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Passing English of the Victorian era : a dictionary of heterodox English, slang, and phrase / by J. Redding Ware.

Slang, a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of Bon-Ton, and the varieties of life : forming the completest and most authentic Lexicon Balatronicum hitherto offered to the notice of the sporting world, for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations, and rum-ones, with examples, proofs, and monitory precepts, useful and proper for novices, flats, and yokels / by Jon Bee.

The slang dictionary : etymological, historical, and anecdotal / [compiled by John Camden Hotten].

The slang dictionary : or, the vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society : many with their etymology and a few with their history traced / [compiled by J.C. Hotten]

Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux / Written by himself ...

A thesaurus of Slang / compiled and arranged by Howard N. Rose.

Argot and slang ; a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris / by A. Barnére... With a frontispiece drawn by Godefroy Durand.

Musa pedestris : Three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes (1536-1896) / collected and annotated by John S. Farmer.

Code names dictionary : a guide to code names, slang, nicknames, journalese, and similar terms: aviation, rockets and missiles, military, aerospace, meteorology, atomic energy, communications, and others / Edited by Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr. [and] Robert C. Thomas. Introd. by Eric Partridge. Contributing editors: J.A. Skiera [and others].

Hobson-Jobson: : being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms; etymological, historical, geographical, and discursive. / By Col. Henry Yule ... and the late Arthur Coke Burnell ...

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words : used at the present day in the streets of London, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Houses of Parliament, the Dens of St. Giles, and the Palaces of St. James : preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language from the time of Henry VIII, shewing its connection with the Gipsey tongue : with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers / by a London antiquary.

Vocabulary of Soviet society and culture : a selected guide to Russian words, idioms, and expressions of the post-Stalin era, 1953-1991 / Irina H. Corten.

The American slangist / by Sherman Malcolm.

The psychology of unconventional language / by Frank K. Sechrist.

Contributions towards a glossary of the Glynne language, by a student ... To which is added The doubting Dowager; or, A tale of a house. An epic poem in one canto.

Grose's classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue / revised and corrected, with addition of numerous slang phrases collected from tried authorities, by Pierce Egan...

Blackguardiana: or, A dictionary of rogues ... Illustrated with eighteen portraits of the most remarkable professors in every species of villainy. Interspersed with many curious anecdotes, cant terms, flash songs, &c., the whole intended to put society on their guard against depredators; and was picked up by an inhabitant of St. James's, who was a spectator of a grand scuffle, on a Birth-day night. Copied for the inspection of the curious; and the original ready to be returned (on describing the binding, &c.) to the loser.

The American slang dictionary, by James Maitland. Embodying all American and English slang phrases in current use, with their derivation and philology.