John Dunton, The Ladies Dictionary (1694)
Date
1694
Author
Lexicographer
Book title
The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment For the Fair-Sex: A Work Never attempted before in English
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Dunton
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- proper name
- women
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 1950
sample: Prostitute Doxies are neither Wives, Maids, nor Widdows; they will for good Victuals, or for a very small piece of Money, prostitute their Bodies, and then protest they never did any such thing before, that it was pure necessity that now compell'd them to do what they have done, and the like; whereas the Jades will prove common Hacknies upon every slight occasion: they are dexterous in picking of pockets, which they mind most when they find the mans thoughts most imployed on somewhat else; they are destructive Queans, and oftentimes secret Murtherers of the Infants which are illegitimately begotten of their bodies. (pp. 421-22)
number: 1950
sample: Prostitute Doxies are neither Wives, Maids, nor Widdows; they will for good Victuals, or for a very small piece of Money, prostitute their Bodies, and then protest they never did any such thing before, that it was pure necessity that now compell'd them to do what they have done, and the like; whereas the Jades will prove common Hacknies upon every slight occasion: they are dexterous in picking of pockets, which they mind most when they find the mans thoughts most imployed on somewhat else; they are destructive Queans, and oftentimes secret Murtherers of the Infants which are illegitimately begotten of their bodies. (pp. 421-22)
Wing
H99
Catalog
Kennedy 6193
Facsimiles
H., N. The Ladies Dictionary (1694). Eds. Sylvia Brown and John Considine. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010.
view record
Criticisms
Gotti, Maurizio. The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds: 17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999.
68-75; App. 4, pp. 128-29.
view record
Gotti, Maurizio. "The Canting Component of `The Ladies Dictionary'." Linguistica e filologia 6 (1998): 85-96. view record
Noyes, Gertrude E. "John Dunton's Ladies Dictionary, 1694." Philological Quarterly 21.2 (1942 April): 129-45. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 177-79. view record
Gotti, Maurizio. "The Canting Component of `The Ladies Dictionary'." Linguistica e filologia 6 (1998): 85-96. view record
Noyes, Gertrude E. "John Dunton's Ladies Dictionary, 1694." Philological Quarterly 21.2 (1942 April): 129-45. view record
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. I: 1567-1784. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 177-79. view record
Sources
- Brown, Sylvia, and John Considine. "Grub-Street Compilers at Work: New Sources for John Dunton's Ladies Dictionary (1694)." Notes and Queries 60.4 (December 2013): 554-55. view record
