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 RASCAL

 

BLOODY		A favourite word used by the thieves in swearing, as bloody eyes, bloody rascal.
BUGGER		A blackguard, a rascal, a term of reproach. Mill the bloody bugger; beat the damned rascal.
DAMBER		A rascal. See DIMBER.
RASCAL		A rogue or villain: a term borrowed from the chase; a rascal originally meaning a lean shabby deer, at the time of changing his horns, penis, etc. whence, in the vulgar acceptation, rascal is conceived to signify a man without genitals: the regular vulgar answer to this reproach, if uttered by a woman, is the offer of an ocular demonstration of the virility of the party so defamed. Some derive it from RASCAGLIONE, an Italian word signifying a man. without testicles, or an eunuch.
ROAST		To arrest. I'll roast the dab; I'll arrest the rascal. - Also to jeer, ridicule, or banter. He stood the roast; he was the butt. - Roast meat clothes; Sunday or holiday-clothes. To cry roast meat; to boast of one's situation. To rule the roast; to be master or paramount.
VARLETS		Now rogues and rascals, formerly yeoman's servants.
WRAP RASCAL		A red cloak, called also a roquelaire.