English Dictionaries
E-ASH The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795
E-BAI An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey, 1737
E-BAI2 Dictionarium Britannicum, Nathan Bailey, G.Gordon, P. Miller, T. Lediard, 1736
E-BAR A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. James Barclay, 1848
E-BLO Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words....., Thomas Blount, 1656, 1707
E-BOA A Popular and Complete English Dictionary. Rev. John Boag, 1848
E-BOL An Explanatory and Phonographic Dictionary of the English Language, William Bolles, 1853
E-BOU Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language. Jonathan Boucher, 1832
E-BRO The Union Dictionary, Thomas Browne, 1810
E-BRO2 The English Expositor, R. Browne, 1719
E-BUY New and Complete Dictionary of Terms of Art, Egbert Buys, 1768
E-CEN The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
E-CHA Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. Thomas Davidson, 1903
E-CLA A New and Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, Hyde Clarke, 1872
E-COC The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram, 1647
E-COC2 Cocker's English Dictionary, Edward Cocker, 1724
E-COL An English Dictionary, Elisha Coles, 1717
E-COL2 Oldest Words in the English Language, Herbert Coleridge, 1862
E-CRA A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, John Craig, 1849
E-DAV A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 (also under E-LEW)
E-DYC A New General English Dictionary, Thomas Dyche, William Pardon, 1760
E-DYC2 A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1880
E-FAL The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, 1885
E-FOS A Shakespeare Word-Book, John Foster, 1908
E-FUN A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908
E-HAL A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855
E-HUN The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888; and The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1895
E-IMP The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. John Ogilvie, 1847-1850
E-JAM A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary, or, Alphabetical Explanation of Technical Terms, Charles James, 1802
E-JOH A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson, 1827
E-JOH2 Johnson's and Walker's English Dictionaries Combined, Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph E. Worcester
E-KER Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum or, A General English Dictionary, John Kersey, 1708
E-KNO A Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, James Knowles, 1835
E-LEA Lean's Collectanea, Vincent Stuckey Lean, 1903
E-LEN Colonial English, A Glossary of Australian Anglo-Indian, Pidgin English, West Indian, and South African Words, Edited by Karl Lentzner, 1891
E-LES Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language, James Leslie, 1806
E-LEW A Supplementary English Glossary, T. Lewis, O. Davies, 1881
E-MAC Lost Beauties of the English Language, Charles Mackay, 1874
E-MAR A Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language, Francis Andrew March, 1902
E-MAR2 Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Benjamin Martin, 1749
E-MAS A Supplement to Johnson's English Dictionary, George Mason, 1801
E-MAU The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference, Samuel Maunder, 1840
E-MAY A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, A.L. Mayhew, 1914
E-MAY2 A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from AD 1150 to 1580, Rev. A. L. Mayhew, Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1888
E-MOR Specimens of Early English, Richard Morris, 1867
E-MOR2 Austral English, Edward Ellis Morris, 1898
E-MOR3 A General Dictionary of Commerce, Trade, and Manufactures, Thomas Mortimer, 1810
E-NAR A Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Illusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc....., Robert Nares, 1888
E-NED A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
E-ONI A Shakespeare Glossary, C.T. Onions, 1911
E-PHI The New World of Words or Universal English Dictionary, Edward Phillips, 1720
E-PHI2 The New World of Words or A General English Dictionary, Edward Phillips, 1671
E-RAY A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, John Ray 1818
E-RAY2 A Collection of English Words not Usually Used, John Ray 1674
E-RIC A New Dictionary of the English Language, Charles Richardson, 1836-55
E-RID Riders Dictionarie, By John Rider, Edited by Francis Holyoke, 1606
E-SHE A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas Sheridan, 1790, 1797
E-SHI Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
E-SID The Shakespearian Referee, J.H. Siddons, 1886
E-SKE A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914
E-SMI Glossary of Terms and Phrases, Rev. H. Percy Smith, 1883
E-SMY The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, William Smyth, 1867
E-STA The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, C.A.M. Fennell, 1892
E-STR A Middle English Dictionary, Francis Henry Stratmann, Henry Bradley, 1891
E-SVA Intensifying Similes in English, T. Hilding Svartengren, 1918
E-TOO A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words, William Toone, 1832
E-WEB Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895
E-WHE Dictionary of Reduplicated Words, Henry B. Wheatley, 1866
E-WRI Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright, 1880, 1886
(The Century Dictionary "was a great expansion of the smaller Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, which in turn had been based on the 1841 edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary" - from Wiki.)
English Dialect Dictionaries
ED-ADD A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield, Sidney Oldall Addy, 1888
ED-AKE A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Wiltshire, John Yonge Akerman, 1842
ED-ATK A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, Rev. J.C. Atkinson, 1868
ED-BAK Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
ED-BAM Dialect of South Lancashire, Samuel Bamford, 1850
ED-BAN A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, William Stott Banks, 1865
ED-BAR A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, William Barnes, 1886
ED-BLA Dialect Glossary of North Riding of Yorkshire, Richard Blakeborough, 1912
ED-BRI The Beauties of Wiltshire, John Britton, 1825
ED-BRO A Glossary of North Country Words, John Trotter Brockett, 1825
ED-BRO2 Provincial Words and Expressions Current in Lincolnshire, J. Ellett Brogden, 1866
ED-CAR The Dialect of Craven in the West-Riding of the County of York, William Carr, 1828
ED-CHA A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words, Mrs. Chamberlain, 1882
ED-CHA2 A Glossary of the Essex Dialect, Richard Stephen Charnock, 1880
ED-CHO The Dialect of Hartland, Devonshire, R. Pearse Chope, 1891
ED-COL A Glossary of Words Used in South-West Lincolnshire, Robert Eden George Cole, 1886
ED-COO A Glossary of the Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex, William Durrant Cooper, 1853
ED-COP A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases, Rev. William H. Cope, 1883
ED-COU Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall, Miss M.A. Courtney, Thomas Q. Couch, 1880
ED-CUN A Glossary of Rochdale-with-Rossendale Words and Phrases, Henry Cunliffe, 1886
ED-DAR The Folk-Speech of South Cheshire, Thomas Darlington, 1887
ED-DAR2 A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire, George Dartnell, 1893
ED-DIC A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland, William Dickinson, 1878
ED-DIN A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Teesdale in the County of Durham, Frederick P. Dinsdale, 1849
ED-EAS A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, Rev. Alfred Easther, 1883
ED-EDD The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
ED-ELL Words in the Dialect of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and North Lancashire, which are Related to the Icelandic, Rev. T. Ellwood, 1895
ED-ELW The West Somerset Word-Book, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, 1886
ED-EVA Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, Arthur Evans, 1881
ED-FER The Dialect of Cumberland, Robert Ferguson, 1873
ED-FOR The Vocabulary of East Anglia, Robert Forby, 1830
ED-GEP A Contribution to an Essex Dialect Dictionary, Edward Gepp, 1920
ED-GOW A Glossary of Surrey Words, Granville Leveson Gower, 1893
ED-GRO A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England, Francis Grose, 1839
ED-HAR A Glossary of Words used in the County of Salop, Rev. CharlesHenry Hartshorne, 1841
ED-HAR2 A Glossary of Words used in Swaledale, Yorkshire, Captain John Harland, 1873
ED-HAV Herefordshire Words and Phrases, Francis T. Havergal, 1887
ED-HES A Glossary of Words used in the County of Northumberland and on The Tyneside, Rd. Oliver Heslop, 1893-
1894
ED-HEW The Peasant Speech of Devon, Sarah Hewett, 1892
ED-HOL A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Robert Holland, 1886
ED-HOL2 A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, William Holloway, 1839
ED-HUN The Hallamshire Glossary, Rev. Joseph Hunter, 1829
ED-HUN2 A Glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) Dialect, Rev. Richard Webster Huntley, 1868
ED-JAC Shropshire Word-Book, Georgina E. Jackson, 1879
ED-JAG Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words, Fred W.P. Jago, 1882
ED-JEN The Dialect of the West of England particularly Somersetshire, James Jennings, 1869
ED-KIR A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as used in Cumberland and Westmoreland, B. Kirkby, 1898
ED-LAW The Nation in the Parish, or, Records of Upton-on-Severn....and a Glossary...by Robert Lawson, 1884
ED-LEI A Glossary of Words used in the Dialect of Cheshire, Lieut.-Col. Egerton Leigh, 1877
ED-LEW A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Herefordshire, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 1839
ED-LON A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Berkshire, J.G. Bell London, 1852
ED-LON2 A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, W.H. Long, 1886
ED-LOW A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, Major B. Lowsley, 1888
ED-MOO Suffolk Words and Phrases, Edward Moor, 1823
ED-MOR Yorkshire Folk-Talk, Rev. M. C. F. Morris, 1892
ED-MOR2 A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness, (North Lancashire), J. P. Morris, 1869
ED-NAL Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, John Greaves Nall 1866
ED-NIC The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, John Nicholson, 1889
ED-NOD A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, John H. Nodal, George Milner, 1875
ED-NOR A Warwickshire Word-Book, G.F. Northall, 1896
ED-PAL Words and Phrases Used at Hetton-Le-Hole (Durham), Rev. F. M. T. Palgrave, 1896
ED-PAL2 A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, to which is added a Glossary, J.F. Palmer, 1837
ED-PAR A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect, W.D. Parish, 1888
ED-PAR2 Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, Rev. W.D. Parish, 1875
ED-PAT A Glossary of Words in use in the Counties of Antrim and Down, W. Patterson, 1880
ED-PEA Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Edward Peacock, 1875
ED-POO An Attempt Towards a Glossary of the Archaic and Provincial Words of the County of Stafford, Charles Henry Poole, 1880
ED-PRE A Supplement to the Glossary of the Dialect of Cumberland, E. W. Prevost, 1905
ED-RAY A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, To Which is Added a Collection of English Words, John Ray, 1737
ED-ROB A Glossary of Dialect and Archaic Words used in the County of Gloucester, J.D. Robertson, 1890
ED-ROB2 The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, C. Clough Robinson, 1862
ED-ROB3 A Glossary of Words pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, C. Clough Robinson, 1876
ED-ROB4 A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases, Francis Kildale Robinson, 1855
ED-ROB5 A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby, Edited by F. K. Robinson
ED-ROS A Glossary of Words used in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Frederick Ross, Richard Stead, Thomas Holderness, 1877
ED-RYE A Glossary of Words used in East Anglia, Walter Rye, 1895
ED-SAL A Glossary of Words and Phrases used in S. E. Worcestershire, Jesse Salisbury, 1893
ED-STE The Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire, Thomas Sternberg, 1851
ED-THO Randigal Rhymes and A Glossary of Cornish Words, Joseph Thomas, 1895
ED-WIL An Attempt at a Glossary of Some Words used in Cheshire, Roger Wilbraham, 1826
Scottish Dictionaries
SC-ANG A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect, James Stout Angus, 1914
SC-BRO A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Captain Thomas Brown, 1845
SC-EDM An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect, Thos. Edmondston, 1866
SC-GRE The Dialect of Banffshire, with a Glossary of Words not in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, Rev. Walter Gregor, 1866
SC-JAM Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1867 and, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, 1879-1887
SC-MAC A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, Charles Mackay, 1888
SC-MAC2 The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, John Mactaggart, 1876
SC-MAC3 The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe, and more especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, Charles Mackay, 1877
SC-PIC A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Ebenezer Picken, 1818
SC-WAR A Scots Dialect Dictionary, Alexander Warrack, 1911
American Dialect/Slang Dictionaries
AD-BAR Dictionary of Americanisms, A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the United States, John Russell Bartlett, 1860
AD-CLA A New Dictionary of Americanisms, Sylva Clapin, 189?
AD-DAR Dictionary of American Regional English (online)
AD-DIA Dialect Notes, A Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1905-1912
AD-FAR Americanisms Old and New, John S. Farmer, 1889
AD-GRE Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech, B.W. Green, 1912
AD-KAN Kansas University Quarterly, 1893
AD-MAI The American Slang Dictionary, James Maitland, 1891
AD-RUS Current Americanisms: a Dictionary of Words and Phrases in CommonUse, T. Baron Russell, 1893
AD-THO An American Glossary, Richard H. Thornton, 1912
Slang Dictionaries
SL-ANG The Vulgar Tongue: A Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases. Ducange Anglicus, 1859
SL-BAD Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, or Bon-ton...., John Badcock, 1823
SL-BAR A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, Albert Barrere, 1890
SL-FAR Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902
SL-FAR2 A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1921
SL-GEN A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, B.E. (Gent), 1899
(Note: the author of this book is only known by the initials B.E.)
SL-GRO Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823
SL-HEA The English Rogue: Described, in the life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, 1665
SL-HOT The Slang Dictionary, John Camden Hotten, 1913
SL-LEN Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia, and of Some Mixed Languages, Dr. Karl Lentzner, 1892
SL-LIG Historical Dictionary of American Slang, J.E. Lighter, Volumes I & II
SL-MAT Vocabulum: Or, The Rogue's Lexicon, George Washington Matsell, 1859
SL-PAR Slang Today and Yesterday, Eric Partridge, 1933
SL-WAR Passing English of the Victorian Era, James Redding Ware, 1909
Phrase Dictionaries
PH-BRE Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
PH-DIX Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, James Main Dixon, 1891
PH-HYA A Dictionary of English Phrases, Albert M. Hyamson, 1922
Additional Sources:
• American English, Gilbert M. Tucker, 1921
• Americanisms: The English of the New World, M.Schele de Vere, 1872
• American Thesaurus of Slang, A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech, Lester V. Berry and Melvin Van den Bark, 1942
• A-Z of Irish Crime, The: A Guide to Criminal Slang, Alan Sherry, 2007
• Big Book of Being Rude, The, Jonathon Green, 2001
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Tony Thorn, 1991
• BritSlang: An Uncensored A-Z of the Peoples' Language, Ray Puxley, 2004
• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2000 & 2006
• Chambers Dictionary, The, 12th Edition, 2011
• Chambers Slang Dictionary, Jonathon Green, 2008
• Collins English Dictionary, Twelfth Edition, 2014
• Concise New Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, 2008
• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), online (http://www.daredictionary.com/)
• Dictionary of American Slang, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman, 2010
• Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, Harry Orsman, 2003
• Dictionary of Naval Slang, Compiled from Various Sources
http://www.goatlocker.org/resources/nav/navyslang.pdf
• Dictionary of Playground Slang, Chris Lewis, 2003
• Dictionary of Service Slang, Park Kendall, 1944
• Dictionary of Sexual Slang, Alan Richter, 1993
• Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 8th Edition, Paul Beale, 2002
• Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL), online (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/)
• Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia, Dr. Karl Lentzer, 1892
• Dictionary of the Underworld, A, Eric Partridge, 1971
• Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang, Tom Dalzell, 2010
• Forgotten English, Jeffrey Kacirk, 1999
• John Blackman's Best of Aussie Slang, John Blackman, 1995
• Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang, Clarence Major, 1994
• Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang, Jonathan Bernstein, 2006
• Macquarie Book of Slang: Australian Slang in the 90s, James Lambert, 1996
• Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, Josefa Heifetz Byrne, 1960
• NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions, Richard A. Spears, 1990
• Oxford Dictionary of Slang, John Ayto, 1998
• Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, John Ayto, 2002
• Oxford English Dictionary (Compact) (Second Edition), 1991
• Oxford English Dictionary (Shorter) on Historical Principles, Vols. 1 & 2, 2007
• Pocket Dictionary of American Slang, Harold Wentworth, 1969
• Public School Word-Book, The, John S. Farmer, 1900
• Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, J.E. Lighter, Vol 1 (1994). Vol. 2 (1997)
• Random House Thesaurus of Slang, Esther Lewin, 1989
• Sexual Slang: A Compendium of Offbeat Words and Colorful Phrases from Shakespeare to Today,
Alan Richter, 1994
• Slang and Euphemism, Richard A. Spears, 2001
• Slang of Sin, The, Tom Dalzell, 1999
• Slang, The Authoritative Topic-By-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from all Walks of Life, Paul
Dickson, 1998
• Slanguage: Dictionary of Irish Slang, Bernard Share, 2005
• Thesaurus of American Slang, Robert L. Chapman, 1991
• Turd Ferguson & The Sausage Party: An Uncensored Guide to College Slang, Ben Applebaum,
2004
• Vice Slang, Tom Dalzell & Terry Victor, 2007
• Vocabulary of Criminal Slang, A, Louis E. Jackson, 1914
• War Slang, Paul Dickson, 2004
• Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition, 2001
• Western Words, A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camp, and Trail, Ramon F. Adams, 1945
• Word Museum, The: The Most Remarkable English Words..., Jeffrey Kacirk, 2000
E-ASH The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795
E-BAI An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey, 1737
E-BAI2 Dictionarium Britannicum, Nathan Bailey, G.Gordon, P. Miller, T. Lediard, 1736
E-BAR A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. James Barclay, 1848
E-BLO Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words....., Thomas Blount, 1656, 1707
E-BOA A Popular and Complete English Dictionary. Rev. John Boag, 1848
E-BOL An Explanatory and Phonographic Dictionary of the English Language, William Bolles, 1853
E-BOU Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language. Jonathan Boucher, 1832
E-BRO The Union Dictionary, Thomas Browne, 1810
E-BRO2 The English Expositor, R. Browne, 1719
E-BUY New and Complete Dictionary of Terms of Art, Egbert Buys, 1768
E-CEN The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
E-CHA Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. Thomas Davidson, 1903
E-CLA A New and Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language, Hyde Clarke, 1872
E-COC The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram, 1647
E-COC2 Cocker's English Dictionary, Edward Cocker, 1724
E-COL An English Dictionary, Elisha Coles, 1717
E-COL2 Oldest Words in the English Language, Herbert Coleridge, 1862
E-CRA A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, John Craig, 1849
E-DAV A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 (also under E-LEW)
E-DYC A New General English Dictionary, Thomas Dyche, William Pardon, 1760
E-DYC2 A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1880
E-FAL The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, 1885
E-FOS A Shakespeare Word-Book, John Foster, 1908
E-FUN A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908
E-HAL A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855
E-HUN The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888; and The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1895
E-IMP The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. John Ogilvie, 1847-1850
E-JAM A New and Enlarged Military Dictionary, or, Alphabetical Explanation of Technical Terms, Charles James, 1802
E-JOH A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson, 1827
E-JOH2 Johnson's and Walker's English Dictionaries Combined, Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph E. Worcester
E-KER Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum or, A General English Dictionary, John Kersey, 1708
E-KNO A Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, James Knowles, 1835
E-LEA Lean's Collectanea, Vincent Stuckey Lean, 1903
E-LEN Colonial English, A Glossary of Australian Anglo-Indian, Pidgin English, West Indian, and South African Words, Edited by Karl Lentzner, 1891
E-LES Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language, James Leslie, 1806
E-LEW A Supplementary English Glossary, T. Lewis, O. Davies, 1881
E-MAC Lost Beauties of the English Language, Charles Mackay, 1874
E-MAR A Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language, Francis Andrew March, 1902
E-MAR2 Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Benjamin Martin, 1749
E-MAS A Supplement to Johnson's English Dictionary, George Mason, 1801
E-MAU The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference, Samuel Maunder, 1840
E-MAY A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, A.L. Mayhew, 1914
E-MAY2 A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from AD 1150 to 1580, Rev. A. L. Mayhew, Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1888
E-MOR Specimens of Early English, Richard Morris, 1867
E-MOR2 Austral English, Edward Ellis Morris, 1898
E-MOR3 A General Dictionary of Commerce, Trade, and Manufactures, Thomas Mortimer, 1810
E-NAR A Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Illusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc....., Robert Nares, 1888
E-NED A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
E-ONI A Shakespeare Glossary, C.T. Onions, 1911
E-PHI The New World of Words or Universal English Dictionary, Edward Phillips, 1720
E-PHI2 The New World of Words or A General English Dictionary, Edward Phillips, 1671
E-RAY A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, John Ray 1818
E-RAY2 A Collection of English Words not Usually Used, John Ray 1674
E-RIC A New Dictionary of the English Language, Charles Richardson, 1836-55
E-RID Riders Dictionarie, By John Rider, Edited by Francis Holyoke, 1606
E-SHE A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas Sheridan, 1790, 1797
E-SHI Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
E-SID The Shakespearian Referee, J.H. Siddons, 1886
E-SKE A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914
E-SMI Glossary of Terms and Phrases, Rev. H. Percy Smith, 1883
E-SMY The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, William Smyth, 1867
E-STA The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, C.A.M. Fennell, 1892
E-STR A Middle English Dictionary, Francis Henry Stratmann, Henry Bradley, 1891
E-SVA Intensifying Similes in English, T. Hilding Svartengren, 1918
E-TOO A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words, William Toone, 1832
E-WEB Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895
E-WHE Dictionary of Reduplicated Words, Henry B. Wheatley, 1866
E-WRI Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright, 1880, 1886
(The Century Dictionary "was a great expansion of the smaller Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, which in turn had been based on the 1841 edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary" - from Wiki.)
English Dialect Dictionaries
ED-ADD A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield, Sidney Oldall Addy, 1888
ED-AKE A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in use in Wiltshire, John Yonge Akerman, 1842
ED-ATK A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect, Rev. J.C. Atkinson, 1868
ED-BAK Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, Anne Elizabeth Baker, 1854
ED-BAM Dialect of South Lancashire, Samuel Bamford, 1850
ED-BAN A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, William Stott Banks, 1865
ED-BAR A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect, William Barnes, 1886
ED-BLA Dialect Glossary of North Riding of Yorkshire, Richard Blakeborough, 1912
ED-BRI The Beauties of Wiltshire, John Britton, 1825
ED-BRO A Glossary of North Country Words, John Trotter Brockett, 1825
ED-BRO2 Provincial Words and Expressions Current in Lincolnshire, J. Ellett Brogden, 1866
ED-CAR The Dialect of Craven in the West-Riding of the County of York, William Carr, 1828
ED-CHA A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words, Mrs. Chamberlain, 1882
ED-CHA2 A Glossary of the Essex Dialect, Richard Stephen Charnock, 1880
ED-CHO The Dialect of Hartland, Devonshire, R. Pearse Chope, 1891
ED-COL A Glossary of Words Used in South-West Lincolnshire, Robert Eden George Cole, 1886
ED-COO A Glossary of the Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex, William Durrant Cooper, 1853
ED-COP A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases, Rev. William H. Cope, 1883
ED-COU Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall, Miss M.A. Courtney, Thomas Q. Couch, 1880
ED-CUN A Glossary of Rochdale-with-Rossendale Words and Phrases, Henry Cunliffe, 1886
ED-DAR The Folk-Speech of South Cheshire, Thomas Darlington, 1887
ED-DAR2 A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire, George Dartnell, 1893
ED-DIC A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland, William Dickinson, 1878
ED-DIN A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Teesdale in the County of Durham, Frederick P. Dinsdale, 1849
ED-EAS A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, Rev. Alfred Easther, 1883
ED-EDD The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
ED-ELL Words in the Dialect of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and North Lancashire, which are Related to the Icelandic, Rev. T. Ellwood, 1895
ED-ELW The West Somerset Word-Book, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, 1886
ED-EVA Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, Arthur Evans, 1881
ED-FER The Dialect of Cumberland, Robert Ferguson, 1873
ED-FOR The Vocabulary of East Anglia, Robert Forby, 1830
ED-GEP A Contribution to an Essex Dialect Dictionary, Edward Gepp, 1920
ED-GOW A Glossary of Surrey Words, Granville Leveson Gower, 1893
ED-GRO A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England, Francis Grose, 1839
ED-HAR A Glossary of Words used in the County of Salop, Rev. CharlesHenry Hartshorne, 1841
ED-HAR2 A Glossary of Words used in Swaledale, Yorkshire, Captain John Harland, 1873
ED-HAV Herefordshire Words and Phrases, Francis T. Havergal, 1887
ED-HES A Glossary of Words used in the County of Northumberland and on The Tyneside, Rd. Oliver Heslop, 1893-
1894
ED-HEW The Peasant Speech of Devon, Sarah Hewett, 1892
ED-HOL A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Robert Holland, 1886
ED-HOL2 A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, William Holloway, 1839
ED-HUN The Hallamshire Glossary, Rev. Joseph Hunter, 1829
ED-HUN2 A Glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) Dialect, Rev. Richard Webster Huntley, 1868
ED-JAC Shropshire Word-Book, Georgina E. Jackson, 1879
ED-JAG Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words, Fred W.P. Jago, 1882
ED-JEN The Dialect of the West of England particularly Somersetshire, James Jennings, 1869
ED-KIR A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases as used in Cumberland and Westmoreland, B. Kirkby, 1898
ED-LAW The Nation in the Parish, or, Records of Upton-on-Severn....and a Glossary...by Robert Lawson, 1884
ED-LEI A Glossary of Words used in the Dialect of Cheshire, Lieut.-Col. Egerton Leigh, 1877
ED-LEW A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Herefordshire, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 1839
ED-LON A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Berkshire, J.G. Bell London, 1852
ED-LON2 A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, W.H. Long, 1886
ED-LOW A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases, Major B. Lowsley, 1888
ED-MOO Suffolk Words and Phrases, Edward Moor, 1823
ED-MOR Yorkshire Folk-Talk, Rev. M. C. F. Morris, 1892
ED-MOR2 A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness, (North Lancashire), J. P. Morris, 1869
ED-NAL Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, John Greaves Nall 1866
ED-NIC The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, John Nicholson, 1889
ED-NOD A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect, John H. Nodal, George Milner, 1875
ED-NOR A Warwickshire Word-Book, G.F. Northall, 1896
ED-PAL Words and Phrases Used at Hetton-Le-Hole (Durham), Rev. F. M. T. Palgrave, 1896
ED-PAL2 A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, to which is added a Glossary, J.F. Palmer, 1837
ED-PAR A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect, W.D. Parish, 1888
ED-PAR2 Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, Rev. W.D. Parish, 1875
ED-PAT A Glossary of Words in use in the Counties of Antrim and Down, W. Patterson, 1880
ED-PEA Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Edward Peacock, 1875
ED-POO An Attempt Towards a Glossary of the Archaic and Provincial Words of the County of Stafford, Charles Henry Poole, 1880
ED-PRE A Supplement to the Glossary of the Dialect of Cumberland, E. W. Prevost, 1905
ED-RAY A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, To Which is Added a Collection of English Words, John Ray, 1737
ED-ROB A Glossary of Dialect and Archaic Words used in the County of Gloucester, J.D. Robertson, 1890
ED-ROB2 The Dialect of Leeds and its Neighbourhood, C. Clough Robinson, 1862
ED-ROB3 A Glossary of Words pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, C. Clough Robinson, 1876
ED-ROB4 A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases, Francis Kildale Robinson, 1855
ED-ROB5 A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby, Edited by F. K. Robinson
ED-ROS A Glossary of Words used in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Frederick Ross, Richard Stead, Thomas Holderness, 1877
ED-RYE A Glossary of Words used in East Anglia, Walter Rye, 1895
ED-SAL A Glossary of Words and Phrases used in S. E. Worcestershire, Jesse Salisbury, 1893
ED-STE The Dialect and Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire, Thomas Sternberg, 1851
ED-THO Randigal Rhymes and A Glossary of Cornish Words, Joseph Thomas, 1895
ED-WIL An Attempt at a Glossary of Some Words used in Cheshire, Roger Wilbraham, 1826
Scottish Dictionaries
SC-ANG A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect, James Stout Angus, 1914
SC-BRO A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Captain Thomas Brown, 1845
SC-EDM An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect, Thos. Edmondston, 1866
SC-GRE The Dialect of Banffshire, with a Glossary of Words not in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, Rev. Walter Gregor, 1866
SC-JAM Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1867 and, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, John Jamieson, 1879-1887
SC-MAC A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, Charles Mackay, 1888
SC-MAC2 The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, John Mactaggart, 1876
SC-MAC3 The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe, and more especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, Charles Mackay, 1877
SC-PIC A Dictionary of the Scottish Language, Ebenezer Picken, 1818
SC-WAR A Scots Dialect Dictionary, Alexander Warrack, 1911
American Dialect/Slang Dictionaries
AD-BAR Dictionary of Americanisms, A Glossary of Words and Phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the United States, John Russell Bartlett, 1860
AD-CLA A New Dictionary of Americanisms, Sylva Clapin, 189?
AD-DAR Dictionary of American Regional English (online)
AD-DIA Dialect Notes, A Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1905-1912
AD-FAR Americanisms Old and New, John S. Farmer, 1889
AD-GRE Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech, B.W. Green, 1912
AD-KAN Kansas University Quarterly, 1893
AD-MAI The American Slang Dictionary, James Maitland, 1891
AD-RUS Current Americanisms: a Dictionary of Words and Phrases in CommonUse, T. Baron Russell, 1893
AD-THO An American Glossary, Richard H. Thornton, 1912
Slang Dictionaries
SL-ANG The Vulgar Tongue: A Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases. Ducange Anglicus, 1859
SL-BAD Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, or Bon-ton...., John Badcock, 1823
SL-BAR A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, Albert Barrere, 1890
SL-FAR Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902
SL-FAR2 A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1921
SL-GEN A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, B.E. (Gent), 1899
(Note: the author of this book is only known by the initials B.E.)
SL-GRO Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823
SL-HEA The English Rogue: Described, in the life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, 1665
SL-HOT The Slang Dictionary, John Camden Hotten, 1913
SL-LEN Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia, and of Some Mixed Languages, Dr. Karl Lentzner, 1892
SL-LIG Historical Dictionary of American Slang, J.E. Lighter, Volumes I & II
SL-MAT Vocabulum: Or, The Rogue's Lexicon, George Washington Matsell, 1859
SL-PAR Slang Today and Yesterday, Eric Partridge, 1933
SL-WAR Passing English of the Victorian Era, James Redding Ware, 1909
Phrase Dictionaries
PH-BRE Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
PH-DIX Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, James Main Dixon, 1891
PH-HYA A Dictionary of English Phrases, Albert M. Hyamson, 1922
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• Americanisms: The English of the New World, M.Schele de Vere, 1872
• American Thesaurus of Slang, A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech, Lester V. Berry and Melvin Van den Bark, 1942
• A-Z of Irish Crime, The: A Guide to Criminal Slang, Alan Sherry, 2007
• Big Book of Being Rude, The, Jonathon Green, 2001
• Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Tony Thorn, 1991
• BritSlang: An Uncensored A-Z of the Peoples' Language, Ray Puxley, 2004
• Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2000 & 2006
• Chambers Dictionary, The, 12th Edition, 2011
• Chambers Slang Dictionary, Jonathon Green, 2008
• Collins English Dictionary, Twelfth Edition, 2014
• Concise New Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, 2008
• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), online (http://www.daredictionary.com/)
• Dictionary of American Slang, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman, 2010
• Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, Harry Orsman, 2003
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http://www.goatlocker.org/resources/nav/navyslang.pdf
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• Dictionary of Service Slang, Park Kendall, 1944
• Dictionary of Sexual Slang, Alan Richter, 1993
• Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 8th Edition, Paul Beale, 2002
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• Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang, Jonathan Bernstein, 2006
• Macquarie Book of Slang: Australian Slang in the 90s, James Lambert, 1996
• Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, Josefa Heifetz Byrne, 1960
• NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions, Richard A. Spears, 1990
• Oxford Dictionary of Slang, John Ayto, 1998
• Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, John Ayto, 2002
• Oxford English Dictionary (Compact) (Second Edition), 1991
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Alan Richter, 1994
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Dickson, 1998
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• Turd Ferguson & The Sausage Party: An Uncensored Guide to College Slang, Ben Applebaum,
2004
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