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 CULLY

 

BLEEDING CULLY		One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely.
CAT MATCH		When a rook or cully is engaged amongst bad bowlers.
CULLY		A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead.
DARK CULLY		A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.
FLOGGING CULLY		A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one.
FOOLISH		An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man. Is he foolish or flash?
HEAD CULLY OF THE PASS, or PASSAGE BANK		The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from all the pass banks in the camp.
KEEPING CULLY		One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public.
NUTS		Fond; pleased. She's nuts upon her cull; she's pleased with her cully. The cove's nutting the blowen; the man is trying to please the girl.
RIDGE		A guinea. Ridge cully; a goldsmith.
SCRIP		A scrap or slip of paper. The cully freely blotted the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the man freely signed the bond, and gave me forty shillings. - Scrip is also a Change Alley phrase for the last loan or subscription. What does scrip go at for the next rescounters? what does scrip sell for delivered at the next day of settling?
WITCHES		Silver. Witcher bubber; a silver bowl. Witcher tilter; a silver-hilted sword. Witcher cully; a silversmith.