Example sentences for: hotten

How can you use “hotten” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

  • Earlier, J. C. Hotten's Slang Dictionary suggested it might be a corruption of contentious . Most dictionaries today accept the theory that it arose from a Middle English word conteck `quarrelling' or `contention.

  • Jerry first appeared in Hotten's Dictionary of Slang in 1859, defined as a chamber utensil.

  • 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.


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