Parts below (parts more dear, of shame, or carnal, or other parts).—1. The female pudendum: see Monosyllable; and (2) the penis and testes: see Prick: also Other parts = the paps; parts behind = the buttocks.
1620-50. Percy Folio MS., f. 480 [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), iii. 31]. Yett, for her parts below, there's not a woman ffairer to the showe.
1656. Muses Recr. [Hotten], 33. Forehead, eyes . . . Breast. .. Neck . . . And other parts not evident.
b.1683. Roxburghe Ballads, i. 66-7. Skinne white as snow . . . brest soft as doune,. . . parts below . . . all firme and sound.
1731-5. Pope, Moral Essays, II. 67. A very heathen in the carnal part, Yet still a sad, good Christian at her heart.
Particular, subs. (old).—A favorite
mistress: Fr. une particulière:
see Tart. Also (generally) a
special choice: e.g., to 'ride one's
own particular,' to 'a glass of
one's particular,' &c.: see
Special.
Particular Jesse. See Jesse.
London particular (or London ivy), subs. phr. (common).—A thick yellow or black fog, the product of certain atmospheric conditions and carbon: formerly peculiar to London, now common in most large manufacturing cities situated near water and lying low.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, iii. 'Was a great fire any-where ?' 'O dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.'
1889. Sport. Life, 4 Jan. A cold caught by contact with London ivy.
1890. Sportsman, 13 Dec. From the question of cost . . . a clean sweep should be made of London particular.
1891. Belfort's Magazine, Sep., 29. But the crowning masterpiece of the climate is a London fog, locally known as a London particular.
1896. Sala, London Up to Date, 86. It happens to be a London particular foggy morning.
1897. Daily Chronicle, 20 Dec., 6,4. The real London particular . . . played sad havoc with the traffic arrangements.
Partlet, subs. (old colloquial).—A
woman.
1598. Shakspeare, I Henry IV., iii. 3. How now, Dame Partlet. Ibid. Winter's Tale (1604), ii. 3. Thou dotard, thou art woman tyr'd, unroosted By thy dame Partlet here!
Partner. See Sleeping partner.
Partridge, subs. (old).—A whore:
cf. plover.
c.1700. Old Song. [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), iv. 247.] Go home, ye Fop . . . And for half Crown a Doxey get, But seek no more a partridge here.
Party, subs. (once literary: now
vulgar).—A person; an individual.
See Cove.—Bailey
(1744).
1542. Udall, Apoph. of Erasmus [Roberts, 1877], 325. To please all parties [party = homo occurs passim].
1596. Jonson, Every Man in Humour, iv. 9. See when the party comes you must arrest . . . him quickly.
1538. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Zuccoli. We vse also to say so, when speaking of anybody in secrecie, and the partie comes in.
1609. Shakspeare, Tempest, iii. 2. Canst thou bring me to the party?
1837. Comic Almanack, 103. A werry slap-up party, I assure you.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, xxii. My little woman . . . attends the Evening Exertions . . . of a reverend party of the name of Chadband.
1864. Yates, Broken to Harness, xxxiii. Mr. Schröder . . . a good old cock, sir; a worthy old party; kind-hearted, and all that.
1885. Daily Telegraph, 25 Aug. The seedy-looking old party . . . may be worth a million of money.
