St. Giles's Greek

English

Noun

St. Giles's Greek (uncountable)

  1. (slang, obsolete) Slang or cant language.
    • 1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, page 52:
      A number of the phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatised in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established — […]

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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