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for one; star; star over the garter (Lord Cork); Stream's Town (Irish: Grose); suck-and-swallow; sugar-basin.

Tail (general); target; teazle (Ramsay); temple of Venus; tench; tenuc (back-slang); that; Thatched House; thing; thingamy; thingumbob; tickler; tickle-Thomas; tickle-toby; tile; tirly-whirly (Burns); tit-mouse; toll-dish (Durfey); tool-chest; touch-'em-up; touch-hole; towdie (Dunbar); tow-wow (A. Smith); towsy-mowsy (Dorset); toy (Etherege); toy-shop; treasure; treasury of love (Clelland); tu quoque (Grose); turnpike; tuzzi-muzzy; twat (Durfey); twa-*chylle; twittle; tunnel.

Under-belongings; under-dimple; under-entrance; under-world; undeniable; Upper Holloway; upright wink; undertaker.

Vacuum; vade-mecum; Venus's Secret Cell, Highway, Honey pot, or Mark; vessel (Semple); vestry; vineyard.

Wame (Burns); wanton ace; ware; waste-pipe; water-box (Florio); water-gap (Urquhart); water-gate (Durfey); water-mill (Grose); way-in; wayside-fountain; wayside-ditch; weather-gig (Durfey); what-do-you-call-it; whim-wham; wicket; wonderful lamp; workshop.

Yoni; you-know-what; yum-yum.

French synonyms. L'abricot de la jardinière (common: also abricot fendu = split-apricot); l'affaire (conventional = thing, q.v.); l'amarris (O. Fr. = matrix. Also l'amatrix); l'angora (common = cat, q.v.); l'animal (= the beast); l'anneau (common = ring, q.v. Also l'anneau d' Hans Carvel = Hans Carvel's ring, q.v.); l'antre or l'antre à Priape (conventional:

Priapus' lair); les appas (

charms); l'argument (= oracle); l'atelier (common = workshop, q.v. Also l'atelier de Vénus); l'armoyre (== cupboard); l'autel (conventional = the altar: also i'autel de Vénus and l'autel velu); l'autre or l'autre chose (= thing or thingamy); l'avec (= the wherewithal); le bagage; la bague (common = ring, q.v.); le bahut (common: = cupboard); le baquet (common: = pissing-tub); le bas (conventional = the under-world or -entrance); la basse-cour (= courtyard); les basses-marches (common = the bottom-steps); le bassin (= the dock); la batterie; la baudrière équinoxiale (= the equinoctial belt); le bedon (= drum); le belouse; le beauvoire (= beauty-spot: also beauvoire de Vénus); le bénitier (common = font); le bidault; le bijou (literary = the jewel); le biribi; le bis (= Miss Brown); le bissac (common = wallet); le blanc; la blouse (billiard players' = pocket); la boîte d'amourette (= Love's casket); le bonnet (common = cap, q.v. Also le bonnet à poils = hair-cap; and le bonnet de grenadier = busby); la bouche d'en bas (common = under-mouth); la bourse à vits (Rabelais = prick-purse); la boussole (= compass); la bouteille (= bottle); la boutique (common = shop); le bouton; la boutonnière (general =