shelta

英 ['ʃeltə] 美
  • n. [盖尔语]行话，隐语[英格兰、爱尔兰游民、铁匠等人中使用的俚语]
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英文词源

shelta (n.)
secret language of Irish tinkers, 1876, of unknown origin. According to OED it mostly consists of Irish or Gaelic words with inversion or arbitrary substitution of initial consonants.