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 SPANISH

 

BRISTOL MILK		A Spanish wine called sherry, much drunk at that place, particularly in the morning.
CAMBRADE		A chamber fellow; a Spanish military term. Soldiers were in that country divided into chambers, five men making a chamber, whence it was generally used to signify companion.
CAMESA		A shirt or shift. SPANISH.
COB		A Spanish dollar.
DONKEY, DONKEY DICK		A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, intitled also the king of Spain's trumpeter.
MUNDUNGUS		Bad or rank tobacco: from mondongo, a Spanish word signifying tripes, or the uncleaned entrails of a beast, full of filth.
POMMEL		To beat: originally confined to beating with the hilt of a sword, the knob being, from its similarity to a small apple, called pomelle; in Spanish it is still called the apple of the sword. As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.
QUIM		The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. A piece's furbelow.
SPADO		A sword. SPANISH.
SPANISH		The spanish; ready money.
SPANISH COIN		Fair words and compliments.
SPANISH FAGGOT		The sun.
SPANISH GOUT		The pox.
SPANISH PADLOCK		A kind of girdle contrived by jealous husbands of that nation, to secure the chastity of their wives.
SPANISH WORM		A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing.
SPANISH, or KING OF SPAIN'S TRUMPETER		An ass when braying.
TOL, or TOLEDO		A sword: from Spanish swords made at Toledo, which place was famous for sword blades of an extraordinary temper.