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 BOB

 

BOB		A shoplifter's assistant, or one that receives and carries off stolen goods. All is bob; all is safe.
BOB		A shilling.
BOB STAY		A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard.
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.
BOBBED		Cheated, tricked, disappointed.
BOBBISH		Smart, clever, spruce.
CASE		A house; perhaps from the Italian CASA. In the canting lingo it meant store or ware house, as well as a dwelling house. Tout that case; mark or observe that house. It is all bob, now let's dub the gig of the case; now the coast is clear, let us break open the door of the house.
CHICKEN NABOB		One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a diminutive nabob: a term borrowed from the chicken turtle.
CULL		A man, honest or otherwise. A bob cull; a good- natured, quiet fellow.
DRY BOB		A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
GINGAMBOBS		Toys, bawbles; also a man's privities. See THINGAMBOBS.
HICKENBOTHOM		Mr. Hickenbothom; a ludicrous name for an unknown person, similar to that of Mr. Thingambob. Hickenbothom, i.e. a corruption of the German word ickenbaum, i.e. oak tree.
JAZEY		A bob wig.
KEN		A house. A bob ken, or a bowman ken; a well-furnished house, also a house that harbours thieves. Biting the ken; robbing the house.
LIGHT BOB		A soldier of the light infantry company.
RIFF RAFF		Low vulgar persons, mob, tag-rag and bob-tail.
RUM BOB		A young apprentice; also a sharp trick.
SCUM		The riff-raff, tag-rag, and bob-tail, or lowest order of people.
STAGGERING BOB, WITH HIS YELLOW PUMPS		A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are yellow.
TAG-RAG AND BOBTAIL		An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like a tantony pig: to follow one wherever one goes, just as St. Anthony is followed by his pig.
THINGUMBOB		Mr. Thingumbob; a vulgar address or nomination to any person whose name is unknown, the same as Mr. What-d'ye-cal'em. Thingumbobs; testicles.