Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK/Aus.) haemorrhoids.

1956		M. Durack Keep Him My Country cited in DSUE (1984).
1969		K. Williams letter 2 Aug. n.p.: I was able to venture into the street, looking like most other pedestraisn. No one actually screamed out ‘Got a touch of the farmers, then?’.
1972		Galton & Simpson ‘Loathe Story’ Steptoe and Son [TV script] I used to sit there for hours on end [...] Ten years old and I already had a touch of the Farmer Giles.
1979		C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 92: You’ll get a touch of the old Farmer Giles sitting there, sir.
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 28: Farmer Giles Piles.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: farmers rhym. slang Piles. From Farmer Giles.
2003		Guardian G2 10 June 22: When Mo complains bitterly in EastEnders (BBC1) about her farmers they are not, as I thought, her farmer’s onions/bunions. Rather, her farmer Giles.