Pintle, subs. (venery).—The penis: see Prick. Whence pintle-bit (or -maid) = a mistress or keep (q.v.); pintle-blossom = a chancre; pintle-fever = a clap or pox; pintle-merchant (or -monger) = a harlot; pintle-ranger (or -fancier) = a wanton; pintle-case = the female pudendum: see Monosyllable.—Bailey (1728); Halliwell (1844). Also pintle-keek (Scots') = a leer of invitation.
13[?]. Sloane MS., 2584, 50. [A receipt] ffor bolnyng of pyntelys.
14[?]. MS. Med. Rec. xv. century. For sore pyntulles Take lynschede . . . with sweet mylke . . . make a plaster, and ley to, and anoynte . . . till he be whole.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Cazzomarino, a pintle-fish.
1749. Robertson of Struan, Poems, 83. So to a House of Office streight A School-Boy does repair, To ease his Postern of its Weight, And fr his P there.
1785. C. Hanbury Williams, Odes, To Ld Ln,' 112. With whores be lewd, With Whigs be hearty, And both in (pintle) and in party, Confess your noble race.
c.1786. Captain Morris, The Plenipotentiary. She spread its renown through the rest of the town, As a pintle past all understanding.
d.1796. Burns, Merry Muses. 'Nine Inch Will Please a Lady.' We'll add two thumb-breads to the nine And that's a sonsie pintle. Ibid., Burns, Godly Girzie. But ay she glowr'd up to the moon, And ay she sigh'd . . . I trust my heart's in Heaven aboun, Where 'er your sinful pintle be. Ibid. (old), For a' That and a' That. A pintle like a rolling-pin: She nicker'd when she saw that.
Pioneer-of-Nature, subs. phr.
(venery).—The penis: see Prick.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, 1. xi. And some . . . women . . . give these names, my Roger, my . . . pioneer . . . lusty live sausage . . . my rump-splitter.
Pip, subs. (gaming).—1. A spot on
dice or playing cards.—Bailey
(1728). [A corruption of picks
= (O. E.) 'diamond' and (sometimes)
'spade': from old Fr.
picque = a spade.]
2. (old).—The pox: see French disease: hence pipped = poxed.
1584. Monday, Weakest to the Wall, iii. 5. Do not you pray that the pip may catch the people, and that you may earn many groats for making graves?
1622. Dekker and Massinger, Virgin Martyr, ii. 1. Therein thou shewed'st thyself a perfect demi-christian too, to let the poor beg, starve, and hang, or die of the pip.
1670. Ray, Proverbs [Bohn], 172. As much need of it as he has of the pip, or a cough.
Verb. (club).—To blackball; to pill (q.v.).
1880. Huth, Buckle, 1. 252. If Buckle were pipped, they would do the same to every clergyman.
1892. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs, 20. And what his little game is, he'll let us perceive, And he'll pip the whole lot of 'em, so I believe.
2. (gaming).—To take a trick from an opponent.
To have (or get) the pip, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be depressed, or out of sorts: see Hump.
1886-96. Marshall, 'Pomes' from the Pink 'Un ['The Luxury of Doing Good'], 41. It cost a bit to square up the attack; For the landlord had the pip.
Pipe (or pipers), subs. (old).—1.
Generic for the vocal organs;
and (2) the voice: in pl. = the
lungs. Hence as verb. = (1) to
talk; and (2) to cry: also to
pipe up, to take a pipe, to
