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 WHORE

 

BAT		A low whore: so called from moving out like bats in the dusk of the evening.
BITCH		A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may he gathered from the regular Billinsgate or St. Giles's answer - "I may be a whore, but can't be a bitch."
BLOWEN		A mistress or whore of a gentleman of the scamp. The blowen kidded the swell into a snoozing ken, and shook him of his dummee and thimble; the girl inveigled the gentleman into a brothel and robbed him of his pocket book and watch.
BRISTOL MAN		The son of an Irish thief and a Welch whore.
BULL		A blunder; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henery VII. by a bull is now always meant a blunder made by an Irishman. A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great whore-master.
BUNTER		A low dirty prostitute, half whore and half beggar.
BUTTOCK		A whore.
BUTTOCK AND FILE		A common whore and a pick-pocket.
BUTTOCK AND TWANG, or DOWN BUTTOCK AND SHAM FILE		A common whore, but no pickpocket.
CATTLE		Sad cattle: whores or gypsies. Black cattle, bugs.
CLOSE		As close as God's curse to a whore's arse: close as shirt and shitten arse.
COVEY		A collection of whores. What a fine covey here is, if the Devil would but throw his net!
CRACK		A whore.
DEMURE		As demure as an old whore at a christening.
DOXIES		She beggars, wenches, whores.
DRAB		A nasty, sluttish whore.
FLASH MAN		A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
GAME		Bubbles or pigeons drawn in to be cheated. Also, at bawdy-houses, lewd women. Mother have you any game; mother, have you any girls? To die game; to suffer at the gallows without shewing any signs of fear or repentance. Game pullet; a young whore, or forward girl in the way of becoming one.
GAP STOPPER		A whoremaster.
HEDGE WHORE		An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the wayside, under a hedge; a low beggarly prostitute.
JACK WHORE		A large masculine overgrown wench.
MADAM RAN		A whore.
MERRY ARSE CHRISTIAN		A whore.
MOLL		A whore.
PRICK-EARED		A prick-eared fellow; one whose ears are longer than his hair: an appellation frequently given to puritans, who considered long hair as the mark of the whore of Babylon.
PUNK		A whore; also a soldier's trull. See TRULL.
SOCKET MONEY		A whore's fee, or hire: also money paid for a treat, by a married man caught in an intrigue.
STAR GAZER		A horse who throws up his head; also a hedge whore.
TOWN BULL		A common whoremaster. To roar like a town bull; to cry or bellow aloud.
TRUMPERY		An old whore, or goods of no value; rubbish.
WESTMINSTER WEDDING		A match between a whore and a rogue.
WHORE PIPE		The penis.
WHORE'S BIRD		A debauched fellow, the largest of all birds. He sings more like a whore's bird than a canary bird; said of one who has a strong manly voice.
WHORE'S CURSE		A piece of gold coin, value five shillings and three pence, frequently given to women of the town by such as professed always to give gold, and who before the introduction of those pieces always gave half a guinea.
WHORE'S KITLING, or WHORE'S SON		A bastard.
WHORE-MONGER		A man that keeps more than one mistress. A country gentleman, who kept a female friend, being reproved by the parson of the parish, and styled a whore-monger, asked the parson whether he had a cheese in his house; and being answered in the affirmative, 'Pray,' says he, 'does that one cheese make you a cheese-monger?'
WRINKLE		A wrinkle-bellied whore; one who has had a number of bastards: child-bearing leaves wrinkles in a woman's belly. To take the wrinkles out of any one's belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal. You have one wrinkle more in your arse; i.e. you have one piece of knowledge more than you had, every fresh piece of knowledge being supposed by the vulgar naturalists to add a wrinkle to that part.