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 HANK

 

BULL HANKERS  Persons who over-drive bulls, or frequent bull baits.
 
CROOK SHANKS  A nickname for a man with bandy legs. He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men with crooked legs.
 
DUTCH COMFORT  Thank God it is no worse.
 
FIDDLERS MONEY  All sixpences: sixpence being the usual sum paid by each couple, for music at country wakes and hops. Fiddler's fare; meat, drink, and money. Fiddler's pay; thanks and wine.
 
GIGG  A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip his nose. Grunter's gigg; a hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise, and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock.
 
HANK  He has a hank on him; i.e. an ascendancy over him, or a hold upon him. A Smithfield hank; an ox, rendered furious by overdriving and barbarous treatment. See BULL HANK.
 
HANKER  To hanker after any thing; to have a longing after or for it.
 
LONG SHANKS  A long-legged person.
 
PICKTHANK  A tale-bearer or mischief maker.
 
RED SHANK  A Scotch Highlander.
 
SHANKER  A venereal wart.
 
SHANKS  Legs, or gams.
 
SHANKS NAGGY  To ride shanks naggy: to travel on foot. SCOTCH.
 
SPECKED WHIPER  A coloured hankerchief.
 
SPIDER-SHANKED  Thin-legged.
 
SPINDLE SHANKS  Slender legs.
 
SPOONEY Thin, haggard, like the shank of a spoon; also delicate, craving for something, longing for sweets. Avaricious. That tit is damned spooney. She's a spooney piece of goods. He's a spooney old fellow.