1895. Pocock, Rules of the Game, ii. 10. What price Mr. Jack Hayles, eh, boys? That proves he's a thief.
1898. Cigarette, 26 Nov., 13, 1. Ain't he gone on saucy colours, Eh? What price the green and red?
1899. Whiteing, John St., 1. ix. What price grammar? It don't seem to teach people to keep a civil tongue in their head.
1901. Free Lance, 13 Ap., 28, 2. "It is all very well," writes a traveller, "to legislate with regard to pure beer, but what price pure wine?"
Prick (or Prickle), subs. (common).—1.
The penis; and (2)
a butcher's skewer (see quot.
1622, with a pun on both senses
of the word). Hence prick-holder
(-purse, -scourer, or
-skinner) = the female pudendum;
prick-scouring = copulation;
prick-pride = an erectio
penis, a prick-stand; prick-proud
= 'satyrical, lustful'
(Florio: also cf. Pride);
prick-hunting = grousing
(q.v.); prick-chinking = copulating;
to look pricks = to
challenge with the eye; to
knock down a prick = to abate
an erection; cf. also Beggar's
benison (q.v.) = 'May your
prick and your purse never fail
you.'
English synonyms.—Aaron's-rod; Abraham; Adam (The old); Adam's-arsenal (penis and testes); affair (Clelland); angle (Rochester); arbor-vitæ; arse-opener; arse-wedge; aspersing-tool (Urquhart); Athenæum.
Baby-maker; bag-of-tricks (penis and testes); bald-headed hermit; battering-piece (Clelland); bauble (Shakspeare); bayonet; beak; bean-tosser; beard-splitter; bed-fellow; belly-ruffian; best-leg-of-three; Billy- (or Bob) my-nag; bird; bit of hard; blade (Davies); bludgeon; Bluebeard; Blueskin; bodkin; bonfire; bow; bracmard (Urquhart); brat-getter; broom-handle; bum-tickler; bush-beater; bush-whacker; busk; butcher (butcher's-shop = female pudendum); butter-knife (butter = spendings q.v.).
Candle (Candlestick = female pudendum); Captain Standish (Merry Drollery: Ebsworth); catso; child-getter; chink-stopper; claw-buttock; clothes-prop; club; cock (Shakspeare); concern; copper-stick; coral-branch (Urquhart); crack-hunter; cracksman; cranny-haunter; creamstick; crimson-chitterling (Urquhart); cuckold-maker (Marston); cuckoo; cunny-burrow ferret (Urquhart); cunny-catcher; Cupid's-torch; custom's-officer; cutlass; cutty-gun (Scots').
Dagger; dearest member (Burns); dibble (old Scots'); dick; dicky (nursery); diddle (nursery); dingus (American); dirk (Scots'); dolly; Don Cypriano (Urquhart); Don Orsino (Urquhart); Dr. Johnson; down-leg; dropping-member; drumstick.
Engine (Clelland); enemy; eye-opener.
Father Abraham; father-confessor; father-of-all; fiddle-bow; fiddle-diddle; fiddle-stick; firebrand; flap-doodle; flapper; flesh (generic); flip-flap (Urquhart); floater; fork; fornicating member; fornicator; flute (Durfey).
Gadso; gap-stopper; garden-engine (garden = female puden-
