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Can’t bite the cull now, wait for darkmans, when he’s clear.
Keep the secret speech of the streets in your back pocket! Add the clandestine tongue of thieves and swindlers to your game with the Thieves’ Cant Dictionary from Fat Goblin Games! With over 200 entries, the Thieves’ Cant Dictionary is your linguistic passport to a life of larceny and duplicity, all safely concealed in codewords and double-speak. Get yours now, before the Harman slaps the darbies on you!
The dictionary is world- and system-agnostic, the better to aid schemers and swindlers, wherever they gather.
How does this compare to any of the real world, collected works of Francis Grose - especially The Vulgar Tongue - Buckish slang and Pickpocket Eloquence or Lobcocks and Fartleberries?
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How does this compare to any of the real world, collected works of Francis Grose - especially The Vulgar Tongue - Buckish slang and Pickpocket Eloquence or Lobcocks and Fartleberries?
It's different in a few ways. Grose' book dates to 1785 and focuses on common speech. This book draws from some older sources (about 200 years older) and is focused on Criminal Cant - how swindlers described themselves and their operations - rather than just the common phrases and euphemisms of the age.
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While attempting to expand my answer, I appear to have run over my allotted time to do so.
I haven't read Grose's book, but judging by its description, Grose focuses on general street slang. So, where Grose's book will include "belly cheat" as a nickname for an apron (which also appeared in several of my own sources), The TC Dictionary will give you terms like "Pincher," which was a swindler who used sleight of hand to cheat moneylenders.
Additionally, our dictionary, like every Fat Goblin product, is graced with the amazing artwork of the Fattest Goblin himself, Mssr. Rick Hershey. Take a look and I think you'll agree that it's the prettiest lexicon of larceny you're ever likely to find!
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Thanks for the answers Richard. Having an actual copy of Vulgar Tongue, I can attest that the majority of it deals with lowlife terms for criminals, criminal activities, victims, criminals' and victims' attire, derogatory nicknames for marks, nobs and shopkeepers and purveyors of that moast detestable calling The Law.
Unfortunately it is NOT illustrated by Master Hershey. ;)