coral branch n.
the penis.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: Another again [would call it] her branch of coral, her placket-racket, her Cyprian sceptre, her tit-bit, her bob-lady. | (trans.)||
Eng. Rogue Pt I i ii : They loved to play at a Small Game rather than stick out; rather than not have their itching Gums rubb’d at all, they would admit of a Childes Corral to execute the Office. | ||
‘Taunton-Dean Damosel’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III 260: [A] pretty Toy ... Like a rich Coral.... Adorn’d with pretty Bells. | ||
‘Age Renewed by Wedlock’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) V 159: He has a curious Correl As long as both my Thumbs, With two Bells at the end on’t With which he rubs my Gums. | ||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk IV 258: A fine and eleven Inch long Branch of red Coral, for her Christmas-Box. | (trans.)||
‘The Discovery’ Cabinet of Love (1739) 180: With Transport he some little Time lay dead; / But soon reviving, rais’d his Coral Head. | ||
An Essay upon Whoring iii: This Branch of Immorality has grown under your Hands. | ||
[ | Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 59: A pair of dark blue eyes [...] invite the blind coral headed boy into her cloister of teeming joys]. | |
Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 76: She is very fond of a good sprig of coral and cares not how red the tip is. | ||
‘Chloe and her Coral’ in Cove in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 222: She tunes it and plays it all day and night, / She’s patrtial to, partial to the coral, O. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Town-Bull 107: Three copious drops from each coral branch she plucked. | ||
Memoirs of Madge Buford 25: ‘Drink [...] you to this branch of coral — I, to that rosy crevice’. |