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 NAP

 

BUS-NAPPER		A constable.
BUS-NAPPER'S KENCHIN		A watchman.
CLANK NAPPER		A silver tankard stealer. See RUM BUBBER.
CRIMP		A broker or factor, as a coal crimp, who disposes of the cargoes of the Newcastle coal ships; also persons employed to trapan or kidnap recruits for the East Indian and African companies. To crimp, or play crimp; to play foul or booty: also a cruel manner of cutting up fish alive, practised by the London fishmongers, in order to make it eat firm; cod, and other crimped fish, being a favourite dish among voluptuaries and epicures.
CRUISERS		Beggars, or highway spies, who traverse the road, to give intelligence of a booty; also rogues ready to snap up any booty that may offer, like privateers or pirates on a cruise.
DAMPER		A luncheon, or snap before dinner: so called from its damping, or allaying, the appetite; eating and drinking, being, as the proverb wisely observes, apt to take away the appetite.
DISHCLOUT		A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
JACKANAPES		An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow.
KID		A little dapper fellow. A child. The blowen has napped the kid. The girl is with child.
KIDNAPPER		Originally one who stole or decoyed children or apprentices from their parents or masters, to send them to the colonies; called also spiriting: but now used for all recruiting crimps for the king's troops, or those of the East India company, and agents for indenting servants for the plantations, etc.
KIT		A dancing-master, so called from his kit or cittern, a small fiddle, which dancing-masters always carry about with them, to play to their scholars. The kit is likewise the whole of a soldier's necessaries, the contents of his knapsack: and is used also to express the whole of different commodities: as, Here, take the whole kit; i.e. take all.
KNAPPERS POLL		A sheep's head.
MORNING DROP		The gallows. He napped the king's pardon and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and was not hanged.
MUFFLING CHEAT		A napkin.
NAP		To cheat at dice by securing one chance. Also to catch the venereal disease. You've napt it; you are infected.
NAPPER		The head; also a cheat or thief.
NAPPER OF NAPS		A sheep stealer.
NAPPING		To take any one napping; i.e. to come upon him unexpectedly, to find him asleep: as, He caught him napping, as Morse caught his mare.
NAPPY ALE		Strong ale.
POLL		The head, jolly nob, napper, or knowledge box; also a wig.
PRIG NAPPER		A thief taker.
RAMMER		The arm. The busnapper's kenchin seized my rammer; i.e. the watchman laid hold of my arm.
REGULARS		Share of the booty. The coves cracked the swell's crib, fenced the swag, and each cracksman napped his regular; some fellows broke open a gentleman's house, and after selling the property which they had stolen, they divided the money between them.
RENDEZVOUS		A place of meeting. The rendezvous of the beggars were, about the year 1638, according to the Bellman, St, Quinton's, the Three Crowns in the Vintry, St. Tybs, and at Knapsbury: there were four barns within a mile of London. In Middlesex were four other harbours, called Draw the Pudding out of the Fire, the Cross Keys in Craneford parish, St. Julian's in Isleworth parish, and the house of Pettie in Northall parish. In Kent, the King's Barn near Dartford, and Ketbrooke near Blackheath.
SCALDER		A clap. The cull has napped a scalder; the fellow has got a clap.
SCOLD'S CURE		A coffin. The blowen has napped the scold's cure; the bitch is in her coffin.
SHE NAPPER		A woman thief-catcher; also a bawd or pimp.
SLEEPY		Much worn: the cloth of your coat must be extremely sleepy, for it has not had a nap this long time.
SNAP DRAGON		A Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.
SNAP THE GLAZE		To break shop windows or show glasses.
SNAPPERS		Pistols.
SNAPT		Taken, caught.
SPIRIT AWAY		To kidnap, or inveigle away.
STOOP		The pillory. The cull was served for macing and napp'd the stoop; he was convicted of swindling, and put in the pillory.
STOOP-NAPPERS, or OVERSEERS OF THE NEW PAVEMENT		Persons set in the pillory.
TEIZE		To-nap the teize; to receive a whipping.
TWIG		To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, snap asunder, or break off. To twig the darbies; to knock off the irons.
WHIPPER-SNAPPER		A diminutive fellow.
WINDER		Transportation for life. The blowen has napped a winder for a lift; the wench is transported for life for stealing in a shop.