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 TROLL

 

BURN THE KEN		Strollers living in an alehouse without paying their quarters, are said to burn the ken.
PATRICO, or PATER-COVE		The fifteenth rank of the canting tribe; strolling priests that marry people under a hedge, without gospel or common prayer book: the couple standing on each side of a dead beast, are bid to live together till death them does part; so shaking hands, the wedding is ended. Also any minister or parson.
QUEER CHECKERS		Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of people in the house.
SPOUTING CLUB		A meeting of apprentices and mechanics to rehearse different characters in plays: thus forming recruits for the strolling companies.
STROLLERS		Itinerants of different kinds. Strolling morts; beggars or pedlars pretending to be widows.
TROLL		To loiter or saunter about.
TROLLOP		A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
TROLLY LOLLY		Coarse lace once much in fashion.
WOLF IN THE BREAST		An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have the knack of counterfeiting extreme pain, pretending to have a small animal called a wolf in their breasts, which is continually gnawing them.