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 NIP

 

BOUNG NIPPER		A cut purse. - Formerly purses were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut.
FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER		A pick pocket. To file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to jostle the person they intend to rob, and push him against the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives'the booty to the adam tiler, who scours off with it.
JUNIPER LECTURE		A round scolding bout.
KIDDY NIPPERS		Taylors out of work, who cut off the waistcoat pockets of their brethren, when cross-legged on their board, thereby grabbling their bit.
NIP		A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse.
NIP CHEESE		A nick name for the purser of a ship: from those gentlemen being supposed sometimes to nip, or diminish, the allowance of the seamen, in that and every other article. It is also applied to stingy persons in general.
NIPPERKIN		A small measure.
NIPPS		The sheers used in clipping money.
NYP, or NIP		A half pint, a nip of ale: whence the nipperkin, a small vessel.
SMASH		Leg of mutton and smash: a leg of mutton and mashed turnips. SEA TERM.
SNIP		A taylor.
TURNIP-PATED		White or fair-haired.