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 HOD

 

CHOAK PEAR		Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or advertizing a reward for the key, These pears were also called pears of agony.
DRIBBLE		A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is enabled to cog one of them with his fore-finger.
GALIMAUFREY		A hodgepodge made up of the remnants and scraps of the larder.
HOD		Brother Hod; a familiar name for a bricklayer's labourer: from the hod which is used for carrying bricks and mortar.
HODDY DODDY, ALL ARSE AND NO BODY		A short clumsy person, either male or female.
HODGE		An abbreviation of Roger: a general name for a country booby.
HODGE PODGE		An irregular mixture of numerous things.
HODMANDODS		Snails in their shells.
JIBBER THE KIBBER		A method of deceiving seamen, by fixing a candle and lanthorn round the neck of a horse, one of whose fore feet is tied up; this at night has the appearance of a ship's light. Ships bearing towards it, run on shore, and being wrecked, are plundered by the inhabitants. This diabolical device is, it is said, practised by the inhabitants of our western coasts.
JUMPERS		Persons who rob houses by getting in at the windows. Also a set of Methodists established in South Wales.
KENT-STREET EJECTMENT		To take away the street door: a method practised by the landlords in Kent-street, Southwark, when their tenants are above a fortnight's rent in arrear.
KITTLE PITCHERING		A jocular method of hobbling or bothering a troublesome teller of long stories: this is done by contradicting some very immaterial circumstance at the beginning of the narration, the objections to which being settled, others are immediately started to some new particular of like consequence; thus impeding, or rather not suffering him to enter into, the main story. Kittle pitchering is often practised in confederacy, one relieving the other, by which the design is rendered less obvious.
LOOPHOLE		An opening, or means of escape. To find a loophole in an act of parliament; i.e. a method of evading it,
MARTINET		A military term for a strict disciplinarian: from the name of a French general, famous for restoring military discipline to the French army. He first disciplined the French infantry, and regulated their method of encampment: he was killed at the siege of Doesbourg in the year 1672.
NEW LIGHT		One of the new light; a methodist.
ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY		Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second a person who made use of the doxy of another man.
SHOD ALL ROUND		A parson who attends a funeral is said to be shod all round, when he receives a hat-band, gloves, and scarf: many shoeings being only partial.
SIMEONITES		At Cambridge, the followers of the Rev. Charles Simeon, fellow of King's College, author of Skeletons of Sermons, and preacher at Trinity church; they are in fact rank methodists.
SLUR		To slur, is a method of cheating at dice: also to cast a reflection on any one's character, to scandalize.
SWADDLERS		The tenth order of the canting tribe, who not only rob, but beat, and often murder passenges. Swaddlers is also the Irish name for methodist.
TROOPER		You will die the death of a trooper's horse, that is, with your shoes-on; a jocular method of telling any one he will be hanged.
WELCH EJECTMENT		To unroof the house, a method practised by landlords in Wales to eject a bad tenant.
WHITFIELITE		A follower of George Whitfield, a Methodist.