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 READY

 

AFFIDAVIT MEN		Knights of the post, or false witnesses, said to attend Westminster Hall, and other courts of justice, ready to swear any thing for hire.
ATHANASIAN WENCH, or QUICUNQUE VULT		A forward girl, ready to oblige every man that shall ask her.
BILL AT SIGHT		To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all times for the venereal act.
BITER		A wench whose cunt is ready to bite her arse; a lascivious, rampant wench.
BUTTON		A bad shilling, among coiners. His arse makes buttons; he is ready to bewray himself through fear.
CAW-HANDED, or CAW-PAWED		Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble.
CRUISERS		Beggars, or highway spies, who traverse the road, to give intelligence of a booty; also rogues ready to snap up any booty that may offer, like privateers or pirates on a cruise.
DAGGERS		They are at daggers drawing; i.e. at enmity, ready to fight.
DARBY		Ready money.
DEAD HORSE		To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
DIVE		To dive; to pick a pocket. To dive for a dinner; to go down into a cellar to dinner. A dive, is a thief who stands ready to receive goods thrown out to him by a little boy put in at a window.
GUTS		My great guts are ready to eat my little ones; my guts begin to think my throat's cut; my guts curse my teeth: all expressions signifying the party is extremely hungry.
HAND AND POCKET SHOP		An eating house, where ready money is paid for what is called for.
KNIGHT OF THE POST		A false evidence, one that is ready to swear any thing for hire.
NACK		To have a nack; to be ready at any thing, to have a turn-for it.
PAY		To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, and no pitch hot or ready. SEA TERM. - Also to beat: as, I will pay you as Paul paid the Ephesians, over the face and eyes, and all your d - -d jaws. To pay away; to fight manfully, also to eat voraciously. To pay through the nose: to pay an extravagant price.
PETTY FOGGER		A little dirty attorney, ready to undertake any litigious or bad cause: it is derived from the French words petit vogue, of small credit, or little reputation.
PIGEONS		Sharpers, who, during the drawing of the lottery, wait ready mounted near Guildhall, and, as soon as the first two or three numbers are drawn, which they receive from a confederate on a card, ride with them full speed to some distant insurance office, before fixed on, where there is another of the gang, commonly a decent looking woman, who takes care to be at the office before the hour of drawing: to her he secretly gives the number, which she insures for a considerable sum: thus biting the biter.
PORRIDGE ISLAND		An alley leading from St. Martin's church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks, who cut off ready-dressed meat of all sorts, and also sell soup.
POST NOINTER		A house painter, who occasionally paints or anoints posts. Knight of the post; a false evidence, one ready to swear any thing for hire. From post to pillar; backwards and forwards.
READY		The ready rhino; money.
ROULEAU		A number of guineas, from twenty to fifty or more, wrapped up in paper, for the more ready circulation at gaming-tables: sometimes they are inclosed in ivory boxes, made to hold exactly 20, 50, or 100 guineas.
SEALER, or SQUEEZE WAX		One ready to give bond and judgment for goods or money.
SLAG		A slack-mettled fellow, one not ready to resent an affront.
SLAP-BANG SHOP		A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READY SLAP-BANG, i.e. immediately. This is a common appellation for a night cellar frequented by thieves, and sometimes for a stage coach or caravan.
SPANISH		The spanish; ready money.
SQUEEZE WAX		A good-natured foolish fellow, ready to become security for another, under hand and seal.
SWINDLER		One who obtains goods on credit by false pretences, and sells them for ready money at any price, in order to make up a purse. This name is derived from the German word SCHWINDLIN, to totter, to be ready to fall; these arts being generally practised by persons on the totter, or just ready to break. The term SWINDLER has since been used to signify cheats of every kind.
TITTER TATTER		One reeling, and ready to fall at the least touch; also the childish amusement of riding upon the two ends of a plank, poised upon the prop underneath its centre, called also see-saw. Perhaps tatter is a rustic pronunciation of totter.