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APPLE DUMPLIN SHOP		A woman's bosom.
AUTEM MORT		A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
BAGGAGE		Heavy baggage; women and children. Also a familiar epithet for a woman; as, cunning baggage, wanton baggage, etc.
BASTARD		The child of an unmarried woman.
BEAST WITH TWO BACKS		A man and woman in the act of copulation. Shakespeare in Othello.
BEEF		To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. - To be in a man's beef; to wound him with a sword. To be in a woman's beef; to have carnal knowledge of her. Say you bought your beef of me, a jocular request from a butcher to a fat man. implying that he credits the butcher who serves him.
BELLYFULL		A hearty beating, sufficient to make a man yield or give out. A woman with child is also said to have got her belly full.
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."
BITE		A cheat; also a woman's privities. The cull wapt the mort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily.
BLOW THE GROUNSILS		To lie with a woman on the floor.
BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA		A woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern.
BLUE SKIN		A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of the tar brush.
BOB TAIL		A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail; also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bobtail; a mob of all sorts of low people. To shift one's bob; to move off, or go away. To bear a bob; to join in chorus with any singers. Also a term used by the sellers of game, for a partridge.
BORE		A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781.
BOUNCER		A large man or woman; also a great lie.
BREECHES		To wear the breeches; a woman who governs her husband is said to wear the breeches.
BRIM		(Abbreviation of Brimstone.) An abandoned woman; perhaps originally only a passionate or irascible woman, compared to brimstone for its inflammability.
BROTHER STARLING		One who lies with the same woman, that is, builds in the same nest.
BUCKINGER'S BOOT		The monosyllable. Matthew Buckinger was born without hands and legs; notwithstanding which he drew coats of arms very neatly, and could write the Lord's Prayer within the compass of a shilling; he was married to a tall handsome woman, and traversed the country, shewing himself for money.
BUM BOAT		A boat attending ships to retail greens, drams, etc. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's shop.
BUMBO		Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro name for the private parts of a woman.
BUNDLING		A man and woman sleeping in the same bed, he with his small clothes, and she with her petticoats on; an expedient practised in America on a scarcity of beds, where, on such an occasion, husbands and parents frequently permitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters. This custom is now abolished. See Duke of Rochefoucalt's Travels in America.
BURNING SHAME		A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candlestick.
BUSHEL BUBBY		A full breasted woman.
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.
BUTTERED BUN		One lying with a woman that has just lain with another man, is said to have a buttered bun.
BUZZARD		A simple fellow. A blind buzzard: a pur-blind man or woman.
CAMBRIDGE FORTUNE		A wind-mill and a water-mill, used to signify a woman without any but personal endowments.
CAP ACQUAINTANCE		Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting. A woman who endeavours to attract the notice of any particular man, is said to set her cap at him.
CARVEL'S RING		The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring, which, so long as he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a cuckold: waking he found he had got his finger the Lord knows where. See Rabelais, and Prior's versification of the story.
CAT		A common prostitute. An old cat; a cross old woman.
CAT'S FOOT		To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and cat; spoken of married persons who live unhappily together. As many lives as a cat; cats, according to vulgar naturalists, have nine lives, that is one less than a woman. No more chance than a cat in hell without claws; said of one who enters into a dispute or quarrel with one greatly above his match.CAT LAP. Tea, called also scandal broth. See SCANDAL BROTH.
CAT-HEADS		A Woman's breasts. SEA PHRASE.
CATAMARAN		An old scraggy woman; from a kind of float made of spars and yards lashed together, for saving ship-wrecked persons.
CAULIFLOWER		A large white wig, such as is commonly worn by the dignified clergy, and was formerly by physicians. Also the private parts of a woman; the reason for which appellation is given in the following story: A woman, who was giving evidence in a cause wherein it was necessary to express those parts, made use of the term cauliflower; for which the judge on the bench, a peevish old fellow, reproved her, saying she might as well call it artichoke. Not so, my lord, replied she; for an artichoke has a bottom, but a cunt and a cauliflower have none.
CAUTIONS		The four cautions: I. Beware of a woman before. - II. Beware of a horse behind. - III. Beware of a cart side-ways. - IV. Beware of a priest every way.
CHATTER BOX		One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman.
CHICKEN-BREASTED		Said of a woman with scarce any breasts.
CLAPPER		The tongue of a bell, and figuratively of a man or woman.
CLEAVER		One that will cleave; used of a forward or wanton woman.
CLICKET		Copulation of foxes; and thence used, in a canting sense, for that of men and women: as, The cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke; the man and woman are copulating in the ditch.
CLOVEN, CLEAVE, or CLEFT		A term used for a woman who passes for a maid, but is not one.
COCK ALLEY or COCK LANE		The private parts of a woman.
COFFEE HOUSE		A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's cunt; to go in and out and spend nothing.
COMB		To comb one's head; to clapperclaw, or scold any one: a woman who lectures her husband, is said to comb his head. She combed his head with a joint stool; she threw a stool at him.
COME		To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it? To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman.
COMMODE		A woman's head dress.
COMMODITY		A woman's commodity; the private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.
COOLER		A woman.
COOLER		The backside. Kiss my cooler. Kiss my arse. It is principally used to signify a woman's posteriors.
CRINKUM CRANKUM		A woman's commodity. See SPECTATOR.
CROSS PATCH		A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
CROWN OFFICE		The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I fucked a woman with her arse upwards, she was so drunk, that her head lay on the ground.
CRUMMY		Fat, fleshy. A fine crummy dame; a fat woman. He has picked up his crumbs finely of late; he has grown very fat, or rich, of late.
CUCKOLD		The husband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds, however, are Christians, as we learn by the following story: An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved him sharply, saying, 'Sirrah, are not you ashamed to call a dog by a Christian's name ?' To cuckold the parson; to bed with one's wife before she has been churched.
CUNNY-THUMBED		To double one's fist with the thumb inwards, like a woman.
CURTAIN LECTURE		A woman who scolds her husband when in bed, is said to read him a curtain lecture.
DAIRY		A woman's breasts, particularly one that gives suck. She sported her dairy; she pulled out her breast.
DANGLE		To follow a woman without asking the question. Also, to be hanged: I shall see you dangle in the sheriff's picture frame; I shall see you hanging on the gallows.
DAVID'S SOW		As drunk as David's sow; a common saying, which took its rise from the following circumstance: One David Lloyd, a Welchman, who kept an alehouse at Hereford, had a living sow with six legs, which was greatly resorted to by the curious; he had also a wife much addicted to drunkenness, for which he used sometimes to give her due correction. One day David's wife having taken a cup too much, and being fearful of the consequences, turned out the sow, and lay down to sleep herself sober in the stye. A company coming in to see the sow, David ushered them into the stye, exclaiming, there is a sow for you! did any of you ever see such another? all the while supposing the sow had really been there; to which some of the company, seeing the state the woman was in, replied, it was the drunkenest sow they had ever beheld; whence the woman was ever after called David's sow.
DEMY-REP		An abbreviation of demy-reputation; a woman of doubtful character.
DEVIL		A printer's errand-boy. Also a small thread in the king's ropes and cables, whereby they may be distinguished from all others. The Devil himself; a small streak of blue thread in the king's sails. The Devil may dance in his pocket; i.e. he has no money: the cross on our ancient coins being jocularly supposed to prevent him from visiting that place, for fear, as it is said, of breaking his shins against it. To hold a candle to the Devil; to be civil to any one out of fear: in allusion to the story of the old woman, who set a wax taper before the image of St. Michael, and another before the Devil, whom that saint is commonly represented as trampling under his feet: being reproved for paying such honour to Satan, she answered, as it was uncertain which place she should go to, heaven or hell, she chose to secure a friend in both places. That will be when the Devil is blind, and he has not got sore eyes yet; said of any thing unlikely to happen. It rains whilst the sun shines, the Devil is beating his wife with a shoulder of mutton: this phenomenon is also said to denote that cuckolds are going to heaven; on being informed of this, a loving wife cried out with great vehemence, 'Run, husband, run!'The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.a proverb signifying that we are apt to forget promises made in time of distress. To pull the Devil by the tail, to be reduced to one's shifts. The Devil go with you and sixpence, and then you will have both money and company.
DICKY		A woman's under-petticoat. It's all Dicky with him; i.e. it's all over with him.
DIDDEYS		A woman's breasts or bubbies.
DILDO		From the Italian DILETTO, a woman's delight; or from our word DALLY, a thing to play withal. Penis-succedaneus, called in Lombardy Passo Tempo. Bailey.
DISHCLOUT		A dirty, greasy woman. He has made a napkin of his dishclout; a saying of one who has married his cook maid. To pin a dishclout to a man's tail; a punishment often threatened by the female servants in a kitchen, to a man who pries too minutely into the secrets of that place.
DOCK		To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell all the darkmans; the fellow laid with the wench all night. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint. He must go into dock; a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of must undergo a salivation. Docking is also a punishment inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have infected them with the venereal disease; it consists in cutting off all their clothes, petticoats, shift and all, close to their stays, and then turning them into the street.
DODSEY		A woman: perhaps a corruption of Doxey.
DOGGESS, DOG'S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY'S MAMMA		Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
DOLL		Bartholomew doll; a tawdry, over-drest woman, like one of the children's dolls at Bartholomew fair. To mill doll; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other house of correction.
DOODLE SACK		A bagpipe. Dutch. - Also the private parts of a woman.
DOWDY		A coarse, vulgar-looking woman.
DRURY LANE VESTAL		A woman of the town, or prostitute; Drury-lane and its environs were formerly the residence of many of those ladies.
DUGS		A woman's breasts,
DUMB GLUTTON		A woman's privities.
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.
DUNGHILL		A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. See FLINTS.
DUTCHESS		A woman enjoyed with her pattens on, or by a man-in boots, is said to be made a dutchess.
EIGHT EYES		I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a cock-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
ELF		A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman.
EWE		A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, drest lamb fashion; an old woman, drest like a young girl.
FILCH, or FILEL		A beggar's staff, with an iron hook at the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out of a casement. Filcher; the same as angler. Filching cove; a man thief. Filching mort; a woman thief.
FINGER IN EYE		To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a consolatory speech used by sailors to their doxies. It is as great a pity to see a woman cry, as to see a goose walk barefoot; another of the same kind.
FLOURISH		To take a flourish; to enjoy a woman in a hasty manner, to take a flyer. See FLYER.
FLY-BY-NIGHT		You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their meetings, mounted on brooms.
FLYER		To take a flyer; to enjoy a woman with her clothes on, or without going to bed.
FORTUNE HUNTERS		Indigent men, seeking to enrich themselves by marrying a woman of fortune.
FROE, or VROE		A woman, wife, or mistress. Brush to your froe, or bloss, and wheedle for crop; run to your mistress, and sooth and coax her out of some money. DUTCH.
FRUITFUL VINE		A woman's private parts, i.e. that has FLOWERS every month, and bears fruit in nine months.
FUSSOCK		A lazy fat woman. An old fussock; a frowsy old woman.
FUSTY LUGGS		A beastly, sluttish woman.
GARRET ELECTION		A ludicrous ceremony, practised every new parliament: it consists of a mock election of two members to represent the borough of Garret (a few straggling cottages near Wandsworth in Surry); the qualification of a voter is, having enjoyed a woman in the open air within that district: the candidates are commonly fellows of low humour, who dress themselves up in a ridiculous manner. As this brings a prodigious concourse of people to Wandsworth, the publicans of that place jointly contribute to the expence, which is sometimes considerable.
GAWKEY		A tall, thin, awkward young man or woman.
GENTRY MORT		A gentlewoman.
GIBLETS		To join giblets; said of a man and woman who cohabit as husband and wife, without being married; also to copulate.
GIGG		A nose. Snitchel his gigg; fillip his nose. Grunter's gigg; a hog's snout. Gigg is also a high one-horse chaise, and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank; to hamstring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock.
GILFLURT		A proud minks, a vain capricious woman,
GILL		The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively used for woman. Every jack has his gill; i.e. every jack has his gillian, or female mate.
GIMBLET-EYED		Squinting, either in man or woman.
GO BY THE GROUND		A little short person, man or woman.
GOOD WOMAN		A nondescript, represented on a famous sign in St. Giles's, in the form of a common woman. but without a head.
GOOSECAP		A silly fellow or woman.
GORMAGON		A monster with six eyes, three mouths, four arms, eight legs, five live on one side and three on the other, three arses, two arses, and a cunt upon its back; a man on horseback, with a woman behind him.
GREY MARE		The grey mare is the better horse; said of a woman who governs her husband.
GRIND		To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
GUNPOWDER		An old Woman.
GUTS AND GARBAGE		A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels: said of a hard, merciless, unfeeling person.
HAND BASKET PORTION		A woman whose husband receives frequent presents from her father, or family, is said to have a hand-basket portion.
HARP		To harp upon; to dwell upon a subject. Have among you, my blind harpers; an expression used in throwing or shooting at random among the crowd. Harp is also the Irish expression for woman, or tail, used in tossing up in Ireland: from Hibernia, being represented with a harp on the reverse of the copper coins of that country; for which it is, in hoisting the copper, i.e. tossing up, sometimes likewise called music.
HARRIDAN		A hagged old woman; a miserable, scraggy, worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree: derived from the French word HARIDELLE, a worn-out jade of a horse or mare.
HAT		Old hat; a woman's privities: because frequently felt.
HELL CAT		A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See TERMAGANT and VIXEN.
HEN		A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
HEN HOUSE		A house where the woman rules; called also a SHE HOUSE, and HEN FRIGATE: the latter a sea phrase, originally applied to a ship, the captain of which had his wife on board, supposed to command him.
HOG		A shilling. To drive one's hogs; to snore: the noise made by some persons in snoring, being not much unlike the notes of that animal. He has brought his hogs to a fine market; a saying of any one who has been remarkably successful in his affairs, and is spoken ironically to signify the contrary. A hog in armour; an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a hog in armour. To hog a horse's mane; to cut it short, so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog's bristles. Jonian hogs; an appellation given to the members of St. John's College, Cambridge.
HONEST WOMAN		To marry a woman with whom one has cohabitated as a mistress, is termed, making an honest woman of her.
HOP-O-MY-THUMB		A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shoulder, might pick a pea out of her arse.
HORSE GODMOTHER		A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
HUMPTY DUMPTY		A little humpty dumpty man or woman; a short clumsy person of either sex: also ale boiled with brandy.
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.
INNOCENTS		One of the innocents; a weak or simple person, man or woman.
IRISH BEAUTY		A woman with two black eyes.
JILT		A tricking woman, who encourages the addresses of a man whom she means to deceive and abandon.
JILTED		Rejected by a woman who has encouraged one's advances.
JOCK, or JOCKUM CLOY		To enjoy a woman.
JOSEPH		A woman's great coat. Also, a sheepish bashful young fellow: an allusion to Joseph who fled from Potiphar's wife. You are Josephus rex; you are jo-king, ie: joking.
KETTLEDRUMS		Cupid's kettle drums; a woman's breasts, called by sailors chest and bedding.
KNOCK		To knock a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. To knock off; to conclude: phrase borrowed from the blacksmith. To knock under; to submit.
LADY		A crooked or hump-backed woman.
LADY OF EASY VIRTUE		A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute.
LAUNCH		The delivery, or labour, of a pregnant woman; a crying out or groaning.
LEFT-HANDED WIFE		A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his concubine, or a woman greatly his inferior, he gave her his left hand.
LEG		To make a leg; to bow. To give leg-bail and land security; to run away. To fight at the leg; to take unfair advantages: it being held unfair by back-sword players to strike at the leg. To break a leg; a woman who has had a bastard, is said to have broken a leg.
LILIPUTIAN		A diminutive man or woman: from Gulliver's Travels, written by Dean Swift, where an imaginary kingdom of dwarfs of that name is described.
LONG MEG		A jeering name for a very tall woman: from one famous in story, called Long Meg of Westminster.
LUMPING		Great. A lumping penny worth; a great quantity for the money, a bargain. He has'got a lumping penny-worth; frequently said of a man who marries a fat woman.
MADGE		The private parts of a woman.
MALKIN, or MAULKIN		A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman. The cove's so scaly, he'd spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.
MAN TRAP		A woman's commodity.
MELTING MOMENTS		A fat man and woman in the amorous congress.
MINIKIN		A little man or woman: also the smallest sort of pin.
MONOSYLLABLE		A woman's commodity.
MOPSEY		A dowdy, or homely woman.
MORT		A woman or wench; also a yeoman's daughter. To be taken all-a mort; to be confounded, surprised, or motionless through fear.
MUFF		The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of your marriage, girl; a health.
MUNSTER HEIFER		An Irish woman. A woman with thick legs is said to be like a Munster heifer; i.e. beef to the heels.
MUTTON		In her mutton, i.e. having carnal knowledge of a woman.
NEB, or NIB		The bill of a bird, and the slit of a pen. Figuratively, the face and mouth of a woman; as, She holds up her neb: she holds up her mouth to be kissed.
NEGLIGEE		A woman's undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a neggledigee.
NIGGLING		Cutting awkwardly, trifling; also accompanying with a woman.
NOTCH		The private parts of awoman.
NOZZLE		The nose of a man or woman.
OCCUPY		To occupy a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her.
ONE OF US, or ONE OF MY COUSINS		A woman of the town, a harlot.
OVEN		A great mouth; the old woman would never have looked for her daughter in the oven, had she not been there herself.
OWL IN AN IVY BUSH		He looks like an owl in an ivy bush; frequently said of a person with a large frizzled wig, or a woman whose hair is dressed a-la-blowze.
PETTICOAT PENSIONER		One kept by a woman forsecret services.
PIG		Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. To pig together; to lie or sleep together, two or more in a bed. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold. To buy a pig in a poke; to purchase any thing without seeing. Pig's eyes; small eyes. Pigsnyes; the same: a vulgar term of endearment to a woman. He can have boiled pig at home; a mark of being master of his own house: an allusion to a well known poem and story. Brandy is Latin for pig and goose; an apology for drinking a dram after either.
PIGEONS		Sharpers, who, during the drawing of the lottery, wait ready mounted near Guildhall, and, as soon as the first two or three numbers are drawn, which they receive from a confederate on a card, ride with them full speed to some distant insurance office, before fixed on, where there is another of the gang, commonly a decent looking woman, who takes care to be at the office before the hour of drawing: to her he secretly gives the number, which she insures for a considerable sum: thus biting the biter.
PIN MONEY		An allowance settled on a married woman for her pocket expences.
PITCHER		The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.
POMPKIN		A man or woman of Boston in America: from, the number of pompkins raised and eaten by the people of that country. Pompkinshire; Boston and its dependencies.
PRAY		She prays with her knees upwards; said of a woman much given to gallantry and intrigue. At her last prayers; saying of an old maid.
PRIGGING		Riding; also lying with a woman.
PRINCOD		A pincushion. SCOTCH - Also a round plump man or woman.
QUAIL-PIPE		A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots; boots resembling a quail pipe, from the number of plaits; they were much worn in the reign of Charles II.
QUEAN		A slut, or worthless woman, a strumpet.
QUIM		The private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn. A piece's furbelow.
RAILS		See HEAD RAILS. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husband.
RAMMISH		Rank. Rammish woman; a sturdy virago.
RANTIPOLE		A rude romping boy or girl; also a gadabout dissipated woman. To ride rantipole; the same as riding St. George. See ST. GEORGE.
RASCAL		A rogue or villain: a term borrowed from the chase; a rascal originally meaning a lean shabby deer, at the time of changing his horns, penis, etc. whence, in the vulgar acceptation, rascal is conceived to signify a man without genitals: the regular vulgar answer to this reproach, if uttered by a woman, is the offer of an ocular demonstration of the virility of the party so defamed. Some derive it from RASCAGLIONE, an Italian word signifying a man. without testicles, or an eunuch.
RAT		A drunken man or woman taken up by the watch, and confined in the, watch-house. To smell a rat; to suspect some intended trick, or unfair design.
RATTLE-PATE		A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman.
RELISH		Carnal connection with a woman.
REP		A woman of reputation.
RIDING SKIMMINGTON		A ludicrous cavalcade, in ridicule of a man beaten by his wife. It consists of a man riding behind a woman, with his face to the horse's tail, holding a distaff in his hand, at which he seems to work, the woman all the while beating him with a ladle; a smock displayed on a staff is carried before them as an emblematical standard, denoting female superiority: they are accompanied by what is called the ROUGH MUSIC, that is, frying-pans, bulls horns, marrow-bones and cleavers, etc. A procession of this kind is admirably described by Butler in his Hudibras. He rode private, i.e. was a private trooper.
RIDING ST GEORGE		The woman uppermost in the amorous congress, that is, the dragon upon St. George. This is said to be the way to get a bishop.
ROOM		She lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
RUM TOPPING		A rich commode, or woman's head-dress.
RUNT		A short squat man or woman: from the small cattle called Welsh runts.
RUSHERS		Thieves who knock at the doors of great houses in London, in summer time, when the families are gone out of town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rush in and rob the house; also housebreakers who enter lone houses by force.
SANDY PATE		A red haired man or woman.
SCAB		A worthless man or woman.
SCREW JAWS		A wry-mouthed man or woman.
SCUT		The tail of a hare or rabbit; also that of a woman.
SEVEN-SIDED ANIMAL		A one-eyed man or woman, each having a right side and a left side, a fore side and a back side, an outside, an inside, and a blind side.
SHAG		To copulate. He is but bad shag; he is no able woman's man.
SHE NAPPER		A woman thief-catcher; also a bawd or pimp.
SHEEP'S HEAD		Like a sheep's head, all jaw; saying of a talkative man or woman.
SKIN FLINT		An avaricious man or woman,
SLATTERN		A woman sluttishly negligent in her dress.
SLICE		To take a slice; to intrigue, particularly with a married woman, because a slice off a cut loaf is not missed.
SMICKET		A smock, or woman's shift.
SORRY		Vile, mean, worthless. A sorry fellow, or hussy; a worthless man or woman.
SOW		A fat woman. He has got the wrong sow by the ear, he mistakes his man. Drunk as David's sow; see DAVID'S SOW.
SQUAB		A fat man or woman: from their likeness to a well-stuffed couch, called also a squab. A new-hatched chicken.
SQUINT-A-PIPES		A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once.
STITCH		A nick name for a taylor: also a term for lying with a woman.
STRAPPER		A large man or woman.
STRAPPING		Lying with a woman.
STRAW		A good woman in the straw; a lying-in woman. His eyes draw straw; his eyes are almost shut, or he is almost asleep: one eye draws straw, and t'other serves the thatcher.
STROKE		To take a stroke: to take a bout with a woman.
STRUM		To have carnal knowledge of a woman; also to play badly on the harpsichord; or any other stringed instrument. A strummer of wire, a player on any instrument strung with wire.
TAWDRY		Garish, gawdy, with lace or staring and discordant colours: a term said to be derived from the shrine and altar of St. Audrey (an Isle of Ely saintess), which for finery exceeded all others thereabouts, so as to become proverbial; whence any fine dressed man or woman said to be all St Audrey, and by contraction, all tawdry.
TENANT FOR LIFE		A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life.
TERMAGANT		An outrageous scold from Termagantes, a cruel Pagan, formerly represented in diners shows and entertainments, where being dressed a la Turque, in long clothes, he was mistaken for a furious woman.
TO TIP		To give or lend. Tip me your daddle; give me your hand. Tip me a hog; give me a shilling. To tip the lion; to flatten a man's nose with the thumb, and, at the same time to extend his mouth, with the fingers, thereby giving him a sort of lion-like countenauce. To tip the velvet; tonguing woman. To tip all nine; to knock down all the nine pins at once, at the game of bows or skittles: tipping, at these gaines, is slightly touching the tops of the pins with the bowl. Tip; a draught; don't spoil his tip.
TO WAP		To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TO WAP		To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TOAD EATER		A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standing butt, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off, and all ill humours vented. This appellation is derived from a mountebank's servant, on whom all experiments used to be made in public by the doctor, his master; among which was the eating of toads, formerly supposed poisonous. Swallowing toads is here figuratively meant for swallowing or putting up with insults, as disagreeable to a person of feeling as toads to the stomach.
TOAST		A health; also a beautiful woman whose health is often drank by men. The origin of this term (as it is said) was this: a beautiful lady bathing in a cold bath, one of her admirers out of gallantry drank some of the water: whereupon another of her lovers observed, he never drank in the morning, but he would kiss the toast, and immediately saluted the lady.
TOLLIBAN RIG		A species of cheat carried on by a woman, assuming the character of a dumb and deaf conjuror.
TOUCH		To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in the head; insane, crazy. To touch up a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards, according to the vulgar law, may be pinched by any of the company till he has touched bone (i.e. his teeth) and whistled.
TOWN		A woman of the town; a prostitute. To be on the town: to live by prostitution.
TRAPES		A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
TRAVELLING PIQUET		A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation: A parson riding a grey horse, witholue furniture; game. An old woman under a hedge; ditto. A cat looking out of a window; 60. A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40. A man with a woman behind him; 30. A flock of sheep; 20. A flock of geese; 10. A post chaise; 5. A horseman; 2. A man or woman walking; 1.
TROLLOP		A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
TROT		An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
TUP		To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
TWO-HANDED		Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
VALENTINE		The first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman, on St. Valentine's day, the 14th of February, when it is said every bird chuses his mate for the ensuing year.
VAN-NECK		Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
VELVET		To tip the velvet; to put one's tongue into a woman's mouth. To be upon velvet; to have the best of a bet or match. To the little gentleman in velvet, ie: the mole that threw up the hill that caused Crop (King William's horse) to stumble; a toast frequently drank by the tories and catholics in Ireland.
WAGTAIL		A lewd woman.
WARE		A woman's ware; her commodity.
WATER-MILL		A woman's private parts.
WHAPPER		A large man or woman.
WHITE SWELLING		A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
WIDOW'S WEEDS		Mourning clothes of a peculiar fashion, denoting her state. A grass widow; a discarded mistress. a widow bewitched; a woman whose husband is abroad, and said, but not certainly known, to be dead.
WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND		A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband.
WOMAN OF ALL WORK		Sometimes applied to a female servant, who refuses none of her master's commands.
WOMAN OF THE TOWN, or WOMAN OF PLEASURE		A prostitute.
WOMAN'S CONSCIENCE		Never satisfied.
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.