Netherlands n.
1. the vagina.
Comedy of Errors III ii: ant. s.: Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands? dro. s.: O, sir, I did not look so low. | ||
Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Satyre I 35: Welcome from Netherland, from steaming stew. | ||
in Works (1869) III 24: Lieutenant Puffe from Cleaueland is return’d, / Where entering of a breach was sorely burn’d: / And from reuenge hee’l neuer be perswaded, / Till the low Countries he hath quite inuaded, / When his hot wrath males Neatherlands to smoke. | ||
‘The Threading of the Needle’ in Sportive Wit in (1979) 157: O that I durst but shoot a gulf I know, / Or in the Lower Countries my seed sow, / Or plough the bottom of that Netherland / Until my plough did fall, and I not stand. | ||
Gent.’s Mag. No. 3 May 263: I’ll quit that frail empire, which once I held dear, And let puny states your gross Netherlands share. | ||
Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 130: She [i.e. a French whore] has one quality which many English girls want, that is a certain cleanliness in the Netherlands [and] performs constant ablutions on the gulph of pleasure. | ||
Skins ser.1 ep.1 [TV script] Tonight [...] you finally pop the cherry. You finally get the VIP tour of Netherland. |
2. the buttocks.
Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 25 Dec. 4/1: ‘On, on, my brave fellows!’ roared somebody in the rear, giving me a prick in the netherlands with a bayonet. | ||
DSUE (8th edn) 786: late C.18–early 19. |