thieves' cant

The origin of the word is uncertain, although it appears to be connected with Thieves' cant.

But he said somewhat sternly: "You use too much thieves' cant for my taste!"

Another suggestion is that it may have been used by criminals (see thieves' cant) to confuse the police.

Kuiper suggested that the differences might also be argot, such as a thieves' cant.

She spoke in Thieves' Cant, which Olive had no trouble translating.

They can translate thieves' cant and old recordings of dolphin and whale song.

His dictionary also includes thieves' cant.

About this time he wrote a number of ballades in Jargon, or Thieves' Cant.

Quevedo's novel gives a considerable amount of information about Germanía, or Thieves' cant.

Tonight, before His Eminence came, you used a great deal of thieves' cant, as Auk does.

The thieves' cant of seventeenth-century London is one example of such an argot, as it is called.

First attested in 1785, the word's origin is unclear, though one suggestion is that it was thieves' cant for lightning.

The thieves' cant was a feature of popular pamphlets and plays particularly between 1590 and 1615, but continued to feature in literature through the 18th century.

Some words from thieves' cant continued to be used into the twentieth century combined with slang words from eighteenth century London.

For Auk believed, despite his hard looks and thieves' cant; and unlike many superficially better men, his faith was more than superstition.

The document suggests a complete separation between Thieves' Cant, and the variant of English Romani of the early 17th century.

In 1859 he was the author of Vocabulum, or, The rogue's lexicon: compiled from the most authentic sources, a dictionary of American thieves' cant.

However, the word Bargoens usually refers to the thieves' cant spoken in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

The Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a 17th-century slang dictionary, written in 1673 by Richard Head, that looked to define thieves' cant.

Priests of Syrul have developed a "doublespeak" language similar to thieves' cant that allows them to have secret conversations in the open while seeming to talk about something else entirely.

One prominent saurial, Dragonbait, not only understands Common, but has learned the sign language known as "thieves' cant", allowing him to converse with non-saurials fluent in the cant.