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.

Select a letter or type a word and click Find. Searches are automatically wild-carded and clicking on words in the first column will look for all occurrences of that word, or related word.

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Entries releated to WORM

 

MUCKWORM		A miser.
PURL		Ale in which wormwood has been infused, or ale and bitters drunk warm.
PURL ROYAL		Canary wine; with a dash of tincture of wormwood.
SPANISH WORM		A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing.
STOMACH WORM		The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry.
WORM		To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a secret by craft, also to undermine or supplant. He is gone to the diet of worms; he is dead and buried, or gone to Rothisbone.