Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 81: The mames [sic] he has for my cunt vary from cream-jug to piss-pot.

2. (US) the male genitals.

1893

‘Bob Sterling’ Town-Bull 18: My hostess and Mrs Virtue continue to consume all the sperm I brewed on my big cream jug.

see separate entry.

(N.Z. prison) mainstream prisoners (opposed to those on segregation, who are lower in the hierarchy).

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 48/1: cream of the crims n pl. mainstream inmates (as opposed to inmates on segregation, who tend to be looked down upon).

of a woman, to have sexual intercourse.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

the female breasts.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Cream Pots or Juggs Womens Breasts.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 76: As soon as he saw the grog’ums in the steppers, her legs trembled; he was on to her [...] and had his stretchers round her tripe-box, and copped her rumbo, and stalled her from a downey – sucked her jowl; fammed her cream-jugs, and shouted – ‘Give her some pawney’.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 267/2: low –1891.

(US) someone or something considered perfect.

1930

E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 74: Flapper: Why [...] she was the cream in his coffee.

gin.

1832		Lit. Gaz. 28 Apr. 268/1: Around me were various casks of ample dimensions, some of which bore the title of ‘max,’ ‘Old Tom,’ ‘the cream of the valley,’ and others too numerous to mention.
1833		New Mthly Mag. I 15/1: The proposed duty would be a protective one of about 50 per cent on gin [...] exceeding the retail price of the ‘cream of the valley’.
1839		Central Criminal Court. Minutes of evidence 1102: The prisoner called for half a quartern of the best ‘cream of the valley, that is gin’.
1842		Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art 45 906/2: ‘Smith’s Aniseed Cordial’ enables respectable ladies to get tipsy secundum artem; and ‘Cream of the Valley’ and ‘Milk of Canaan’ are but refined methods of talking about gin and bitters.
1853		Dickens ‘Slang’ in Household Words 24 Sept. 75/2: For one article of drink, gin, we have [...] cream of the valley, white satin, old Tom.
1855		Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Feb. 22/1: Till the last ties that held me to decency passed, / And the Cream of the Valley refreshed me at last.
c.1860		‘What Shall We Do For Meat!’ in C. Hindley Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 127: Old Polly, Kit, and Sally, / Would find the means to guzzle down, / A little cream of the valley.
1865		J. Diprose (ed.) ‘Let Me Cream of the Valley Drain’ in Red, White & Blue Monster Song Book 317: Cream of the valley off I drain / Forgetting all I’ve lost.
1880		Library of universal Knowledge 438: Cream of the valley, a fine kind of English gin.
1898		Belfast News-Letter 11 Apr. 6/5: Gin has an enticingly pastoral sound as ‘cream of the valley’.
1900		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 1 Sept. 3/6: ‘Cream of the valley,’ ‘water of life,’ ‘white satin,’ ‘blue ruin,’ ‘eyewater’ — Gin.
1906		Sun (NY) 5 Mar. 4/6: He is full of the cream of the valley.