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 BUG

 

BAM		A jocular imposition, the same as a humbug. See HUMBUG.
BETTY MARTIN		That's my eye, Betty Martin; an answer to any one that attempts to impose or humbug.
BOOBY HUTCH		A one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle.
BUG		A nick name given by the Irish to Englishmen; bugs having, as it is said, been introduced into Ireland by the English.
BUG-HUNTER		An upholsterer.
BUGABOE		A scare-babe, or bully-beggar.
BUGAROCH		Comely, handsome. IRISH.
BUGGER		A blackguard, a rascal, a term of reproach. Mill the bloody bugger; beat the damned rascal.
BUGGY		A one-horse chaise.
CATTLE		Sad cattle: whores or gypsies. Black cattle, bugs.
GAMON		To humbug. To deceive, To tell lies. What rum gamon the old file pitched to the flat; how finely the knowing old fellow humbugged the fool.
HUM, or HUMBUG		To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device. A humbug; a jocular imposition, or deception. To hum and haw; to hesitate in speech, also to delay, or be with difficulty brought to consent to any matter or business.
HUMBUGS		The brethren of the venerable society of humbugs was held at brother Hallam's, in Goodman's Fields.
LINE		To get a man into a line, i.e. to divert his attention by a ridiculous or absurd story. To humbug.
RUM BUGHER		A valuable dog.
SCULL, or SCULLER		A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a one-horse chaise or buggy.
TANDEM		A two-wheeled chaise, buggy, or noddy, drawn by two horses, one before the other: that is, AT LENGTH.
TRAVELLING PIQUET		A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation: A parson riding a grey horse, witholue furniture; game. An old woman under a hedge; ditto. A cat looking out of a window; 60. A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40. A man with a woman behind him; 30. A flock of sheep; 20. A flock of geese; 10. A post chaise; 5. A horseman; 2. A man or woman walking; 1.