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1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue (NSFW?)

IanExMachinaIanExMachina
edited 2012-02-23 17:48:55 in IJAM
I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.

Want to know a lot of vulgar (for 1811 that is) language?
Then this is the perfect dictionary. 



BITER. A wench whose **** is ready to bite her a-se; a lascivious, rampant wench.


TO BOX THE JESUIT, AND GET COCK ROACHES. A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that society.



Etc.

(A lot of entries have CANT written in them which basically means slang.) 

Comments

  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    You still find some of these expressions used in English, British English at any rate. Although some seem to have changed meaning e.g. "blackleg" now means a strike-breaker, not a gambler as it seems to have done in 1811. I vaguely remember my grandma talking about "going to Bedfordshire" for going off to bed.


     

  • JHMJHM
    Here, There, Everywhere

    Cant is a bit more than slang; it was the jargon of thieves, hustlers, low-lives and scrappers. Basically, the language of the Old World ghetto.


    A lot of modern words are from cant, like "pal" and "camouflage."

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