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James Hardy Vaux's 1819 dictionary of criminal slang and other impolite terms as used by the convicts of the British colonies of Australia with additional true stories, remarkable facts and illustrations / Simon Barnard.

James Hardy Vaux's 1819 dictionary of criminal slang and other impolite terms as used by the convicts of the British colonies of Australia with additional true stories, remarkable facts and illustrations / Simon Barnard.
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ISBN 9781925773897 (hardback)
Shelf Location 427.994/BAR
Author Barnard, Simon
Title James Hardy Vaux's 1819 dictionary of criminal slang and other impolite terms as used by the convicts of the British colonies of Australia with additional true stories, remarkable facts and illustrations / Simon Barnard.
Alternate Titles 1819 dictionary of criminal slang and other impolite terms as used by the convicts of the British colonies of Australia with additional true stories, remarkable facts and illustrations.
Dictionary of criminal slang and other impolite terms as used by the convicts of the British colonies of Australia with additional true stories, remarkable facts and illustrations
Publication Details Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019.
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019.
Format viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes indexes.
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea- a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in 1819, he compiled what was to be Australia's first published dictionary. With words such as fence (a receiver of stolen goods), flesh-bag (a shirt), flip (to shoot); galloot (a soldier), kid (a child thief), knuckle (to pickpocket), ramp (to rob out in the open), ruffles (handcuffs), screw (a skeleton key), serve (to rob), stamps (shoes) and wrinkle (a lie), Vaux's dictionary is a fascinating account of convict language, including the origins and early usage of several words that have evolved to become part of Australian English today. And Simon Barnard's illustrations and supporting accounts of individual convicts and their criminal antics complements this lively picture of Australia's convict history.
Subject English language -- Australia -- Slang -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Australianisms -- Dictionaries
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