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 PATE

 

ADDLE PATE		An inconsiderate foolish fellow.
CARROTTY-PATED		Ginger-hackled, red-haired. See GINGER-HACKLED.
CLOD PATE		A dull, heavy booby.
FRATERS		Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs, for hospitals, fires, inundations, etc.
GINGER-PATED, or GINGER-HACKLED		Red haired: a term borrowed from the cockpit, where red cocks are called gingers,
KILL CARE CLUB		The members of this club, styled also the Sons of Sound Sense and Satisfaction, met at their fortress, the Castle-tavern, in Paternoster-row.
PATE		The head. Carroty-pated; red-haired.
PATRICO, or PATER-COVE		The fifteenth rank of the canting tribe; strolling priests that marry people under a hedge, without gospel or common prayer book: the couple standing on each side of a dead beast, are bid to live together till death them does part; so shaking hands, the wedding is ended. Also any minister or parson.
POISONED		Big with child: that wench is poisoned, see how her belly is swelled. Poison-pated: red-haired.
RANTIPOLE		A rude romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. To ride rantipole; the same as riding St. George. See ST. GEORGE.
RATTLE-PATE		A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman.
SANDY PATE		A red haired man or woman.
SHALLOW PATE		A simple fellow.
SIZAR		Formerly students who came to Cambridge University for purposes of study and emolument. But at present they are just as gay and dissipated as their fellow collegians. About fifty years ago they were on a footing with the servitors at Oxford, but by the exertions of the present Bishop of Llandaff, who was himself a sizar, they were absolved from all marks of inferiority or of degradation. The chief difference at present between them and the pensioners, consists in the less amount of their college fees. The saving thus made induces many extravagant fellows to become sizars, that they may have more money to lavish on their dogs, pieces, etc.
SORREL		A yellowish red. Sorrel pate; one having red hair.
TURNIP-PATED		White or fair-haired.