a smattering of cant language

your lost dirty word of the day

This book, which I found a few months ago in an open-air flea market in Amsterdam, has proved a bottomless source of amusement. Like it says on the the cover it’s a dictionary of criminal and near-criminal words — old-fashioned English street slang, insults, slurs and brilliantly specific descriptions of weird/aberrant/illegal behaviour. It’s out of pri…