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Vocabulary of the Flash Language

Slang used by convicts deported to Australia in the early 1800s

 

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DAB . a bed. DAB IT UP: to dab it up with a woman, is to agree to cohabit with her.
DANCERS . stairs.
DANNA . human, or other excrement.
DANNA-DRAG . commonly pronounced dunnick-drag. See KNAP A JACOB, etc.
DARBIES . fetters.
DARKY . night.
DARKY . a dark lanthorn.
DEATH-HUNTER . an undertaker.
DICKY, or DICK IN THE GREEN . very bad or paltry; any thing of an inferior quality, is said to be a dicky concern.
DIMMOCK . money.
 
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Hoo : interj. See Ho.; interj. Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.
 
A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language by James Hardy Vaux, 1819
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