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 EASY

 

BACON FED		Fat, greasy.
CHEEKS		Ask cheeks near cunnyborough; the repartee of a St. Gilse's fair one, who bids you ask her backside, anglice her arse. A like answer is current in France: any one asking the road or distance to Macon, a city near Lyons, would be answered by a French lady of easy virtue, 'Mettez votre nez dans mon cul, & vous serrez dans les Fauxbourgs.'
CHILD		To eat a child; to partake of a treat given to the parish officers, in part of commutation for a bastard child the common price was formerly ten pounds and a greasy chin. See GREASY CHIN.
COCK ROBIN		A soft, easy fellow.
COT, or QUOT		A man who meddles with women's household business, particularly in the kitchen. The punishment commonly inflicted on a quot, is pinning a greasy dishclout to the skirts of his coat.
COVENT, or CONVENT GARDEN, vulgarly called COMMON		Anciently, the garden belonging to a dissolved monastery; now famous for being the chief market in London for fruit, flowers, and herbs. The theatres are situated near it. In its environs are many brothels, and not long ago, the lodgings of the second order of ladies of easy virtue were either there, or in the purlieus of Drury Lane.
DISHCLOUT		A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
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.
FREE AND EASY JOHNS		A society which meet at the Hole in the Wall, Fleet-street, to tipple porter, and sing bawdry.
GREASE		To bribe. To grease a man in the fist; to bribe him. To grease a fat sow in the arse; to give to a rich man. Greasy chin; a treat given to parish officers in part of commutation for a bastard: called also, Eating a child.
IMPURE		A modern term for a lady of easy virtue.
INLAID		Well inlaid; in easy circumstances, rich or well to pass.
LADY OF EASY VIRTUE		A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute.
O BE JOYFUL		I'll make you sing O be joyful on the other side of your mouth; a threat, implying the party threatened will be made to cry. To sing O be easy; to appear contented when one has cause to complain, and dare not.
SLUSH		Greasy dish-water, or the skimmings of a pot where fat meat has been boiled.
SLUSH BUCKET		A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food.
SWEET		Easy to be imposed on, or taken in; also expert, dexterous clever. Sweet's your hand; said of one dexterous at stealing.
THORNS		To be or sit upon thorns; to be uneasy, impatient, anxious for an event.