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 DAB

 

AMINADAB		A jeering name for a Quaker.
BANBURY STORY OF A COCK AND A BULL		A roundabout, nonsensical story.
CIRCUMBENDIBUS		A roundabout way, or story. He took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit.
COCK AND A BULL STORY		A roundabout story, without head or tail, i.e. beginning or ending.
DAB		An adept; a dab at any feat or exercise. Dab, quoth Dawkins, when he hit his wife on the arse with a pound of butter.
KNUCKLE-DABS, or KNUCKLE-CONFOUNDERS		Ruffles.
PREADAMITE QUACABITES		This great and laudable society (as they termed themselves) held their grand chapter at the Coal-hole.
QUOD		Newgate, or any other prison. The dab's in quod; the poor rogue is in prison.
RANTIPOLE		A rude romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. To ride rantipole; the same as riding St. George. See ST. GEORGE.
RIGMAROLE		Roundabout, nonsensical. He told a long rigmarole story.
ROAST		To arrest. I'll roast the dab; I'll arrest the rascal. - Also to jeer, ridicule, or banter. He stood the roast; he was the butt. - Roast meat clothes; Sunday or holiday-clothes. To cry roast meat; to boast of one's situation. To rule the roast; to be master or paramount.