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 MISS

 

AFTER-CLAP		A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, any thing disagreeable happening after all consequences of the cause have been thought at an end.
BROWN MADAM, or MISS BROWN		The monosyllable.
COMMISSION		A shirt.
COVENTRY		To send one to Coventry; a punishment inflicted by officers of the army on such of their brethren as are testy, or have been guilty of improper behaviour, not worthy the cognizance of a court martial. The person sent to Coventry is considered as absent; no one must speak to or answer any question he asks, except relative to duty, under penalty of being also sent to the same place. On a proper submission, the penitent is recalled, and welcomed by the mess, as just returned from a journey to Coventry.
CRAB		To catch a crab; to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing.
DRY BOB		A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
FRIBBLE		An effeminate fop; a name borrowed from a celebrated character of that kind, in the farce of Miss in her Teens, written by Mr. Garrick.
HALBERT		A weapon carried by a serjeant of foot. To get a halbert; to be appointed a serjeant. To be brought to the halberts; to be flogged a la militaire: soldiers of the infantry, when flogged, being commonly tied to three halberts, set up in a triangle, with a fourth fastened across them. He carries the halbert in his face; a saying of one promoted from a serjeant to a commission officer.
LICK		To beat; also to wash, or to paint slightly over. I'll give you a good lick o' the chops; I'll give you a good stroke or blow on the face. Jack tumbled into a cow t - d, and nastied his best clothes, for which his father stept up, and licked him neatly. - I'll lick you! the dovetail to which is, If you lick me all over, you won't miss - .
MISS		A miss or kept mistress; a harlot.
MISS LAYCOCK		The monosyllable.
MOLLY		A Miss Molly; an effeminate fellow, a sodomite.
MONEY		A girl's private parts, commonly applied to little children: as, Take care, Miss, or you will shew your money.
SLICE		To take a slice; to intrigue, particularly with a married woman, because a slice off a cut loaf is not missed.
TRADING JUSTICES		Broken mechanics, discharged footmen, and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so common as formerly.
VAN-NECK		Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
WHEREAS		To follow a whereas; to become a bankrupt, to figure among princes and potentates: the notice given in the Gazette that a commission of bankruptcy is issued out against any trader, always beginning with the word whereas. He will soon march in the rear of a whereas.