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duskpetersonAs Timeline of Slang notes, they're deriving their data from Green's Dictionary of Slang. Which is online!
100,000 slang dictionary entries.
Other helpful resources:
A ton of American and British slang dictionaries at HathiTrust in downloadable PDF format, some covering this time period. HathiTrust has nearly all of the older Google Books. Some of these e-books are also available in other formats at the Gutenberg Project or the Internet Archive, but HathiTrust is gold when it comes to subject-heading metadata.
(Man, I love the present-day Internet. I remember spending hours searching out stuff like this during the early 00s.)
John Ayto's The Oxford Dictionary of Slang can be borrowed from Open Library. It includes historical American and British slang. It's thematically organized and has a large section on sex-related words.
John Ayto also wrote the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Euphemism, which isn't really a dictionary - rather, it's a book-long essay on, and listing of, historical and modern euphemisms. The words are listed in chronological order within each section. The contents:
1. Crime.
2. Assorted sins & nonindictable offences.
3. Sex.
4. The body & its parts.
5. Covering up: Clothing & nakedness.
6. Bodily functions & secretions.
7. Illness & injury.
8. Fading out: Old age & death.
9. Work.
10. Poverty.
11. Government & politics.
12. Warfare.
13. Race.
100,000 slang dictionary entries.
Other helpful resources:
A ton of American and British slang dictionaries at HathiTrust in downloadable PDF format, some covering this time period. HathiTrust has nearly all of the older Google Books. Some of these e-books are also available in other formats at the Gutenberg Project or the Internet Archive, but HathiTrust is gold when it comes to subject-heading metadata.
(Man, I love the present-day Internet. I remember spending hours searching out stuff like this during the early 00s.)
John Ayto's The Oxford Dictionary of Slang can be borrowed from Open Library. It includes historical American and British slang. It's thematically organized and has a large section on sex-related words.
John Ayto also wrote the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Euphemism, which isn't really a dictionary - rather, it's a book-long essay on, and listing of, historical and modern euphemisms. The words are listed in chronological order within each section. The contents:
1. Crime.
2. Assorted sins & nonindictable offences.
3. Sex.
4. The body & its parts.
5. Covering up: Clothing & nakedness.
6. Bodily functions & secretions.
7. Illness & injury.
8. Fading out: Old age & death.
9. Work.
10. Poverty.
11. Government & politics.
12. Warfare.
13. Race.
