The Quarterly Review, Volume 286William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1948 - English literature |
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... spiv , almost offensively English . Queer ( in the sixteenth century , often quire or quyer ; in the seventeenth , sometimes quier or quere ) has always , in cant , signified bad , inferior ; cheap ; base , counterfeit ; criminal ...
... spiv , almost offensively English . Queer ( in the sixteenth century , often quire or quyer ; in the seventeenth , sometimes quier or quere ) has always , in cant , signified bad , inferior ; cheap ; base , counterfeit ; criminal ...
Page 190
... spiv is one who makes a living. Phoney suggests spivs , who are phoney members of * I owe this form to Dr Alberto Menarini , the great Italian authority on cant . * London : George Allen and Unwin , Ltd. 190 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNDERWORLD.
... spiv is one who makes a living. Phoney suggests spivs , who are phoney members of * I owe this form to Dr Alberto Menarini , the great Italian authority on cant . * London : George Allen and Unwin , Ltd. 190 THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNDERWORLD.
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... spiv occurs in Axel Bracey's novel , School for Scoundrels , 1934. In January 1937 , John Worby's ' The Other Half . The Autobiography of a Spiv , which went through seven editions in two years , and in 1939 the sequel , ' Spiv's ...
... spiv occurs in Axel Bracey's novel , School for Scoundrels , 1934. In January 1937 , John Worby's ' The Other Half . The Autobiography of a Spiv , which went through seven editions in two years , and in 1939 the sequel , ' Spiv's ...
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The South African Indians and U N | 2 |
The Language of the Underworld | 3 |
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