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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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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 FLING
| COLD BURNING | A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of their mess laws; it is administered in the following manner: The prisoner is set against the wall, with the arm which is to be burned tied as high above his head as possible. The executioner then ascends a stool, and having a bottle of cold water, pours it slowly down the sleeve of the delinquent, patting him, and leading the water gently down his body, till it runs out at his breeches knees: this is repeated to the other arm, if he is sentenced to be burned in both. | |
| DANDY PRAT | An insignificant or trifling fellow. | |
| FIDDLE FADDLE | Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier. | |
| FLEA BITE | A trifling injury. To send any one away with a flea in his ear; to give any one a hearty scolding. | |
| FLING | To trick or cheat. He flung me fairly out of it: he cheated me out of it. | |
| FRIG | Figuratively used for trifling. | |
| FRIG PIG | A trifling, fiddle-faddle fellow. | |
| KID LAY | Rogues who make it their business to defraud young apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed to their charge, by prevailing on them to execute some trifling message, pretending to take care of their parcels till they come back; these are, in cant terms, said to be on the kid lay. | |
| MUFFLING CHEAT | A napkin. | |
| NIGGLING | Cutting awkwardly, trifling; also accompanying with a woman. | |
| PIDDLE | To make water: a childish expression; as, Mammy, I want to piddle. Piddling also means trifling, or doing any thing in a small degree: perhaps from peddling. | |
| SHIFTING | Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. | |
| SHUFFLE | To make use of false pretences, or unfair shifts. A shuffling fellow; a slippery shifting fellow. | |
| SLIPPERY CHAP | One on whom there can be no dependance, a shuffling fellow. | |
| SMUG LAY | Persons who pretend to be smugglers of lace and valuable articles; these men borrow money of publicans by depositing these goods in their hands; they shortly decamp, and the publican discovers too late that he has been duped; and on opening the pretended treasure, he finds trifling articles of no value. | |
| STEEL BAR | A needle. A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay- maker, or any other person using a needle. | |
| WHIFFLERS | Ancient name for fifers; also persons at the universities who examine candidates for degrees. A whiffling cur, a small yelping cur. | |
| YAFFLING | Eating. | |
| YELP | To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions. | |