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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Entries releated to COMMODITY

 

COMMODITY		A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.
CRINKUM CRANKUM		A woman's commodity. See SPECTATOR.
MAN TRAP		A woman's commodity.
MONOSYLLABLE		A woman's commodity.
PITCHER		The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.
RUN GOODS		A maidenhead, being a commodity never entered.
WARE		A woman's ware; her commodity.