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 LIB

 

BADGE		A term used for one burned in the hand. He has got his badge, and piked; he was burned in the hand, and is at liberty.
CALIBOGUS		Rum and spruce beer, American beverage.
GLIB		Smooth, slippery. Glib tongued; talkative.
GREEN SICKNESS		The disease of maids occasioned by celibacy.
LIB		To lie together.
LIBBEGE		A bed.
LIBBEN		A private dwelling-house.
LIBKEN		A house to lie in.
LIG		A bed. See LIB.
POUND		To beat. How the milling cove pounded the cull for being nuts on his blowen; how the boxer beat the fellow for taking liberties with his mistress.
SATYR		A libidinous fellow: those imaginary things are by poets reported to be extremely salacious.
TOLLIBAN RIG		A species of cheat carried on by a woman, assuming the character of a dumb and deaf conjuror.
TRIPE		The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.