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[nq:1]Maybe you all know about this already, but I just found an on-line version/transcription of the "1811 Dictinary of the Vulgar Tongue" at: http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/etexts/31/00.htm[/nq]
Thanks. My all-time favorite entry:
[nq:2]***. The chonnos of the Greek

[nq:1]Maybe you all know about this already, but I just found an on-line version/transcription of the "1811 Dictinary of the Vulgar Tongue" at: http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/etexts/31/00.htm That site seems to contain quite a lot of "ebooks and etexts", of various sorts and q

[nq:2]Maybe you all know about this already, but I just found an on-line version/transcription of the "1811 Dictinary of the Vulgar Tongue" at: http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/etexts/31/00.htm[/nq]
[nq:1]Thanks. My all-time favorite entry:[/nq]^^

Yes. That is a go

[nq:2]Thanks. My all-time favorite entry:[/nq]^^
[nq:1]Yes. That is a good one. The dictionary seems a bit inconsistent in its censoring princliples. They have "c t", "p k", "duck f-ck-er" (but not "f k"), but then they have "*** alley".[/nq]
Interestingly, in a trivia sort of way, it has as an entry but uses "***" and "a e" (plus "a-se") in the explanatory sections.

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Jouni Filip Maho filted:
[nq:1]Yes. That is a good one. The dictionary seems a bit inconsistent in its censoring princliples. They have "c t", "p k", "duck f-ck-er" (but not "f k"), but then they have "*** alley".[/nq]
No surprise there...George Carlin assigned "***" to the list of words that are "dirty part of the time", mentioning boys in Beavis mode finding "and the *** crowed three tim

[nq:1]Maybe you all know about this already, but I just found an on-line version/transcription of the "1811 Dictinary of the Vulgar Tongue" at: http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com/etexts/31/00.htm[/nq]
News to me. Thanks. I've own a reprint of that for some time. I always enjo

[nq:1]I'm intrigued by the following: HUGOTONTHEONBIQUIFFINARIANS. A society existing in 1748.[/nq]
The printed copy has the same thing. So it's not a scanning error.
[nq:1]Any ideas what it could have been?[/nq]
Means nothing to me.
[nq:1]Should it segmentalized HUGOT-ON-THE-ON-BIQUIFFINARIANS ? (Google gives nothing.)[/nq]
Best Donna Richoux

[nq:1]Jouni Filip Maho filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Yes. That is a good one. The dictionary seems a ... f-ck-er" (but not "f k"), but then they have "*** alley".[/nq]
[nq:1]No surprise there...George Carlin assigned "***" to the list of words that are "dirty part of the time", mentioning boys ... "cockfight".. Another of the terms you listed is perplexing...what's the second dash supposed to be cove