Comments on: Jonathon Green’s Dictionary Of Slang https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/15/jonathon-greens-dictionary-of-slang/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:18:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jim boam https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/15/jonathon-greens-dictionary-of-slang/#comment-1528710 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:18:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150548#comment-1528710 What is the origin of fat francis please? My london relatives used to say to me get off your fat francis and do some work?

]]> By: Mo06 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/15/jonathon-greens-dictionary-of-slang/#comment-1113317 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 10:32:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150548#comment-1113317 Thanks for this, have been browsing the online version.

A very interesting dictionary.

I wonder, what is the criterion for inclusion or exclusion of rhyming slang ?

For example, ‘butchers’ is included, as is ‘Barclays bank’, but many terms are not.

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/15/jonathon-greens-dictionary-of-slang/#comment-1112063 Sat, 15 Oct 2016 13:30:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150548#comment-1112063 In reply to John Medd.

Melton is a woollen cloth that originates from Melton Mowbray

]]> By: John Medd https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/10/15/jonathon-greens-dictionary-of-slang/#comment-1112028 Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:49:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150548#comment-1112028 What, pray tell, is meant by ‘built in the Melton Mowbray style’?

]]>