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 ISLAND

 

CRIBBEYS, or CRIBBY ISLANDS		Blind alleys, courts, or bye-ways; perhaps from the houses built there being cribbed out of the common way or passage; and islands, from the similarity of sound to the Caribbee Islands.
ISLAND		He drank out of the bottle till he saw the island; the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle, which appears like an island in the centre, before the bottle is quite empty.
PADDY		The general name for an Irishman: being the abbreviation of Patrick, the name of the tutelar saint of that island.
PORRIDGE ISLAND		An alley leading from St. Martin's church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks, who cut off ready-dressed meat of all sorts, and also sell soup.
SPICE ISLANDS		A privy. Stink-hole bay or dilberry creek. The fundament.
URINAL OF THE PLANETS		Ireland: so called from the frequent rains in that island.