The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to ADAM

 

ADAM TILER		A pickpocket's associate, who receives the stolen goods, and runs off with them.
ADAM'S ALE		Water.
BREECHES BIBLE		An edition of the Bible printed in 1598, wherein it is said that Adam and Eve sewed figleaves together, and made themselves breeches.
BROWN MADAM, or MISS BROWN		The monosyllable.
EVE'S CUSTOM-HOUSE		Where Adam made his first entry. The monosyllable.
FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER		A pick pocket. To file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives'the booty to the adam tiler, who scours off with it.
JACK ADAMS		A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
MADAM		A kept madam; a kept mistress.
MADAM RAN		A whore.
PREADAMITE QUACABITES		This great and laudable society (as they termed themselves) held their grand chapter at the Coal-hole.
PRINCUM PRANCUM		Mrs. Princum Prancum; a nice, precise, formal madam.
RIB		A wife: an allusion to our common mother Eve, made out of Adam's rib. A crooked rib: a cross-grained wife.
TANTRUMS		Pet, or passion: madam was in her tantrums.
VAN		Madam Van; see MADAM.