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 ARTICLES

 

ARTICLES		Breeches; coat, waistcoat, and articles.
DEATH HUNTER		An undertaker, one who furnishes the necessary articles for funerals. See CARRION HUNTER.
EXPENDED		Killed: alluding to the gunner's accounts, wherein the articles consumed are charged under the title of expended. Sea phrase.
LUMP		To beat; also to include a number of articles under one head.
MUD LARK		A fellow who goes about by the water side picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Also a duck.
PINCH		To go into a tradesman's shop under the pretence of purchasing rings or other light articles, and while examining them to shift some up the sleeve of the coat. Also to ask for change for a guinea, and when the silver is received, to change some of the good shillings for bad ones; then suddenly pretending to recollect that you had sufficient silver to pay the bill, ask for the guinea again, and return the change, by which means several bad shillings are passed.
SLOP SELLER		A dealer in those articles, who keeps a slop shop.
SMALL CLOTHES		Breeches: a gird at the affected delicacy of the present age; a suit being called coat, waistcoat, and articles, or small clothes.
SMUG LAY		Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace and valuable articles; these men borrow money of publicans by depositing these goods in their hands; they shortly decamp, and the publican discovers too late that he has been duped; and on opening the pretended treasure, he finds trifling articles of no value.