Metafory awifauniczne w polskim socjolekcie przestępczym (XIX w. – lata 20. XX w.)

The author discusses the etymology of few words used in Polish criminal jargon, from the 19th century until the interwar period. All the analyzed words are zoonimic metaphors. The author focuses on terms derived from the names of birds. In this text the author pesents the lexemes in the oldest Polish sociolectical dictionaries, e.g.: bażant (pheasant), sikora (tit), słowik (nightingale), wrona (crow), kogut (rooster), dzięcioł (woodpecker). The author sets semantic motivations of names and he collates information from several languages for this purpose (he reaches for texts from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries). Mainly presented words didn’t survive, today they aren’t appearing in non-standard dialect.