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 SHAKE

 

ALL-A-MORT		Struck dumb, confounded. What, sweet one, all-a-mort? SHAKESPEARE.
BEAST WITH TWO BACKS		A man and woman in the act of copulation. Shakespeare in Othello.
ELBOW SHAKER		A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice.
FAMGRASP		To shake bands: figuratively, to agree or make up a difference. Famgrasp the cove; shake hands with the fellow.
JERRYCUMMUMBLE		To shake, towzle, or tumble about.
JEW'S EYE		That's worth a Jew's eye; a pleasant or agreeable sight: a saying taken from Shakespeare.
MAWLEY		A hand. Tip us your mawley; shake hands. with me. Fam the mawley; shake hands.
PICKT HATCH		To go to the manor of pickt hatch, a cant name for some part of the town noted for bawdy houses in Shakespeare's time, and used by him in that sense.
ROMP		A forward wanton girl, a tomrig. Grey, in his notes to Shakespeare, derives it from arompo, an animal found in South Guinea, that is a man eater. See HOYDEN.
SHAG-BAG, or SHAKE-BAG		A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
SHAKE		To draw any thing from the pocket. He shook the swell of his fogle; he robbed the gentleman of his silk handkerchief.
SHAKE		To shake one's elbow; to game with dice. To shake a cloth in the wind; to be hanged in chains.
SIR JOHN		The old title for a country parson: as Sir John of Wrotham, mentioned by Shakespeare.
TAYLOR		Nine taylors make a man; an ancient and common saying, originating from the effeminacy of their employment; or, as some have it, from nine taylors having been robbed by one man; according to others, from the speech of a woollendraper, meaning that the custom of nine, taylors would make or enrich one man - A London taylor, rated to furnish half a man to the Trained Bands, asking how that could possibly be done? was answered, By sending four, journeymen and and apprentice. - Put a taylor, a weaver, and a miller into a sack, shake them well, And the first that puts out his head is certainly a thief. - A taylor is frequently styled pricklouse, assaults on those vermin with their needles.
TROTTERS		Feet. To shake one's trotters at Bilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps the Bilboes ball, i.e. the ball of fetters: fetters and stocks were anciently called the bilboes.