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back-slang (ˈbækˈslæŋ) [f. back adv.] A kind of slang in which every word is pronounced backwards; as ynnep for penny.1860 in Modern Slang 256. 1862 Wheatley Anagrams 141 Back Slang..is formed by the costermongers upon anagrammatical principles; thus look is cool.
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Back slang
Back slang is an English coded language in which the written word is spoken phonemically backwards. Usage
Back slang is thought to have originated in Victorian England. It was used mainly by market sellers, such as butchers and greengrocers, for private conversations behind their customers' backs an...
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83 Old Slang Phrases We Should Bring Back - Mental Floss
Jun 8, 20238. Zib. A zib is a nincompoop. 9. Give Someone the Wind. To give someone the wind is to jilt a suitor. 10. Bags O' Mystery. The 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of ...
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pennif
pennif slang (rare). (ˈpɛnɪf) [Back-slang f. finnip.] = finnip; hence, any bank-note.1862 [see jug n.2 2 b]. 1891 ‘F. W. Carew’ No. 747 xxxv. 416, I gets clean off with the scawfer and 'bout 'er thirty quid in single-pennifs and silver.
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I. H. N. Evans
British North Borneo" The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 43 (July – December 1913), 422–479
1917 "Malay back-slang
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neves
neves Back-slang. (ˈnɛvɪs) Also nevis. [Reversed form of ‘seven’.] Seven years' hard labour.1901 Farmer & Henley Slang V. 31/2 Nevis,..Seven... Nevis-stretch = seven year's hard. 1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights 22 Your f―ing lucky, I'm doing a bleeding neves.
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back-
back- in comb. is used in many relations, substantive, adjective, and adverbial (rarely verbal), often difficult to separate, and in various senses. In some of these the combination is very loose, the use of the hyphen being almost optional. This is especially the case, when back is capable of being...
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List of police-related slang terms
Slops "Back-slang" formation from "police" spelled backwards, "ecilop" = "slop". Common before World War II in the UK. Rare today.
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slop
▪ I. slop, n.1 (slɒp) Also 4–7 sloppe, 4, 6 slope, 7 slopp. [Of obscure history. Sense 2 corresponds to MDu. slop, OIcel. sloppr, and appears earlier in the OE. compound oferslop (MDu. overslop, OIcel. yfirsloppr): see overslop. The relation of the other senses to this is not clear.] † 1. A charmed ...
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cockney
▪ I. cockney, n. (a.) (ˈkɒknɪ) Forms: 4–5 cokenay, cokeney, (also kok-), 5–6 coknay(e, 6 cokney, cocknaye, -naie, 6–7 cockeney, cockny(e, -nie, 7 kockney, 6– cockney. [ME. coken-ey, -ay, app. = coken of cocks + ey, ay (OE. æᵹ) egg; lit. ‘cocks' egg’: see note after the adj.] A. n. † 1. An egg: the e...
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أوكي
كذلك تُستخدم كعلامة خطاب متعددة الاستخدامات أو عنصر توجيه خلفي (back-channeling)، يمكن أيضًا استخدامها بنبرة صوت مناسبة لإظهار الشك أو لطلب التأكيد («موافق The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, 708.
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الجوائز الأميركية للكتاب
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Jay Wright, Lifetime Achievement
2007
Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret
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