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Year:
1567
Short description:
Thomas Harman's "Caveat or Warening for Commen Cursetors"
Medium description:
[Piercy states 1566 and "A Caveat or Warning for Commen Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds"]
Tags:
history of English
Slang
Coleman, Julie (2004). A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries Volume II 1785-1858. New York: Oxford University Press [p.6]
Piercy, Joseph (2012). The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. London: Michael O'Mara Books Limited [p.169]