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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], Hotton's slang Dictionary. (search)
"fencers," whence some of the knowledge in this book is derived, he would have heard that gonnof is Hebrew for "a thief." Curiously enough, too, he defines "John" as an "old slang term for a coachman, or one fond of driving," but does not record the derivation of the burnt from that charactering king of Israel whom the watchman recognized by his furious dirving. Still worse, he suggests that "Go to Jericho!" "is probably derived from Johanum. He might as well have derived "Hey-Day!" from "Hades." He says of the American "Skedaddle": "The word is very fair Greek, the root being that of Skedanumi, to disperse, to retire tumultuously, and it was probably set afloat by some professor at Harvard." This is more than doubtful. On the Greek origin of "Lord," as applied to those who are vulgarly called "hunchbacks," Mr. Hotton is silent. It is from Aogdoc, bent. He has also strangely omitted what may be termed the typographical slang word "Colophon," the very curious history and applicat