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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YAFFLING		Eating.
YAM		To eat or stuff heartily.
YANKEY, or YANKEY DOODLE		A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American.
YARMOUTH CAPON		A red herring: Yarmouth is a famous place for curing herrings.
YARMOUTH COACH		A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car.
YARMOUTH PYE		A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king.
YARUM		Milk.
YEA AND NAY MAN		A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no.
YELLOW		To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and finding me with his wife, he began to look confounded blue, and was, I thought, a little yellow.
YELLOW BELLY		A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
YELLOW BOYS		Guineas.
YELP		To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions.
YEST		A contraction of yesterday.
YOKED		Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term.
YORKSHIRE TYKE		A Yorkshire clown. To come Yorkshire over any one; to cheat him.
YOUNG ONE		A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one?
YOWL		To cry aloud, or howl.