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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EARNEST		A deposit in part of payment, to bind a bargain.
EARTH BATH		A Grave.
EASY		Make the cull easy or quiet; gag or kill him. As easy as pissing the bed.
EASY VIRTUE		A lady of easy virtue: an impure or prostitute.
EAT		To eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw; a jocular reproach to a proud man. To eat one's words; to retract what one has said.
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.
ELBOW GREASE		Labour. Elbow grease will make an oak table shine.
ELBOW ROOM		Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged.
ELBOW SHAKER		A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice.
ELF		A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman.
ELLENBOROUGH LODGE		The King's Bench Prison. Lord Ellenborough's teeth; the chevaux de frize round the top of the wall of that prison.
EMPEROR		Drunk as an emperor, i.e. ten times as drunk as a lord.
ENGLISH BURGUNDY		Porter.
ENSIGN BEARER		A drunken man, who looks red in the face, or hoists his colours in his drink.
EQUIPT		Rich; also, having new clothes. Well equipt; full of money, or well dressed. The cull equipped me with a brace of meggs; the gentleman furnished me with. a couple of guineas.
ESSEX LION		A calf; Essex being famous for calves, and chiefly supplying the London markets.
ESSEX STILE		A ditch; a great part of Essex is low marshy ground, in which there are more ditches than Stiles.
ETERNITY Box		A coffin.
EVE'S CUSTOM-HOUSE		Where Adam made his first entry. The monosyllable.
EVES		Hen roosts.
EVES DROPPER		One that lurks about to rob hen-roosts; also a listener at doors and windows, to hear private conversation.
EVIL		A halter. Also a wife.
EWE		A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, drest lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl.
EXECUTION DAY		Washing day.
EXPENDED		Killed: alluding to the gunner's accounts, wherein the articles consumed are charged under the title of expended. Sea phrase.
EYE		It's all my eye and Betty Martin. It's all nonsense, all mere stuff.
EYE-SORE		A disagreeable object. It will be an eye-sore as long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cut for a fistula in ano.