These are the different terms I gathered from different news stories about Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. There are many more, and you can find the book here (affiliate link). You can also leaf through its virtual pages for free here.
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- Admiral of the narrow seas: "One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite him"
- Betwattled: to be surprised, confounded, out of one's senses
- Blind cupid: the backside
- Blue ruin: Gin, the alcohol. Other terms include cobblers punch, frog's wine, heart's ease, moonshine, strip me naked.
- Bone box: the mouth
- Bottle-headed: void of wit.
- Box the Jesuit: To masturbate; a crime, it is said, much practiced by the reverend fathers of that society.
- Brother of the quill: An author
- Bum fodder: toilet paper
- Butcher's dog:someone who 'lies by the beef without touching it; a simile often applicable to married men.'
- Cake: a foolish man
- Cascade: to vomit
- Cackling farts: eggs
- Captain queernabs: shabby ill-dressed fellow
- Chimping merry: exhilarated with liquor
- Comfortable importance: a wife
- Dicked in the nob: silly, crazed
- Dismal ditty: The psalm sung by the felons at the gallows, just before they are turned off.
- Dog booby: an awkward lout
- Double jugg: a man's bottom
- Duke of limbs: a tall, awkward, ill-made fellow
- Eternity box: a coffin
- Fart catcher: a valet or footman
- Fizzle: A small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs.
- Gambs: thin, ill-shaped legs
- Head rails: teeth
- Hickey: tipsy, hiccupping
- Hoggish: rude and filthy
- Irish apricots: potatoes
- Jack weight: a fat man
- Jolly nob: the head. "I'll lump your jolly nob for you": I'll give you a knock on the head.
- Just-ass: a punning name for a justice [judge]
- Kettle drums: a woman's breasts
- Kick the bucket: die
- Kittle pitchering: to disrupt the flow of a "troublesome teller of long stories" by constantly questioning and contradicting unimportant details, especially at the start (best done in tandem with others)
- Knight of the trenches: a great eater
- Knowledge box: another term for the head.
- Looking as if one could not help it: a simpleton
- Mutton-headed: stupid
- Owl in an ivory bush: someone wearing a frizzy wig
- Paw paw tricks: forbidden tricks; from the French pas pas
- Penny wise and pound foolish: saving in small matters, and extravagant in great
- Pissing pins and needles: to have gonorrhea
- Polish: to be in jail, in the sense of "polishing the king's iron with one's eyebrows, by looking through the iron grated windows."
- Screw: to copulate
- Sugar stick: the virile member
- Tallywags / Whirligigs: testicles
- Whipt Syllabub: a flimsy, frothy discourse
- Whipster: a sharp or subtle fellow
