Excerpts from the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, by Captain Grose (1811):

• ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him.
• ANGLING FOR FARTHINGS. Begging out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string.
• APPLE DUMPLIN SHOP. A woman’s bosom.
• BACK GAMMON PLAYER. A sodomite.
• DUCK F-CK-R. The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.
• GREEN GOWN. To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her on the grass.
• HEMPEN WIDOW. One whose husband was hanged.
• HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS, or CHILD’S BEST GUIDE TO THE GALLOWS. A pack of cards.
• MANOEUVRING THE APOSTLES. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, i.e. borrowing of one man to pay another.
• PISS PROPHET. A physician who judges of the diseases of his patients solely by the inspection of their urine.
• SON OF PRATTLEMENT. A lawyer.

And a THOROUGH-GOOD-NATURED WENCH is “one who being asked to sit down, will lie down.”