O Jimminy Figs! O Jimminy Gig! etc.: for the phrase has pleased the cockney mind, and been vulgarised accordingly.
1672. Dryden, The Assignation, Act ii., Sc. 3. Ben. O gemini! is it you, sir?
1704. Steele, Lying Lover, Act iv., Sc. 3. Sim. I stay with you? Oh gemini! Indeed, I can't.
1731. Fielding, The Lottery, Sc. 2. Lord Lace! Oh gemini! who's that?
1780. Mrs. Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem, iv., 2. Oh gemini! beg the petticoat's pardon.
1797. M. G. Lewis, Castle Spectre, iii., 3. Oh gemini! what would he use with me, lady?
1798. Morton, Secrets Worth Knowing, i., 1. A parcel of lazy chaps, I dare say—but I'll make them stir their stumps. Well, here we are at last.—Oh gemini gig how my poor bones do ache!
1836. M. Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, ch. i. 'Gemini! what is that now?' quoth Tip again.
1863. Reade, Hard Cash, I., 125. O, jiminy! This polite ejaculation was drawn out by the speaker's sudden recognition of Alfred.
Gemman, subs. (vulgar).—A contraction of gentleman.
1550. Docteur Double-All (the word occurs in this play).
c. 1551. L. Shepherd, John Bon in Arber's Garner, iv., 107. Ye be the jolliest gemman that I ever saw in my life.
1767. Colman, Oxonian in Town, I., i. I am glad to see your honour's well. I hope you left all the gemmin well at Oxford.
1818. Byron, Beppo, st. 86. At home our Bow-street gemmen keep the laws.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, bk. iii., ch. v. . . . but knock down a gemman.
1851. Borrow, Lavengro, ch. 26. Here the gipsy gemman see.
Gen, subs. (costers').—A shilling. Back slang, but cf. Fr., argent. For synonyms, see Blow.
1851-61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, vol. i., p. 19. I'll try you a gen (shilling) said a coster.
1887. Saturday Review, 14 May, p. 700. The difficulty of inverting the word shilling accounts for 'generalize.' from which the abbreviation to gen is natural as well as affectionate.
Gender, verb. (old).—To copulate. [An abbreviation of Engender.] For synonyms, see Greens and Ride.
1602. Shakspeare, Othello, iv., 2. A cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in.
1659. Torriano, Vocabolario, s.v.
1778. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v.
1816. Johnson, Eng. Dict., s.v.
1892. Bible, Lev. xix., 19. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind.
Feminine Gender, subs. phr. (schoolboys').—The female pudendum. [As in the old (schoolboys') rhyme: Amo, amas, I loved a lass, And she was tall and slender, Amas, amat, I laid her flat, And tickled her feminine gender. Quoted (with modifications) by Marryat in Jacob Faithful, 1835.]
Generalize, subs. (costers'). A shilling. See Gen.
Generating Place, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum.
Generation Tool, subs. phr. (venery).—The penis. For synonyms, see Creamstick and Prick.
Geneva Print, subs. phr. (old).—Gin. For synonyms, see Drinks and Satin.
1584-1640. Massinger (quoted in Slang, Jargon, and Cant). And if you meet an Officer preaching of sobriety, Unless he read it in Geneva Print, Lay him by the heels.
