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Wrinkle. You have one wrinkle more in your arse; i.e. you have one piece of knowledge more than you had, every fresh piece of knowledge being supposed by the vulgar naturalists to add a wrinkle to that part.

Yankey, or Yankey Doodle. A booby or country lout; a name given to the New England men in North America.

Van-Neck. Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts, a bushel bubby.

Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas. A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companion shoes.

Urchin. A child, a little fellow; also a hedgehog.

Urinal of the Planets. Ireland; so called from the frequent rains in that island.

Winter's Day. He is like a winter's day, short and dirty.

State. To lie in state; to be in bed with three harlots.

To Strum. To have carnal knowledge of a woman; also to play badly on the harpsichord, or any other stringed instrument.

Sugar Stick. The virile member.

Thief. You are a thief and a murderer, you have killed the baboon and stole his face; vulgar abuse.

Tuzzy-muzzy. The monosyllable.

Riding St. George. The woman uppermost on the amorous congress, that is, the dragon upon St. George.

Slice. To take a slice; to intrigue, particularly with a married woman, because a slice of a cut loaf is not missed.

Squirrel. A prostitute: because she, like that animal, covers her back with her tail.

Stallion. A man kept by an old lady for secret services.

Pluck. To pluck a rose; an expression said to be used by women for going to the necessary house, which in the country usually stands in the garden.

Pope's Nose. The rump of a turkey.

Punch. A girl that is ripe for a man, is called a punchable wench.

Rantallion. One whose scrotum is so relaxed as to be longer than his penis, i.e. whose shot pouch is longer than the barrel of his piece.

Mischief. A man loaded with mischief, i.e. a woman on one shoulder, and a monkey on t'other.

Muff. The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of your marriage.

Pigeon. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off a church.

Plaister of Warm Guts. One warm belly clapped to another: a receipt frequently prescribed for different disorders.

Lobcock. A large relaxed penis; also a dull inanimate fellow.

Lobster. I will not make a lobster kettle of my cunt; a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point of Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier to grant him a favor.

Medlar. A fruit, vulgarly called an open arse; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that unless it is as rotten as a turd, it is not worth a fart.

Kiss Mine Arse. An offer, as Fielding observes, very frequently made, but never, as he could learn, literally accepted.

Knot. A crew, gang, or fraternity. He has tied a knot with his tongue, that he cannot untie with his teeth; he is married.

Lazybones. An instrument like a pair of tongs, for old or very fat people to take any thing from the ground without stooping.

Hop-o-my-thumb. A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a hop-o-my-thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shoulder, might pick a pea out of her arse.

Irish Legs. Thick legs ... It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispensation from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs downwards.

Kettle Drums. Cupid's kettle drums; a woman's breasts, called by sailors chest and bedding.

Giblets. To join giblets; said of a man and woman who cohabit as husband and wife, without being married; also to copulate.

Giles's, or St. Giles's, Breed. Fat, ragged, and saucy.

Gold Finder. One whose employment is to empty necessary houses; called also a tom turd man, and night man.

Green Gown. To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her on the grass.