>I totter
> In tatters
> totty headed
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> Ps my 1811 dictionary mentions 'totty headed'
Well, what do you expect from something allegedly edited by the Whips of St
Giles (or whomever)? -- the Lexicon Balatronicum, or whatever it was called.
Technically, it's the fourth edition of Francis Grose's _Dictionary of the
Vulgar Tongue_ (the fifth and last "official" re-edition, as it's still
flowing in virtually unchanged as late as Partridge, was by Pierce Egan in
1823). Though sometimes scorned as a piece of hackwork, the 1811 edition is
actually interesting to use to trace cant which first appears between 1793
and 1811.
What you really *didn't want to know.
R.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/dcvgr10.txt for the one
Patrick is referring to.
Better to go to Internet Archives and search for _ Farmer dictionary _ under
Texts, and you get all the volumes of _Slang and Its Analogues_.
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