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In it he refers to the 1785 edition of Captain Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue .
It was so referred to as far back as 1785 when Grose, in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue , stated, cat-lap : tea, called the scandal broth.
Other linguists who have taken on the chalenge of doing so include Jonathan Green, Hotten, Grose, William and Mary Morris, Wentworth and Flexner, and Eric Partridge, who published the first edition of his enormous Dictionary of Slag and Unconvential English in 1937.
I wonder if Mr Major is aware of the 1811 dictionary, A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence , which appeared twenty years after Grose's death and which is presumably an expansion of the original work.