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 TROT

 

BOG TROTTER		An Irishman; Ireland being famous for its large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts of that kingdom.
BONESETTER		A hard-trotting horse.
BUTTER AND EGGS TROT		A kind of short jogg trot, such as is used by women going to market, with butter and eggs. - he looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth, yet I warrant you cheese would not choak her; a saying of a demure looking woman, of suspected character. Don't make butter dear; a gird at the patient angler.
GANG		A company of men, a body of sailors, a knot of thieves, pickpockets, etc. A gang of sheep trotters; the four feet of a sheep.
HOBBLEDYGEE		A pace between a walk and a run, a dog-trot.
JOGG-TROT		To keep on a jogg-trot; to get on with a slow but regular pace.
SPANK		To run neatly along, beteeen a trot and gallop. The tits spanked it to town; the horses went merrily along all the way to town.
TROT		An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
TROTTERS		Feet. To shake one's trotters at Bilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps the Bilboes ball, i.e. the ball of fetters: fetters and stocks were anciently called the bilboes.