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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QUACK		An ungraduated ignorant pretender to skill in physic, a vender of nostrums.
QUACK-SALVER		A mountebank: a seller of salves.
QUACKING CHEAT		A duck.
QUAG		Abbreviation of quagmire; marshy moorish around.
QUAIL-PIPE		A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots; boots resembling a quail pipe, from the number of plaits; they were much worn in the reign of Charles II.
QUAKERS		A religious sect so called from their agitations in preaching.
QUAKING CHEAT		A calf or sheep.
QUANDARY		To be in a quandary: to be puzzled. Also one so over-gorged, as to be doubtful which he should do first, sh - e or spew. Some derive the term quandary from the French phrase qu'en dirai je? what shall I say of it? others from an Italian word signifying a conjuror's circle.
QUARREL-PICKER		A glazier: from the small squares in casements, called CARREUX, vulgarly quarrels.
QUARROMES, or QUARRON		A body.
QUARTERED		Divided into four parts; to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, is the sentence on traitors and rebels. Persons receiving part of the salary of an office from the holder of it, by virtue of an agreement with the donor, are said to be quartered on him. Soldiers billetted on a publican are likewise said to be quartered on him.
QUASH		To suppress, annul or overthrow; vulgarly pronounced squash: they squashed the indictment.
QUEAN		A slut, or worthless woman, a strumpet.
QUEEN DICK		To the tune of the life and death of Queen Dick. That happened in the reign of Queen Dick; i.e., never.
QUEEN STREET		A mart governed by his wife, is said to live in Queen street, or at the sign of the Queen's Head.
QUEER		To puzzle or confound. I have queered the old full bottom; i.e. I have puzzled the judge. To queer one's ogles among bruisers; to darken one's day lights.
QUEER AS DICK'S HATBAND		Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
QUEER BAIL		Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew bail, from that branch of business being chiefly carried on by the sons of Judah. The lowest sort of these, who borrow or hire clothes to appear in, are called Mounters, from their mounting particular dresses suitable to the occasion.
QUEER BIRDS		Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade.
QUEER BIT-MAKERS		Coiners.
QUEER BITCH		An odd, out-of-the-way fellow.
QUEER BLUFFER		The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper.
QUEER BUNG		An empty purse.
QUEER CHECKERS		Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of people in the house.
QUEER COLE FENCER		A putter off, or utterer, of bad money.
QUEER COLE MAKER		A maker of bad money.
QUEER COVE		A rogue.
QUEER CUFFIN		A justice of the peace; also a churl.
QUEER DEGEN		An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted.
QUEER KEN		A prison.
QUEER KICKS		A bad pair of breeches.
QUEER MORT		A diseased strumpet.
QUEER NAB		A felt hat, or other bad hat.
QUEER PLUNGERS		Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned persons, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
QUEER PRANCER		A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
QUEER ROOSTER		An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night cellars.
QUEER STREET		Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wrong or different to our wish.
QUEER WEDGES		Large buckles.
QUEER, or QUIRE		Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fellow looks. It also means odd, uncommon.
QUIBBLE		To make subtle distinctions; also to play upon words.
QUICK AND NIMBLE		More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or errand that requires dispatch.
QUID		The quantity of tobacco put into the mouth at one time. To quid tobacco; to chew tobacco. Quid est hoc? hoc est quid; a guinea. Half a quid; half a guinea. The swell tipped me fifty quid for the prad; the gentleman gave fifty pounds for the horse.
QUIDNUNC		A politician: from a character of that name in the farce of the Upholsterer.
QUIDS		Cash, money. Can you tip me any quids? can you lend me some money?
QUIFFING		Rogering. See TO ROGER.
QUILL		An author.
QUILL DRIVER		A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer.
QUIM		The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. A piece's furbelow.
QUINSEY		Choked by a hempen quinsey; hanged.
QUIPPS		Girds, taunts, jests.
QUIRE, or CHOIR BIRD		A complete rogue, one that has sung in different choirs or cages, i.e. gaols.
QUIRKS AND QUILLETS		Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
QUITAM		Aquitam horse; one that will both carry and draw. LAW WIT.
QUIZ		A strange-looking fellow, an odd dog.
QUOD		Newgate, or any other prison. The dab's in quod; the poor rogue is in prison.
QUOTA		Snack, share, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip me my quota; give me part of the winnings, booty, or plunder.