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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.
Select a letter or type a word and click Find. Searches are automatically wild-carded and clicking on words in the first column will look for all occurrences of that word, or related word.
Example:You click A and one of the results is ARSE. If you now click on ARSE the full list of related content will be displayed.
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Select a letter or type a word and click Find. Searches are automatically wild-carded and clicking on words in the first column will look for all occurrences of that word, or related word.
Example:You click A and one of the results is ARSE. If you now click on ARSE the full list of related content will be displayed.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Entries releated to BITCH
| BITCH | A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer - "I may be a whore, but can't be a bitch." | |
| BITCH BOOBY | A country wench. Military term. | |
| BOOBY, or DOG BOOBY | An awkward lout, clodhopper, or country fellow. See CLODHOPPER and LOUT. A bitch booby; a country wench. | |
| DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA | Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch. | |
| LINE | A term for the act of coition between dog and bitch. | |
| PROUD | Desirous of copulation. A proud bitch; a bitch at heat, or desirous of a dog. | |
| QUEER BITCH | An odd, out-of-the-way fellow. | |
| SALT | Lecherous. A salt bitch: a bitch at heat, or proud bitch. Salt eel; a rope's end, used to correct boys, etc. at sea: you shall have a salt eel for supper. | |
| SCOLD'S CURE | A coffin. The blowen has napped the scold's cure; the bitch is in her coffin. | |