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 REVERENCE

 

LUCK, or GOOD LUCK		To tread in a surreverence, to be bewrayed: an allusion to the proverb, Shitten luck is good luck.
PILGRIM'S SALVE		A sirreverence, human excrement.
REVERENCE		An ancient custom, which obliges any person easing himself near the highway or foot-path, on the word REVERENCE being given him by a passenger, to take off his hat with his teeth, and without moving from his station to throw it over his head, by which it frequently falls into the excrement; this was considered as a punishment for the breach of delicacy, A person refusing to obey this law, might be pushed backwards. Hence, perhaps, the term, SIR-REVERENCE.
SIR REVERENCE		Human excrement, a turd.
TANTADLIN TART		A sirreverence, human excrement.