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 MOB

 

BELLWETHER		The chief or leader of a mob; an idea taken from a flock of sheep, where the wether has a bell about his neck.
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.
CAPTAIN TOM		The leader of a mob; also the mob itself.
CLOSH		A general name given by the mobility to Dutch seamen, being a corruption of CLAUS, the abbreviation of Nicholas, a name very common among the men of that nation.
DEWITTED		Torn to pieces by a mob, as that great statesman John de Wit was in Holland, anno 1672.
HORN FAIR		An annual fair held at Charlton, in Kent, on St. Luke's day, the 18th of October. It consists of a riotous mob, who after a printed summons dispersed through the adjacent towns, meet at Cuckold's Point, near Deptford, and march from thence in procession, through that town and Greenwich, to Charlton, with horns of different kinds upon their heads; and at the fair there are sold rams horns, and every sort of toy made of horn; even the gingerbread figures have horns.
JANIZARIES		The mob, sometimes so called; also bailiffs, their setters, and followers.
MOB; or MAB		A wench, or harlot.
MOBILITY		The mob: a sort of opposite to nobility.
POSSE MOBILITATIS		The mob.
RIFF RAFF		Low vulgar persons, mob, tag-rag and bob-tail.
RUNNING SMOBBLE		Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them.
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.