Cant

Cant is thus the idiom of a vernacular tradition embedded in the "flash crib," the place where flash talk, or cant, is spoken.

Club Monad 2008

The word Cant is rather from cantare, as a chanting whine, than from the Andrew cants, father and son, of Charles the Second's time.

Spectator, August 18, 1711 1711

Weather, Jan. 3 and 4, 1854 -- Star of Bethlehem -- Origin of the Word "Cant" -- Epigram on Four Lawyers 103

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The word Cant is rather from 'cantare', as a chanting whine, than from the Andrew Cants, father and son, of Charles the Second's time.] *****

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Mons Jovis, to the city called Cant Guic, and to the western Tumulus, that is, to Cruc Occident.

History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) fl. 796 Nennius 1846

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"Cant," the earliest term for slang in English, refers to the specialized jargon of the criminal underworld, employed by thieves, beggars, prostitutes, and vagabonds.

Club Monad 2008

Lady Katrine welcoming her victims -- her unsuspicious victims -- he slid off to the friends round the tea-table to learn from "Cant" what "Scandal" had been telling.

Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Cant wait for archery season to start, and good luck to everyone, regardless of what you choose to carry in the field.

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