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 SQUIRREL

 

GROUND SQUIRREL		A hog, or pig. SEA TERM.
HUNTING THE SQUIRREL		An amusement practised by postboys and stage-coachmen, which consists in following a one-horse chaise, anddriving it before them, passing close to it, so as to brush the wheel, and by other means terrifying any woman or person that may be in it. A man whose turn comes for him to drink, before he has emptied his former glass, is said to be hunted.
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.
SQUIRREL		A prostitute: because she like that animal, covers her back with her tail. Meretrix corpore corpus alit. Menagiana, ii. 128.
SQUIRREL HUNTING		See HUNTING.