Cant 19049501911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 5 — Cant CANT. (1) (Possibly through the Fr. from Lat. cantos
- the important subject of phrasing is so often treated carelessly that its doctrines seem to be little better than a sort of cant It may seem strange to
- Medieval literature. It became a household word for empty hypocritical talk or cant in the first decade of the 20th century thanks to its regular use by the