Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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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.

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Entries releated to GAG

 

BAGGAGE  Heavy baggage; women and children. Also a familiar epithet for a woman; as, cunning baggage, wanton baggage, etc.
 
BATTLE-ROYAL  A battle or bout at cudgels or fisty-cuffs, wherein more than two persons are engaged: perhaps from its resemblance, in that particular, to more serious engagements fought to settle royal disputes.
 
BLOT THE SKRIP AND JAR IT  To stand engaged or bound for any one.
 
BLUBBER  The mouth. - I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by gagging or murdering him.
 
CAT MATCH  When a rook or cully is engaged amongst bad bowlers.
 
DIPT  Pawned or mortgaged.
 
EASY  Make the cull easy or quiet; gag or kill him. As easy as pissing the bed.
 
ELBOW ROOM  Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged.
 
FOGUS  Tobacco. Tip me a gage of fogus; give me a pipe of tobacco.
 
GAG  An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves, for propping open the mouth of a person robbed, thereby to prevent his calling out for assistance.
 
GAGE  A quart pot, or a pint; also a pipe.
 
GAGE, or FOGUS  A pipe of tobacco.
 
GAGGERS  High and Low. Cheats, who by sham pretences, and wonderful stories of their sufferings, impose on the credulity of well meaning people. See RUM GAGGER.
 
JOCKUM GAGE  A chamber-pot, jordan, looking-glass, or member-mug.
 
RUM GAGGERS  Cheats who tell wonderful stories of their sufferings at sea, or when taken by the Algerines,
 
STALLING  Making or ordaining. Stalling to the rogue; an ancient ceremony of instituting a candidate into the society of rogues, somewhat similar to the creation of a herald at arms. It is thus described by Harman: the upright man taking a gage of bowse, i.e. a pot of strong drink, pours it on the head of the rogue to be admitted; saying, - I, A.B. do stall thee B.C. to the rogue; and from henceforth it shall be lawful for thee to cant for thy living in all places.
 
THREE TO ONE  He is playing three to one, though sure to lose; said of one engaged in the amorous congress.
 
TWIG  To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, snap asunder, or break off. To twig the darbies; to knock off the irons.
 
WATER  His chops watered at it; he longed earnestly for it. To watch his waters; to keep a strict watch on any one's actions. In hot water: in trouble, engaged in disputes.
 
WIFE IN WATER COLOURS  A mistress, or concubine; water colours being, like their engagements, easily effaced, or dissolved.