Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nudge v.1

of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

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[Scot]Burns ‘Come rede me, dame’ in Merry Muses of Caledonia (1964) 59: Come nidge me, Tam, come nidge me Tam, / Come nidge me o’er the nyvel!

SE in slang uses

In phrases

nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean, say no more [popularized by Eric Idle in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, BBC2 TV c.1969; Idle was dressed as a spiv n. and was making heavily sexual innuendoes, playing on the familiar SE phr. say no more]

1. used, heavy-handedly, to make a sexual or otherwise dubious innuendo, usu. abbr. to nudge, nudge (wink, wink); also attrib.

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[UK]Monty Python’s Flying Circus [TV script] Idle: Your wife interested in . . . photographs? Eh? Know what I mean – photographs? He asked him knowingly – Jones: Photography? Idle: Yes – nudge nudge, snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, say no more.
[UK]P. Theroux Picture Palace 11: Nudge, nudge; you can’t win.
C. Grant Last India Overland 22: It would be a shame to travel all the way to India and not visit some of the more exotic emporiums, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.
[Aus]M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper From The Inside 94: Nudge nudge, wink wink. The legal system is a never-ending round of let’s make a deal.
J. Greenwood No Guns, Big Smile 93: I ignored their nudge-nudge-wink-wink-say-no-more questions by talking without a break about AIDS until we got back.
[UK]D. Fallowell One Hot Summer in St Petersburg 212: He wanted the coy nudge-nudge.
[UK]Indep. Rev. 12 July 1: No, he says, the sexy nudge-nudge, wink-wink stuff is NOT what he’s about.
[UK]K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 117: Anthony Brennan, a.k.a. Mad Moby, bit of a Name, bit of a nudge-nudge persona, stunningly transformed into Moby the Family Man.
[Aus]R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 151: How was your day with Grace? [...] Bit of nudge, nudge, wink, wink there?
[UK]Guardian G2 30 May 7: The men folk were not so bad. They would sort of nudge-nudge, wink-wink, but the women were awful. They called me a whore.

2. in attrib. use of sense 1.

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[UK]D. O’Donnell Locked Ward (2013) 99: There was nothing nudge-nudge or salacious about the scene.
nudge the turps (v.)

(Aus.) to drink heavily, often with a specified drink, e.g. nudge the nelly, to drink too much cheap wine.

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B. Humphries Bazza comes into his Own n.p.: G’day Doc. You’d have to be the world expert [...] Did you ever nudge the turps!!’.
[Aus]B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 26: Her Auntie Kath who’s a nun, really used to nudge the turps.
Starvox Music Zine Nov. 🌐 In short, he’s pissed. Staggering drunk. This, it must be said, is not a new phenomenon – I’ve seen previous Nosferatu gigs which have been much enlivened by LaVey’s tendency to nudge the turps – but I’ve never seen him as trollied as he is tonight.