The Georgian "Profanisaurus". From the 1790s to the 1820s, numerous editions of the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue were published. Looking at the slang and vernacular language of the time, this dictionary pre-dated Roger Mellie's best-selling Profanisaurus by a good 200 years. Reprinted here, it covers the rude, the crude and the downright vulgar. Learn how the Georgians and early Victorians would insult each other and find out how some of today's words and derivations have come about. But most of all, just dip in and see how our ancestors considered and talked about such subjects as sex and the workings of the human body.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence : Unabridged from the Original 1811 Edition

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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence : Unabridged from the Original 1811 Edition

Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, From the Conquest to the Present Time; Volume 1

Classical Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue

Provincial Glossary With a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions

A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence

Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence