Green’s Dictionary of Slang

one who goes in at one door of a church and out of the other without stopping for prayer.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

a cough accompanied by a simultaneous breaking of wind.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Thorough-cough, farting at the same time.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

the going ‘in one ear and out the other’.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Thorough-passage in at one Ear, and out at the other.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].

1. diarrhoea.

1696		Motteux (trans.) Pantagruelian Prognostications (1927) II 691: Those who are troubled with the thorough-go-nimble, or wild-squirt, will often prostitute their blind cheeks to the bog-house.
1734		Carey Chronohotonthologos Scene 3 n.p.: Now, for a swingeing lye... Say she has got the thorough-go-nimble [F&H].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Thorough go nimble. A looseness, a violent purging.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1984–5		Maledicta VIII 98: The British thorough-go-nimble dates from at least 1694.

2. sour or second-rate beer.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1222/2: 1820–60.

a promiscuous woman.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Thorough-good-natured wench, one who being asked to sit down, will lie down.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

(US) a generous person.

1909

J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.