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 SLAT

 

BLOOD MONEY		The reward given by the legislature on the conviction of highwaymen, burglars, etc.
BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA		A woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern.
COBBLER		A mender of shoes, an improver of the understandings of his customers; a translator.
COCK YOUR EYE		Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin. - Gallus tuus ego.
DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL		One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern.
KINCHIN		A little child. Kinchin coes; orphan beggar boys, educated in thieving. Kinchin morts; young girls under the like circumstances and training. Kinchin morts, or coes in slates; beggars' children carried at their mother's backs in sheets. Kinchin cove; a little man.
LOONSLATE		Thirteen pence halfpenny.
MAWKES		A vulgar slattern.
SAD DOG		A wicked debauched fellow; one of the ancient family of the sad dogs. Swift translates it into Latin by the words TRISTIS CANIS.
SLAT		Half a crown.
SLATE		A sheet.
SLATER'S PAN		The gaol at Kingston in Jamaica: Slater is the deputy Provost-marshal.
SLATTERN		A woman sluttishly negligent in her dress.
TRANSLATORS		Sellers of old mended shoes and boots, between coblers and shoemakers.
TRAPES		A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.