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 GUN

 

BLUNDERBUSS		A short gun, with a wide bore, for carrying slugs; also a stupid, blundering fellow.
ENGLISH BURGUNDY		Porter.
EXPENDED		Killed: alluding to the gunner's accounts, wherein the articles consumed are charged under the title of expended. Sea phrase.
FIRING A GUN		Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the company, Hark! did you not hear a gun? - but now we are talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.
GUN		He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities.
GUNDIGUTS		A fat, pursy fellow.
GUNNER'S DAUGHTER		To kiss the gunner's daughter; to be tied to a gun and flogged on the posteriors; a mode of punishing boys on board a ship of war.
GUNPOWDER		An old Woman.
GUY		A dark lanthorn: an allusion to Guy Faux, the principal actor in the gunpowder plot. Stow the guy: conceal the lanthorn.
PETER GUNNER		Will kill all the birds that died last summer. A piece of wit commonly thrown out at a person walking through a street or village near London, with a gun in his hand.
POPE		A figure burned annually every fifth of November, in memory of the gunpowder plot, which is said to have been carried on by the papists.
SALMON-GUNDY		Apples, onions, veal or chicken, and pickled herrings, minced fine, and eaten with oil and vinegar; some derive the name of this mess from the French words SELON MON GOUST, because the proportions of the different ingredients are regulated by the palate of the maker; others say it bears the name of the inventor, who was a rich Dutch merchant; but the general and most probable opinion is, that it was invented by the countess of Salmagondi, one of the ladies of Mary de Medicis, wife of King Henry IV. of France, and by her brought into France.
TRUCK		To exchange, swop, or barter; also a wheel such as ship's guns are placed upon.