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 CAG

 

CAG		To be cagged. To be sulky or out of humour. The cove carries the cag; the man is vexed or sullen.
CAG MAGG		Bits and scraps of provisions. Bad meat.
CAGG		To cagg; a military term used by the private soldiers, signifying a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; or, as the term is, till their cagg is out: which vow is commonly observed with the strictest exactness. Ex. I have cagg'd myself for six months. Excuse me this time, and I will cagg myself for a year. This term is also used in the same sense among the common people of Scotland, where it is performed with divers ceremonies.
CAGG MAGGS		Old Lincolnshire geese, which having been plucked ten or twelve years, are sent up to London to feast the cockneys.
CANARY BIRD		A jail bird, a person used to be kept in a cage; also, in the canting sense, guineas.
LOUSE HOUSE		The round house, cage, or any other place of confinement.
NEWGATE BIRD		A thief or sharper, frequently caged in Newgate.
QUIRE, or CHOIR BIRD		A complete rogue, one that has sung in different choirs or cages, i.e. gaols.
RASCAL		A rogue or villain: a term borrowed from the chase; a rascal originally meaning a lean shabby deer, at the time of changing his horns, penis, etc. whence, in the vulgar acceptation, rascal is conceived to signify a man without genitals: the regular vulgar answer to this reproach, if uttered by a woman, is the offer of an ocular demonstration of the virility of the party so defamed. Some derive it from RASCAGLIONE, an Italian word signifying a man. without testicles, or an eunuch.