Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
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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 GEE

 

BARGEES  Barge-men on the river.
 
CAGG MAGGS  Old Lincolnshire geese, which having been plucked ten or twelve years, are sent up to London to feast the cockneys.
 
GEE  It won't gee; it won't hit or do, it does not suit or fit.
 
GYPSIES  A set of vagrants, who, to the great disgrace of our police, are suffered to wander about the country. They pretend that they derive their origin from the ancient Egyptians, who were famous for their knowledge in astronomy and other sciences; and, under the pretence of fortune-telling, find means to rob or defraud the ignorant and superstitious. To colour their impostures, they artificially discolour their faces, and speak a kind of gibberish peculiar to themselves. They rove up and down the country in large companies, to the great terror of the farmers, from whose geese, turkeys, and fowls, they take very considerable contributions.
 
HOBBLEDYGEE  A pace between a walk and a run, a dog-trot.
 
NEGLIGEE  A woman's undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a neggledigee.
 
SWANNERY  He keeps a swannery; i.e. all his geese are swans.
 
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.
 
WILD-GOOSE CHASE  A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy.