- gring twanger, a horse-toole, a
great dildo, or good pricke'); tincone (Florio); vergogne (Florio); verpa (Florio); vieto (Florio); vitto (Florio: 'victuals . . . vsed in iest for a man's priuie member'); vómere (Florio: 'the iron of the plough that pierceth the ground').
Spanish synonyms.—Berga; bergajo; capullo; carajo; mague; maquilen (Sp. gypsy); menina; monda; nabo; picha; pijote; pinga; pitilén; poya; quile (Sp. gypsy).
Portuguese synonyms.—A parario; bacamarte (= cream-*stick); badalo; baioneta; banana; bimbo; capitão; caralho; chico; chinguiço; chunço; deabrete; Don Cipriano; espadão (augmentative); espada; espiga; formigão; fumo; largato; linguiça; macacheira; malho; minhoca; maranhão; marsapo; nabo; Philippe; paosinho da matrimonio; pão de Leite; pão de todos (= father-of-all); pão magico; porra (classic); pica; pica (classic); pomba; paio; pichota; quiabo; rolla; sulipa; tromba; vergalho; virgolleiro; vara; zé-caitano.
Dutch synonym.—Pit.
Walloon synonym.—Bock.
1595. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4. Mer. 'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the dial is now on the prick of noon. Nurse. Out upon you! what a man are you?
[?]. The Wyll of the Devill [Halliwell]. I geve to the butchers prickes inoughe to sette up their thinne meat that it may appeare thick and well fedde.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, Coglinto, a man that hath a good pricke. A conscienza vitta . . . with a stiffe standing pricke. Ibid. Priapismo . . . the standing of a man's yard which is when the yard is stretched out in length and breadth . . . If it come with a beating and panting of the yard the phisicians call it then Satiriasi. Called also in English . . . prick-pride, or lust-pride (et passim).
1605. Jonson, Marston, &c, Eastward Ho! iii. 2. Gert. May one be with child afore they are married, mother? Mistr. T. Ay, by'r lady, madam; a little thing does that; I have seen a little prick no bigger than a pin's head swell bigger and bigger till it has come to an ancome; and e'en so 'tis in these cases [see sense 4].
1608. Heywood, Rape of Lucreece, iii. 5. I would wish all young maids, before they be sick, To enquire for a young man that has a good prick.
c.1610-20. Rawl. MS., B 35, 54 back He shall not do so that I love, But so soone as I am sick, Shall never faile me in the nick, To give me proof of his good .
1611. Beaumont and Fletcher, Kn. of Burning Pestle, v. 3. With hey, trixy, tirlery-whiksin, The world goes round on wheels. When the young man's prick's in, Up go the maiden's heels.
c.1613. Fletcher, Nice Valour, v. 1. As nightingales, And things in cambric rails, Sing best against a prickle.
1622. Dekker and Massinger, Virgin Martyr, ii. 1. Bawdy Priapus, the first schoolmaster that taught butchers to stick pricks in flesh, and make it swell, thou know'st, was the only ningle that I cared for under the moon.
1656. Fletcher, Martiall, x. 63. One prick was privy to my chastitie.
1672. Butler, Dildoides. Women must have both youth and beauty, Ere prick, damn'd Rogue will do his duty. Ibid. Are you afraid lest merry Griggs Will wear false pricks like Perriwigs? Ibid. He paus'd, another stepp'd in With limber prick and grisly chin.
1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie [Works (1725) 74]. ('Twixt you and me) I'm sore afraid, My son's so big (which rarely falls) About his , and Genitals, That I am half afraid lest he Should chance to spoil her Majesty. Ibid. And quickly The Trojan does with the great Pk lie.
d.1680. Rochester, Satire on the King. His sceptre and his prick are of a length. Ibid. (Works, 1718). Here walks Cuff and Kick, With brawny back and legs, and potent prick.
1681. John Aubrey, Life of Selden, MS. He told me that Mr. Selden had got more by his prick than by his practice.
