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 LIQUOR

 

BAR THE BUBBLE		To except against the general rule, that he who lays the odds must always be adjudged the loser: this is restricted to betts laid for liquor.
BATCH		We had a pretty batch of it last night; we had a hearty dose of liquor. Batch originally means the whole quantity of bread baked at one time in an oven.
BELCH		All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation.
BENE BOWSE		Good beer, or other strong liquor.
BINGO		Brandy or other spirituous liquor.
CHIMPING MERRY		Exhilarated with liquor. Chirping glass, a cheerful glass, that makes the company chirp like birds in spring.
CHURL		Originally, a labourer or husbandman: figuratively a rude, surly, boorish fellow. To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk wine.
COCKLES		To cry cockles; to be hanged: perhaps from the noise made whilst strangling. - This will rejoice the cockles of one's heart; a saying in praise of wine, ale, or spirituous liquors.
COGUE		A dram of any spirituous liquor.
CONTENT		A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made of milk and gingerbread.
CUP OF THE CREATURE		A cup of good liquor.
DRAIN		Gin: so called from the diuretic qualities imputed to that liquor.
DRAM		A glass or small measure of any spirituous liquors, which, being originally sold by apothecaries, were estimated by drams, ounces, etc. Dog's dram; to spit in his mouth, and clap his back.
GUZZLE		Liquor. To guzzle; to drink greedily.
GUZZLE GUTS		One greedy of liquor.
HEEL TAP		A peg in the heel of a shoe, taken out when it is finished. A person leaving any liquor in his glass, is frequently called upon by the toast-master to take off his heel-tap.
HOT STOMACH		He has so hot a stomach, that he burns all the clothes off his back; said of one who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor.
HUMMING LIQUOR		Double ale, stout pharaoh. See PHARAOH.
KICKS		Breeches. A high kick; the top of the fashion. It is all the kick; it is the present mode. Tip us your kicks, we'll have them as well as your lour; pull off your breeches, for we must have them as well as your money. A kick; sixpence. Two and a kick; half-a-crown. A kick in the guts; a dram of gin, or any other spirituous liquor. A kick up; a disturbance, also a hop or dance. An odd kick in one's gallop; a strange whim or peculiarity.
LIQUOR		To liquor one's boots; to drink before a journey: among Roman Catholics, to administer the extreme unction.
MANUFACTURE		Liquors prepared from materials of English growth.
MASTER OF THE WARDROBE		One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor.
MONKEY		To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of a straw, or small tube. Monkey's allowance; more kicks than halfpence. Who put that monkey on horseback without tying his legs? vulgar wit on a bad horseman.
PARSON PALMER		A jocular name, or term of reproach, to one who stops the circulation of the glass by preaching over his liquor; as it is said was done by a parson of that name whose cellar was under his pulpit.
PHARAOH		Strong malt liquor.
PIN		In or to a merry pin; almost drunk: an allusion to a sort of tankard, formerly used in the north, having silver pegs or pins set at equal distances from the top to the bottom: by the rules of good fellowship, every person drinking out of one of these tankards, was to swallow the quantity contained between two pins; if he drank more or less, he was to continue drinking till he ended at a pin: by this means persons unaccustomed to measure their draughts were obliged to drink the whole tankard. Hence when a person was a little elevated with liquor, he was said to have drunk to a merry pin.
PISS		He will piss when he can't whistle; he will be hanged. He shall not piss my money against the wall; he shall not have my money to spend in liquor. He who once a good name gets, May piss a bed, and say he sweats.
PISS MAKER		A great drinker, one much given to liquor.
PUNCH		A liquor called by foreigners Contradiction, from its being composed of spirits to make it strong, water to make it weak, lemon juice to make it sour, and sugar to make it sweet. Punch is also the name of the prince of puppets, the chief wit and support of a puppet-show. To punch it, is a cant term for running away. Punchable; old passable money, anno 1695. A girl that is ripe for man is called a punchable wench. Cobler's Punch. Urine with a cinder in it.
RAG WATER		Gin, or any other common dram: these liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to rags.
RUM BOOZE		Wine, or any other good liquor. Rum boozing welts; bunches of grapes.
RUM SQUEEZE		Much wine, or good liquor, given among fiddlers.
SHOOT THE CAT		To vomit from excess of liquor; called also catting.
SIZE		To sup at one's own expence. If a MAN asks you to SUP, he treats you; if to SIZE, you pay for what you eat - liquors ONLY being provided by the inviter.
STINGO		Strong beer, or other liquor.
STOUP		A vessel to hold liquor: a vessel containing a size or half a pint, is so called at Cambridge.
SUCK		Strong liquor of any sort. To suck the monkey; see MONKEY. Sucky; drunk.
SUPERNACOLUM		Good liquor, of which there is not even a drop left sufficient to wet one's nail.
SWIG		A hearty draught of liquor.
SWIZZLE		Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North America, a mixture of spruce beer, rum, and sugar, was so called. The 17th regiment had a society called the Swizzle Club, at Ticonderoga, A. D. 1760.
TATTOO		A beat of the drum, of signal for soldiers to go to their quarters, and a direction to the sutlers to close the tap, anddtew nomore liquor for them; it is generally beat at nine in summer and eight in winter. The devil's tattoo; beating with one's foot against the ground, as done by persons in low spirits.
TEARS OF THE TANKARD		The drippings of liquor on a man's waistcoat.
THUMP		A blow. This is better than a thump on the back with a stone; said on giving any one a drink of good liquor on a cold morning. Thatch, thistle, thunder, and thump; words to the Irish, like the Shibboleth of the Hebrews.
TIPPLE		Liquor.
UPRIGHT		Go upright; a word used by shoemakers, taylors and their servants, when any money is given to make them drink, and signifies, Bring it all out in liquor, though the donor intended less, and expects change, or some of his money, to be returned. Three-penny upright. See THREEPENNY UPRIGHT.
WAKE		A country feast, commonly on the anniversary of the tutelar saint of the village, that is, the saint to whom the parish church is dedicated. Also a custom of watching the dead, called Late Wake, in use both in Ireland and Wales, where the corpse being deposited under a table, with a plate of salt on its breast, the table is covered with liquor of all sorts; and the guests, particularly, the younger part of them, amuse themselves with all kinds of pastimes and recreations: the consequence is generally more than replacing the departed friend.
WRAPT UP IN WARM FLANNEL		Drunk with spirituous liquors. He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother's smock; saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies. To be wrapt up in any one: to have a good opinion of him, or to be under his influence.