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Year:
1859
Short description:
George Matsell's "Vocabulum"
Medium description:
subtitled 'The Rogue's Lexicon'
Tags:
history of English
in the USA
Slang
Links:
was a source for
First instalment of "A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles" (the OED)
according to
Coleman, Julie, 2004
was sourced from
'The Lexicon Balatronicum'
according to
Coleman, Julie, 2004
Coleman, Julie (2004). A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries Volume II 1785-1858. New York: Oxford University Press [p.90]