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 BRAINS

 

BALLOCKS		The testicles of a man or beast; also a vulgar nick name for a parson. His brains are in his ballocks, a cant saying to designate a fool.
BRAINS		If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow. To have some guts in his brains; to know something.
GARRET, or UPPER STORY		The head. His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool.
GUTS AND GARBAGE		A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels: said of a hard, merciless, unfeeling person.
JINGLE BRAINS		A wild, thoughtless, rattling fellow.
PUDDING-HEADED FELLOW		A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
ROCKED		He was rocked in a stone kitchen; a saying meant to convey the idea that the person spoken of is a fool, his brains having been disordered by the jumbling of his cradle.
SUCK		To pump. To draw from a man all be knows. The file sucked the noodle's brains: the deep one drew out of the fool all he knew.