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 TUP

 

BEETLE-HEADED		Dull, stupid.
BLUNDERBUSS		A short gun, with a wide bore, for carrying slugs; also a stupid, blundering fellow.
BRAINS		If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid fat fellow. To have some guts in his brains; to know something.
BUFFLE-HEADED		Confused, stupid.
CHAW BACON		A countryman. A stupid fellow.
CHUCKLE-HEADED		Stupid, thick-headed.
CLUMP		A lump. Clumpish; lumpish, stupid.
COD'S HEAD		A stupid fellow.
DULL SWIFT		A stupid, sluggish fellow, one long going on an errand.
FAT HEADED		Stupid.
JOLTER HEAD		A large head; metaphorically a stupid fellow.
LEATHER		To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle sick. To leather also meant to beat, perhaps originally with a strap: I'll leather you to your heart's content. Leather-headed; stupid. Leathern conveniency; term used by quakers for a stage-coach.
LOGGERHEAD		A blockhead, or stupid fellow. We three loggerheads be: a sentence frequently written under two heads, and the reader by repeating it makes himself the third. A loggerhead is also a double-headed, or bar shot of iron. To go to loggerheads; to fall to fighting.
LOUT		A clumsy stupid fellow.
MOPED		Stupid, melancholy for want of society.
MUTTON-HEADED		Stupid.
NUMBSCULL		A stupid fellow.
POLE		He is like a rope-dancer's polo, lead at both ends; a saying of a stupid sluggish fellow.
PUDDING-HEADED FELLOW		A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
TITTUP		A gentle hand gallop, or canter.
TUP		To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
TUP		A ram: figuratively, a cuckold.
TUP RUNNING		A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own.