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 THICK

 

BEETLE-BROWED		One having thick projecting eyebrows.
CHUCKLE-HEADED		Stupid, thick-headed.
CONTENT		A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made of milk and gingerbread.
DUMPLIN		A short thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin; a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a favourite kind of food in that county.
HASTY PUDDING		Oatmeal and milk boiled to a moderate thickness, and eaten with sugar and butter. Figuratively, a wet, muddy road: as, The way through Wandsworth is quite a hasty pudding. To eat hot hasty pudding for a laced hat, or some other prize, is a common feat at wakes and fairs.
HAWKERS		Licensed itinerant retailers of different commodities, called also pedlars; likewise the sellers of news-papers. Hawking; an effort to spit up the thick phlegm, called OYSTERS: whence it is wit upon record, to ask the person so doing whether he has a licence; a punning allusion to the Act of hawkers and pedlars.
HUBBLE-BUBBLE		Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. Also an instrument used for smoaking through water in the East Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.
HUM DURGEON		An imaginary illness. He has got the humdurgeon, the thickest part of his thigh is nearest his arse; i.e. nothing ails him except low spirits.
IRISH LEGS		Thick legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards.
JABBER		To talk thick and fast, as great praters usually do, to chatter like a magpye; also to speak a foreign language. He jabbered to rne in his damned outlandish parlez vous, but I could not understand him; he chattered to me in French, or some other foreign language, but I could not understand him.
MUD		A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG.
MUNSTER HEIFER		An Irish woman. A woman with thick legs is said to be like a Munster heifer; i.e. beef to the heels.
OYSTER		A gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive man.
RIBBIN		Money. The ribbin runs thick; i.e. there is plenty of money. Blue ribbin. Gin. The cull lushes the blue ribbin; the silly fellow drinks common gin.
TAPLASH		Thick and bad beer.
THICK		Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers.
UNTRUSS		To untruss a point; to let down one's breeches in order to ease one's self. Breeches were formerly tied with points, which till lately were distributed to the boys every Whit Monday by the churchwardens of most of the parishes in London, under the denomination of tags: these tags were worsteds of different colours twisted up to a size somewhat thicker than packthread, and tagged at both ends with tin. Laces were at the same given to the girls.
WASH		Paint for the face, or cosmetic water. Hog-wash; thick and bad beer.