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 BUB

 

BAR THE BUBBLE		To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: this is restricted to betts laid for liquor.
BLUE BOAR		A venereal bubo.
BUB		Strong beer.
BUBBER		A drinking bowl; also a great drinker; a thief that steals plate from public houses.
BUBBLE		To cheat.
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK		Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the fire.
BUBBLY JOCK		A turkey cock. SCOTCH.
BUBE		The venereal disease.
BUSHEL BUBBY		A full breasted woman.
CLANK NAPPER		A silver tankard stealer. See RUM BUBBER.
COG		The money, or whatsoever the sweeteners drop to draw in a bubble.
DIDDEYS		A woman's breasts or bubbies.
DUMB WATCH		A venereal bubo in the groin.
EIGHT EYES		I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a cock-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
FLAT		A bubble, gull, or silly fellow.
GAME		Bubbles or pigeons drawn in to be cheated. Also, at bawdy-houses, lewd women. Mother have you any game; mother, have you any girls? To die game; to suffer at the gallows without shewing any signs of fear or repentance. Game pullet; a young whore, or forward girl in the way of becoming one.
HUBBLE-BUBBLE		Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. Also an instrument used for smoaking through water in the East Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.
HUBBUB		A noise, riot, or disturbance.
POULAIN		A bubo. FRENCH.
RUM BUBBER		A dexterous fellow at stealing silver tankards from inns and taverns.
SACK		A pocket. To buy the sack: to get drunk. To dive into the sack; to pick a pocket. To break a bottle in an empty sack; a bubble bet, a sack with a bottle in it not being an empty sack.
TRIPE		The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.
VAN-NECK		Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
WHIPT SYLLABUB		A flimsy, frothy discourse or treatise, without solidity.
WITCHES		Silver. Witcher bubber; a silver bowl. Witcher tilter; a silver-hilted sword. Witcher cully; a silversmith.