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5th edition A. S. Palmer adjective ADVENTURE IN WORDS Adventuring Among Words British and American cant century Cockney derive Dictionary of English Dictionary of Slang earlier earliest Eboracum Eburacon English Dictionary English G. H. Vallins English word Entirely Phoney ERIC PARTRIDGE Ernest Weekley erudite especially essay Etymological Dictionary ETYMOLOGIES OF UNDERWORLD etymologist etymon example fawney fiends folk-etymology forney French German greater trumps Greek human nature ignorance imagination Indo-European Irish Joe Gurr language Late Latin less lexicographers low slang Macmillan means Medieval Latin merely Old Celtic Old English Old Persian one's Oporto origin perhaps person Pferd philologists phoneticians PHONETICS AND SEMANTICS place-name popular etymology port wine posthumous premisses prison Professor published recorded rhyming slang rhyming-slang terms Richard Chenevix Trench Romany Sanskrit scholars sense Simon a tanner sister Standard English stir suesor suffix sunwise tarocchi Tarot theories tiger Tigris true underworld term vair W. W. Skeat Webster's Welsh rabbit