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 FART

 

ANGLING FOR FARTHINGS		Begging out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
CACKLING FARTS		Eggs.
CATCH FART		A footboy; so called from such servants commonly following close behind their master or mistress.
CHEESER		A strong smelling fart.
CHUCK FARTHING		A parish clerk.
CRACKER		Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches.
DAM		A small Indian coin, mentioned in the Gentoo code of laws: hence etymologists may, if they please, derive the common expression, I do not care a dam, i.e. I do not care half a farthing for it.
FADGE		It won't fadge; it won't do. A farthing.
FART		He has let a brewer's fart, grains and all; said of one who has bewrayed his breeches. Piss and fart. Sound at heart. Mingere cum bumbis, Res saluberrima est lumbis. I dare not trust my arse with a fart: said by a person troubled with a looseness.
FART CATCHER		A valet or footman from his walking behind his master or mistress.
FARTING CRACKERS		Breeches.
FARTLEBERRIES		Excrement hanging about the anus.
GIFTS		Small white specks under the finger nails, said to portend gifts or presents. A stingy man is said to be as full of gifts as a brazen horse of his farts.
GRIG		A farthing. A merry grig; a fellow as merry as a grig: an allusion to the apparent liveliness of a grig, or young eel.
JACK		A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots.
MEDLAR		A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a turd, and then it is not worth a fart.
MUSIC		The watch-word among highwaymen, signifying the person is a friend, and must pass unmolested. Music is also an Irish term, in tossing up, to express the harp side, or reverse, of a farthing or halfpenny, opposed to the head.
RAG		A farthing.
ROUND MOUTH		The fundament. Brother round mouth, speaks; he has let a fart.
SCOTCH WARMING PAN		A wench; also a fart.
SCROPE		A farthing.