From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - H

HABERDASHER OF PRONOUNS. A schoolmaster.
To HANG AN ARSE. To hang back, to hesitate.
HANGMAN'S WAGES. Thirteen pence halfpenny; which, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling for the executioner, and three halfpence for the rope,—N. B. This refers to former times; the hangmen of the present day having, like other artificers, raised their prices. The true state of this matter is, that a Scottish mark was the fee allowed for an execution, and the value of that piece was settled by a proclamation of James I. at thirteen pence halfpenny.
HEARTY CHOAK. He will have a hearty choak and caper sauce for breakfast; i.e. he will be hanged.
HELL-BORN BABE. A lewd graceless youth, one naturally of a wicked disposition.
HERE AND THEREIAN. One who has no settled place of residence.
HIGH EATING. To eat skylarks in a garret.
HODMANDODS. Snails in their shells.
HOOK AND SNIVEY, WITH NIX THE BUFFER. This rig consists in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and is carried on thus: Three men, one of who pretends to be sick and unable to eat, go to a public house: the two well men make a bargain with the landlord for their dinner, and when he is out of sight, feed their pretended sick companion and dog gratis.
HOP MERCHANT. A dancing master.
HOT STOMACH. He has so hot a stomach, that he burns all the clothes off his back; said of one who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor.
HUCKLE MY BUFF. Beer, egg, and brandy, made hot.
HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS. A society existing in 1748.
HUM BOX. A pulpit.
HYP, or HIP. A mode of calling to one passing by. Hip, Michael, your head's on fire; a piece of vulgar wit to a red haired man.

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - G

GAG. An instrument used chiefly by housebreakers and thieves, for propping open the mouth of a person robbed, thereby to prevent his calling out for assistance.
GAGE, or FOGUS. A pipe of tobacco.
GALLIGASKINS. Breeches.
GAPESEED. Sights; any thing to feed the eye.
GAYING INSTRUMENT. The penis.
GENTLEMAN OF THREE INS. In debt, in gaol, and in danger of remaining there for life.
GERMAN DUCK. Half a sheep's head boiled with onions.
GIGGLERS. Wanton women.
GILFLURT. A proud minks, a vain capricious woman.
GLIMFLASHY. Angry, or in a passion.
GLUEPOT. A parson: from joining men and women together in matrimony.
GOOSECAP. A silly fellow.
GORGER. A gentleman.
GRIN. To grin in a glass case; to be anatomized for murder: the skeletons of many criminals are preserved in glass cases, at Surgeons' hall.

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - F

FACE-MAKING. Begetting children.
NO FACE BUT HIS OWN: a saying of one who has no court cards in his hand.
FAGGOT. A man hired at a muster to appear as a soldier.
FAITHFUL. One of the faithful; a taylor who gives long credit.
FART CATCHER. A valet or footman from his walking behind his master or mistress.
FAULKNER. A tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks; perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks.
FEAGUE. To feague a horse; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him lively and carry his tail well.
FELLOW COMMONER. An empty bottle: so called at the university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning. At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason.
FICE, or FOYSE. A small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs.
FINGER POST. A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the finger post, he points out a way he has never been, and probably will never go, i.e. the way to heaven.
FLASH THE HASH. To vomit.
FLY SLICERS. Life-guard men, from their sitting on horseback, under an arch, where they are frequently observed to drive away flies with their swords.
FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier: derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.
FOOTMAN'S MAWND. An artificial sore made with unslaked lime, soap, and the rust of old iron, on the back of a beggar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horse.
FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease.
FRIBBLE. An effeminate fop.
FUSTY LUGGS. A beastly, sluttish woman.

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - E

EARTH BATH. A Grave.
EIGHT EYES. I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a ***-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
ELBOW SHAKER. A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice.

EMPEROR. Drunk as an emperor, i.e. ten times as drunk as a lord.

ENGLISH BURGUNDY. Porter.

ENSIGN BEARER. A drunken man, who looks red in the face, or hoists his colours in his drink.

ESSEX LION. A calf; Essex being famous for calves, and chiefly supplying the London markets.
ESSEX STILE. A ditch; a great part of Essex is low marshy ground, in which there are more ditches than Stiles.
ETERNITY BOX. A coffin.

EVE'S CUSTOM-HOUSE, where Adam made his first entry. The monosyllable.

EVIL. A halter. Also a wife. 

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - D

DADDY. To beat daddy mammy; the first rudiments of drum beating, being the elements of the roll.
DAISY KICKERS. Ostlers at great inns.
DANDY PRAT. An insignificant or trifling fellow.
DARK CULLY. A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.
DARKMAN'S BUDGE. One that slides into a house in the dark of the evening, and hides himself, in order to let some of the gang in at night to rob it.
DEADLY NEVERGREEN, that bears fruit all the year round. The gallows, or three-legged mare.
DICK.  I am as queer as Dick's hatband; that is, out of spirits, or don't know what ails me.
DIDDLE. Gin.
DIMBER. Pretty. A dimber cove; a pretty fellow. Dimber mort; a pretty wench.
DIP. To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn, wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put into a close-stool box, into which, for three-pence, any one might dip, or thrust in his hand, and take out the first wig he laid hold of; if he was dissatisfied with his prize, he might, on paying three halfpence, return it and dip again.
DISPATCHERS. Loaded or false dice.
TO DOCK.  Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint.
DOG'S SOUP. Rain water.
DOMMERER. A beggar pretending that his tongue has been cut out by the Algerines, or cruel and blood-thirsty Turks, or else that he was born deaf and dumb.
DROMEDARY. A heavy, bungling thief or rogue. A purple dromedary; a bungler in the art and mystery of thieving.
DUCK F-CK-R. The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.
DUDDERING RAKE. A thundering rake, a buck of the first head, one
DUTCH CONCERT. Where every one plays or sings a different tune.

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - C

CABBAGE. Cloth, stuff, or silk purloined by taylors from their employers, which they deposit in a place called HELL, or their EYE: from the first, when taxed, with their knavery, they equivocally swear, that if they have taken any, they wish they may find it in HELL; or, alluding to the second, protest, that what they have over and above is not more than they could put in their EYE.—When the scrotum is relaxed or whiffled, it is said they will not cabbage.
CACAFEOGO. A shite-fire, a furious braggadocio or bull huff.
CACKLING FARTS. Eggs.
CALIBOGUS. Rum and spruce beer, American beverage.
CAP ACQUAINTANCE. Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting.
CAPTAIN QUEERNABS. A shabby ill-dressed fellow.
CHALKERS. Men of wit, in Ireland, who in the night amuse themselves with cutting inoffensive passengers across the face with a knife. They are somewhat like those facetious gentlemen some time ago known in England by the title of Sweaters and Mohocks.
CHAP. A fellow; An odd chap; A strange fellow.
CHERRY-COLOURED CAT. A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red.
CHICKEN NABOB. One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a diminutive nabob.
CHOAK PEAR. Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or advertizing a reward for the key, These pears were also called pears of agony.
CLOUD. Tobacco.
CONGO. Will you lap your congo with me? will you drink tea with me?

CREW. A knot or gang. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words:

- MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams.

- WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes.

CRUSTY BEAU. One that uses paint and cosmetics, to obtain a fine complexion.

CUCUMBERS. Taylors, who are jocularly said to subsist, during the summer, chiefly on cucumbers.

 

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - B

BACKED. Dead. He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carrying to the grave.
BANG UP. Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style: as the swell's rattler and prads are bang up prime; the gentleman sports an elegant carriage and fine horses.
BAPTIZED, OR CHRISTENED. Rum, brandy, or any other spirits, that have been lowered with water.
BARKING IRONS. Pistols, from their explosion resembling the bow-wow or barking of a dog.
BATCHELOR'S FARE. Bread and cheese and kisses.

BEAU-NASTY. A slovenly fop; one finely dressed, but dirty.

BEAU TRAP. A loose stone in a pavement, under which water lodges, and on being trod upon, squirts it up, to the great damage of white stockings; also a sharper neatly dressed, lying in wait for raw country squires, or ignorant fops.

BINGO BOY. A dram drinker.

BLACK FLY. The greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. the parson who takes tithe of the harvest.

BLACK SPY. The Devil.

BLOWER. A pipe. How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy.

TO BOX THE JESUIT, AND GET COCK ROACHES. A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that society.

BRISTOL MAN. The son of an Irish thief and a Welch whore.

BULK AND FILE. Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.

BUTTER BOX. A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country.

From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - A

ACE OF SPADES. A widow.
ACORN. You will ride a horse foaled by an acorn, i.e. the gallows, called also the Wooden and Three-legged Mare. You will be hanged.
ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him.
ALDERMAN. A roasted turkey garnished with sausages; the latter are supposed to represent the gold chain worn by those magistrates.
ALL NATIONS. A composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram-shop, collected in a vessel into which the drainings of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied.
ALLS. The five alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, each having a motto under him. The first is a king in his regalia; his motto, I govern all: the second, a bishop in pontificals; motto, I pray for all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead for all: fourth: a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; motto, I fight for all: fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake; motto, I pay for all.
AMBASSADOR OF MOROCCO. A Shoemaker.
TO AMUSE. To fling dust or snuff in the eyes of the person intended to be robbed.
ANKLE. A girl who is got with child, is said to have sprained her ankle.
APOSTLES. (CAMBRIDGE.) Men who are plucked, refused their degree.
APPLE DUMPLING SHOP. A woman's bosom.
AVOIR DU POIS LAY. Stealing brass weights off the counters of shop.