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 LUSH

 

BLOWER		A pipe. How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy.
DOG		An old dog at it; expert or accustomed to any thing. Dog in a manger; one who would prevent another from enjoying what he himself does not want: an allusion to the well-known fable. The dogs have not dined; a common saying to any one whose shirt hangs out behind. To dog, or dodge; to follow at a distance. To blush like a blue dog, i.e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any one; a punishment inflicted in the night on a fresh prisoner, by his comrades, in case of his refusal to pay the usual footing or garnish.
FLUSH IN THE POCKET		Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
FREEMAN'S QUAY		Free of expence. To lush at Freeman's Quay; to drink at another's cost.
LUSH		Strong beer.
LUSH		To drink.
LUSHEY		Drunk. The rolling kiddeys hud a spree, and got bloody lushey; the dashing lads went on a party of pleasure, and got very drunk.
PATTER		To talk. To patter flash; to speak flash, or the language used by thieves. How the blowen lushes jackey, and patters flash; how the wench drinks gin, and talks flash.
RIBBIN		Money. The ribbin runs thick; i.e. there is plenty of money. Blue ribbin. Gin. The cull lushes the blue ribbin; the silly fellow drinks common gin.
SCANDAL PROOF		One who has eaten shame and drank after it, or would blush at being ashamed.
SLOP		Tea. How the blowens lush the slop. How the wenches drink tea!
SLUSH		Greasy dish-water, or the skimmings of a pot where fat meat has been boiled.
SLUSH BUCKET		A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food.