peter n.4
the penis, esp. of a young boy.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Cythera’s Hymnal in (1969) 376: For men must slum and women will try / To gain a small pittance by walking the High, / While Peter stiff is standing. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Transcript Dunn Inquiry in Perverts by Official Order (1989) 798: ‘He had great sport for quite a while rubbing it and playing with it’ [...] ‘playin with the peter’. | |
| Anecdota Americana I 31: Reba sat in his lap. Her warmth made his peter rise. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 35: There was a young man from Glengozzle / Who found a remarkable fossil. / He knew by the bend / And the wart on the end, / ’Twas the peter of Paul the Apostle. | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 543: Ah’ll have two belly-buttons [...] On’y thing beat that would be two peters. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 435: And then old Pete found a hole in the sheet. | |
| Naked Lunch (1968) 148: My peter standing up straight as a jack pine. | |
| Exit 3 and Other Stories 38: Nough ugly gash to make ole peter wrinkle up next to nothin. | |
| Garden of Sand (1981) 89: He [...] staggered toward the bed, talking to his dick. ‘Pete, you never had such a good time as this, have you?’. | |
| Fields of Fire (1980) 289: Got your peter out, huh, Bull man? Can’t get enough of that whore. | |
| (con. 1930s) The Avenue, Clayton City (1996) 7: Uncle Bob got this, Uncle Bob got that; Uncle Bob got a peter like a baseball bat. | |
| (con. 1928) Ozark Folksongs and Folklore I 313: ‘Massa put a twirp of ’lasses on his peter, / Yaller gal lick it off, call her punkin-eater.’ Sung as above by Mr. C.M., Joplin, Missouri, April 3, 1928. | |
| Plainclothes Naked (2002) 243: I’m just trying to cut you a break here. Let you get my petey wet. Dry hurts! | |
| (con. 1950s) My Lives 112: If your pa knew you were out suckin’ peter you’d be up the crick. | |
| Swollen Red Sun 94: ‘What’s this? Feels awful hard to me, and I’m pretty sure it ain’t your little peter’. |
In compounds
(US) a masturbator.
| Gay (S)language. |
(US) a male homosexual fellator; a heterosexual fellatrix.
| (con. 1920s) Hoods (1953) 64: Goddam those peter-eaters. We ought to smack them around. | |
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Gay(s)Language 32: Petereater—gay who performs fellatio. |
(US) a notional means of measuring the size of a penis, or the excitement it is experiencing.
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Gay(s) Language. |
of a man, sexually active.
| ‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 93: He had been kidding himself that he was a peter-pitching-papa. |
(US) one who performs oral sex.
| Prison Sl. 63: Peter Puffer One who performs oral sex. | |
| ‘A dirty little story’ in eye mag. 8 July 🌐 It looked like a real toothache, so she gave him a bit of punishment, playing the piccolo like a real Peter Puffer until she received Holy Communion. | |
| Devil All the Time 127: ‘I ain’t no peter puffer’. |
a masturbator.
| (con. 1945) Tattoo (1977) 357: Aw, Fetterman’s a peter-puller. |
(US black) a man who has sexual intercourse.
| (con. WWII) And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 85: Goddamn if she won’t be running after every brown-skin peter-pusher in Company H. |
In phrases
to work as a homosexual male prostitute.
| San Diego Sailor 75: But all that’s left for the others is to go on peddling their peters. |
of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
| ‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 95: He was a peter-pitching papa [...] He had been kidding himelf that he could pitch peter. |