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 SLUG

 

To cant; to toss or throw: as, Cant a slug into y		SEA WIT.
BLUNDERBUSS		A short gun, with a wide bore, for carrying slugs; also a stupid, blundering fellow.
COLD PIG		To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes from them, and throwing cold water upon them.
DULL SWIFT		A stupid, sluggish fellow, one long going on an errand.
FIRE A SLUG		To drink a dram.
POLE		He is like a rope-dancer's polo, lead at both ends; a saying of a stupid sluggish fellow.
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.
SLUG		A piece of lead of any shape, to be fired from a blunderbuss. To fire a slug; to drink a dram.
SLUG-A-BED		A drone, one that cannot rise in the morning.