6. (venery).—The penis: also (in pl.) = the male privities: see Prick. Hence to grind one's tool = to copulate: see Greens and Ride.
1640. Ladies' Parliament. Stamford. She is for the game, She saies her husband is to blame, For her part she loves a foole, If he hath a good toole.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, i. xii. This little lecher was always groping his nurses and governesses . . . for he had already begun to exercise the tools, and put his codpiece in practice.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, v. xxviii. Pan. What kind of tools are yours? Fri. Big. . . . Pan. How many bouts a-nights? Fri. Ten. Catso! quoth Friar John, the poor fornicating brother is bashful. Ibid., iv. Prol. What need you use a wooden tool? When lusty John does to me come, He never shoves but with his bum.
1706. Ward, Wooden World, 46, 'The Surgeon.' His tools are of various Sorts and Sizes; his best he always carries in his Breeches. Ibid. (1707), Hud. Redio, ii. ii. 22. And fire the Tools of Generation With Some Venereal Inflammation.
1772. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 219. But in her hand, if I must tell ye, She caught my tool, and sav'd her belly.
d. 1796. Burns [Merry Muses (c. 1800), 22]. 'Old Song Revised.' 'And noble tools,' quo' she, 'by my faith!' And ay she waggit it wantonlie.
Tooley-street tailor, subs. phr.
(obsolete).—A conceited, bumptious
fellow. [Hotten: The
'three tailors OF Tooley
Street' immortalized themselves
by preparing a petition for Parliament
and presenting it with only
their own signatures thereto, which
commenced, 'We, the people of
England'—so it is said.]
Toot, subs. (provincial).—1. The
Devil (prov. Eng.): see Black-*spy;
and (2) a shiftless fellow,
a good-for-nothing. Whence
(American) on a toot = 'raising
the devil' (Leland), 'on a spree'
(Bartlett).
1889. Harper's Mag., lxxvii. 801. Marsh Yates, the 'shif'less toot,' and his beautiful, energetic wife.
1900. Lynch, High Stakes, xxxii. I'd never 'a' carried 'em . . . if I 'adn't been on a regular toot for the last week! It's a fool's trick to do.
See Tout.
Tooth (Teeth), subs. (colloquial).—A special taste, palate, or relish; a great liking. Hence toothy (or toothful) = palatable, to one's liking; the run of one's teeth = keep, maintenance; something for the tooth = (1) food, and (2) a tit-bit (Grose); to love the tooth = to gourmandise; tooth-music = mastication (Grose).
1581. Lyly, Euphues [Arber], 308. I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
1607. Dekker, Northward Hoe, iv. 4. Having met one fit for his own tooth, you see, he skips from us.
1610. Holland, Camden, 543. Very delicate dainties . . . greatly sought by them that love the tooth so well.
1622. Massinger, Virgin Martyr, v. 1. If so toothfull I will be banquetted.
1697. Dryden, Persius's Satires, iii. 229. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth.
1769-78. Tucker, Light of Nature, II. ii. xxiii. My compatriots . . . are too squeamish in their taste, and fonder of the toothsome than the wholesome.
1875. Collins, Blacksmith and Scholar, i. The splendid saddle (the Squire's own Southdowns), which melted so toothsomely in the mouth.
c. 1885. Alienist and Neurol. [Century]. A certain relaxation . . . during which meat or game which is at first tough, becomes more tender and toothy.
1889. Harper's Mag., lxxviii. 867. Affable greetings, pressing invitations, great courtesy, but nothing, absolutely nothing, for the impatient tooth of a correspondent.
