poperin pear n.
1. the penis.
![]() | Romeo and Juliet II i: O, that she were / An open et-caetera, thou a poperin pear! | |
![]() | Woman never Vext 38: I requested him to pull me A Catherine Peare, and had not I lookt to him He would have mistooke and given me a Popperin. | |
![]() | Wit and Drollery 103: Ladies here I do present you / With a dainty dish of fruit, / The first it was a Poplin Pear [...] You need not pare it any whit / But put it all in at a bit. | et al. ‘A Song’ in|
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 113: Étendard, m. The penis; ‘the poperine pear’. |
2. a piece of excrement.
![]() | Mercurius Fumigosus 60 11-18 July 7: The Wench, (hearing his description of her) dropt from a hole, on the backside of her Breeches a Popperin Peare that beat the Spectacles from his Nose, and followed it with such a salt shower. |