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 PAP

 

APRIL FOOL		Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April Fool. This is also practised in Scotland under the title of Hunting the Gowke.
BUM FODDER		Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul.
CAPER MERCHANT		A dancing master, or hop mercbant; marchand des capriolles. FRENCH TERM. - To cut papers; to leap or jump in dancing. See HOP MERCHANT.
CAT AND BAGPIPEAN SOCIETY		A society which met at their office in the great western road: in their summons, published in the daily papers, it was added, that the kittens might come with the old cats without being scratched.
CHAUNT		To sing. To publish an account in the newspapers. The kiddey was chaunted for a toby; his examination concerning a highway robbery was published in the papers.
CHOAKING PYE, or COLD PYE		A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a case or tube of paper, setting it on fire, and directing the smoke up the nostrils of the sleeper. See HOWELL'S COTGRAVE.
FLYING PASTY		Shit wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour's wall.
HAWKERS		Licensed itinerant retailers of different commodities, called also pedlars; likewise the sellers of news-papers. Hawking; an effort to spit up the thick phlegm, called OYSTERS: whence it is wit upon record, to ask the person so doing whether he has a licence; a punning allusion to the Act of hawkers and pedlars.
LOP-SIDED		Uneven, having one side larger or heavier than the other: boys' paper kites are often said to be lop-sided.
PANNY		A house. To do a panny: to rob a house. See the Sessions Papers. Probably, panny originally meant the butler's pantry, where the knives and forks, spoons, etc. are usually kept The pigs frisked my panney, and nailed my screws; the officers searched my house, and seized my picklock keys.
PAP		Bread sauce; also the food of infants. His mouth is full of pap; he is still a baby.
PAPER SCULL		A thin-scull'd foolish fellow.
PAPLER		Milk pottage.
PHRASE OF PAPER		Half a quarter of a sheet. See VESSEL, PHYSOG.
POPE		A figure burned annually every fifth of November, in memory of the gunpowder plot, which is said to have been carried on by the papists.
PUBLIC LEDGER		A prostitute: because, like that paper, she is open to all parties.
ROUGH MUSIC		Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, etc. beaten upon and sounded in ludicrous processions.
ROULEAU		A number of guineas, from twenty to fifty or more, wrapped up in paper, for the more ready circulation at gaming-tables: sometimes they are inclosed in ivory boxes, made to hold exactly 20, 50, or 100 guineas.
RUNNING STATIONERS		Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches.
SCRIP		A scrap or slip of paper. The cully freely blotted the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the man freely signed the bond, and gave me forty shillings. - Scrip is also a Change Alley phrase for the last loan or subscription. What does scrip go at for the next rescounters? what does scrip sell for delivered at the next day of settling?
TICK		To run o'tick; take up goods upon trust, to run in debt. Tick; a watch. See SESSIONS PAPERS.
VESSELS OF PAPER		Half a quarter of a sheet.