Thread by @AdamCSharp

Sorely missed Regency slang:

8. Dicked in the knob (crazy)
7. The apple dumplin shop (breasts)
6. Lapping your congo (drinking tea)
5. The mulligrubs (a sad)
4. Potato trap (mouth)
3. Malty (drunk)
2. Dance the blanket hornpipe (sex)
1. My arse on a bandbox (like hell I will)

More:

8. Dash my buttons (what fresh hell is this)
7. Belly timber (food)
6. Cow juice (milk)
5. To piss down his back (to flatter him)
4. Cucumberish (poor)
3. Gooseberry grinder (bum)
2. Cockshut time (the evening)
1. That happened in the reign of King Dick (an unlikely tale)

Another:

8. To cut a bosh (well-dressed)
7. Strike me moral (wtf)
6. Cupid’s coal-hole (lady bits)
5. Gaying instrument (penis)
4. Munster plums (potatoes)
3. Haberdasher of pronouns (teacher)
2. Dog’s soup (rain)
1. Save your breath to cool your porridge (pipe down, asswipe)

Political commentary edition:

8. Nobs House (Houses of Parliament)
7. Gollumpus (oaf)
6. Shabbaroon (mean-spirited fellow)
5. A go-alonger (a fool)
4. Magging (to drone on)
3. Captain Huff (a bully)
2. Grubshiters (mess makers)
1. He was rocked in a stone kitchen (nincompoop)

Even more:

8. By the holy poker of hell (jeepers)
7. To dance at the sheriff’s ball (to be hanged)
6. Put to bed with a spade (buried)
5. Earth bath (grave)
4. Silent flute (penis)
3. Wife in watercolours (mistress)
2. Lullaby cheat (baby)
1. All his geese are swans (braggart)

So anyway, it was cockshut time and some malty go-alonger, I think he was a bit dicked in the knob, asked if he could play his silent flute in me apple dumplin shop, so I says, “my arse on a bandbox, you gollumpus.” He tried pissing down my back for a bit but it got him nowhere.

Nearly done:

8. He would lend out his arse and shit out his ribs (bad with money)
7. Smiter (arm)
6. Idea pot (head)
5. Moisten your chaffer (have a drink)
4. Russian coffeehouse (pub)
3. A Lolpoop (lazy person)
2. Crusty (annoyed)
1. Shut your pan (that’s enough from you now)

Last one:

8. Sea lawyer (a shark)
7. Essex lion (a calf)
6. A napper of naps (sheep thief)
5. Buffle-headed (confused or foolish)
4. Jingle brains (a thoughtless fellow)
3. Collywobbles (indigestion)
2. Surveyor of the highways (a drunkard)
1. A jaw me dead (a talkative person)