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 QUEER

 

CAPTAIN QUEERNABS		A shabby ill-dressed fellow.
COG		A tooth. A queer cog; a rotten tooth. How the cull flashes his queer cogs; how the fool shews his rotten teeth.
CUT BENE		To speak gently. To cut bene whiddes; to give good words. To cut queer whiddes; to give foul language. To cut a bosh, or a flash; to make a figure.
DICK		That happened in the reign of queen Dick, ie: never: said of any absurd old story. I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me.
DUKE, or RUM DUKE		A queer unaccountable fellow.
FLASH		A periwig. Rum flash; a fine long wig. Queer flash; a miserable weather-beaten caxon.
GAME		Any mode of robbing. The toby is now a queer game; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of acting. This observation is frequently made by thieves; the roads being now so well guarded by the horse patrole; and gentlemen travel with little cash in their pockets.
LAMP		An eye. The cove has a queer lamp. The man has a blind or squinting eye.
LAY		Enterprize, pursuit, or attempt: to be sick of the lay. It also means a hazard or chance: he stands a queer lay; i.e. he is in danger.
LOCK		Character. He stood a queer lock; he bore but an indifferent character. A lock is also a buyer of stolen goods, as well as the receptacle for them.
PINS		Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs.
QUEER		To puzzle or confound. I have queered the old full bottom; i.e. I have puzzled the judge. To queer one's ogles among bruisers; to darken one's day lights.
QUEER AS DICK'S HATBAND		Out of order, without knowing one's disease.
QUEER BAIL		Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew bail, from that branch of business being chiefly carried on by the sons of Judah. The lowest sort of these, who borrow or hire clothes to appear in, are called Mounters, from their mounting particular dresses suitable to the occasion.
QUEER BIRDS		Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade.
QUEER BIT-MAKERS		Coiners.
QUEER BITCH		An odd, out-of-the-way fellow.
QUEER BLUFFER		The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper.
QUEER BUNG		An empty purse.
QUEER CHECKERS		Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of people in the house.
QUEER COLE FENCER		A putter off, or utterer, of bad money.
QUEER COLE MAKER		A maker of bad money.
QUEER COVE		A rogue.
QUEER CUFFIN		A justice of the peace; also a churl.
QUEER DEGEN		An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted.
QUEER KEN		A prison.
QUEER KICKS		A bad pair of breeches.
QUEER MORT		A diseased strumpet.
QUEER NAB		A felt hat, or other bad hat.
QUEER PLUNGERS		Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices, who carry them to one of the houses appointed by the Humane Society for the recovery of drowned persons, where they are rewarded by the society with a guinea each; and the supposed drowned persons, pretending he was driven to that extremity by great necessity, also frequently sent away with a contribution in his pocket.
QUEER PRANCER		A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
QUEER ROOSTER		An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night cellars.
QUEER STREET		Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wrong or different to our wish.
QUEER WEDGES		Large buckles.
QUEER, or QUIRE		Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fellow looks. It also means odd, uncommon.
RUFFIAN		The devil. - May the ruffian nab the cuffin queer, and let the harmanbeck trine with his kinchins about his colquarren; may the Devil take the justice, and let the constable be hanged with his children about his neck. The ruffian cly thee; the Devil take thee. Ruffian cook ruffian, who scalded the Devil in his feathers; a saying of a bad cook. Ruffian sometimes also means, a justice.
SCREEN		A bank note. Queer screens; forged bank notes. The cove was twisted for smashing queer screens; the fellow was hanged for uttering forged bank notes.
SKIN		A purse. Frisk the skin of the stephen; empty the money out of the purse. Queer skin; an empty purse.
SMACK		To kiss. I had a smack at her muns: I kissed her mouth. To smack calves skin; to kiss the book, i.e. to take an oath. The queer cuffin bid me smack calves skin, but I only bussed my thumb; the justice bid me kiss the book, but I only kissed my thumb.
TO TOP		To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors for snuffing the candles: he who last pronounces that word word, is obliged to get up and perform the operation. - to be topped; to be hanged. The cove was topped for smashing queerscreens; he was hanged for uttering forged bank notes.