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 GRIN

 

BASKET		An exclamation frequently made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or unable to pay their losings, are adjudged by that respectable assembly to be put into a basket suspended over the pit, there to remain during that day's diversion: on the least demur to pay a bet, Basket is vociferated in terrorem. He grins like a basket of chips: a saying of one who is on the broad grin.
CHESHIRE CAT		He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone who shews his teeth and gums in laughing.
DURHAM MAN		Knocker kneed, he grinds mustard with his knees: Durham is famous for its mustard.
FLICKERING		Grinning or laughing in a man's face.
GRIN		To grin in a glass case; to be anatomized for murder: the skeletons of many criminals are preserved in glass cases, at Surgeons' hall.
GRINAGOG, THE CAT'S UNCLE		A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason.
GRIND		To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
GRINDERS		Teeth. Gooseberry grinder; the breech. Ask bogey, the gooseberry grinder; ask mine arse.
OTTOMISED		To be ottomised; to be dissected. You'll be scragged, ottomised, and grin in a glass case: you'll be hanged, anatomised, and your skeleton kept in a glass case at Surgeons' Hall.