ram n.1
1. a penis.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | False One III ii: A womans warriour [...] Studies her fortifications, and her breaches, And how he may advance his ram to batter the Bullwork of her chastitie. | |
| London Terraefilius III 27: It will infalliby Fortifie the Mons Veneris of any young lady against Love’s Battering-Ram. | |
 | ‘Come rede me, dame’ in Complete Works (1993) 349: Nidge me o’er the nyvel! Come lowse and lug your battering ram, And thrash him at my gyvel! | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Erotic Muse (1992) 69: I fired off a broadside until my shot was spent, / Then rammed that fire ship’s waterline until my ram was bent. |
2. a virile and/or promiscuous man; often as old ram
| [ | | Chaste Maid in Cheapside I i: My knight with a brace of footmen / Is come and brought up his ewe mutton / To find a ram at London]. |
| Hollander IV i: Now the curse of a tedious virginity light on ye, you will not be tupped by a Dutch Ram. | |
| ‘The Committee of Safety’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 101: Wat Strictland him second’s that furious Ram, / And swears that when first to Holland he came, / All Sects were permitted in Amsterdam. | |
| Farmer’s Return 2: Bridget, I know, as we sow we must reap And a cunning old ram will avoid rotten sheep. | |
| Pickwick Papers (1999) 178: Invidious comparisons between Mr Pickwick and an aged ram. | |
| Rosa Fielding 30: ‘[G]reat was his disgust [...] on perceiving a fine young ram like master, getting into the mutton of a pretty ewe lamb, like Miss Larcher’. | |
| Sportsman (London) 13 Jan. 2/1: [We] are prepared to admit that the operation of cupping might applied to many the ‘rollicking rams’ who infest the gayest city of the world with beneficial effect. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | |
| Sport (Adelaide) 3 Aug. 14/3: They Say [...] That Windy B. is a great ram for Miss G. | |
| Sport (Adelaide) 7 Sept. 14/2: [of a football player] They Say [...] That Little Bill was the biggest ram for the Reynellas until beaten. | |
| (con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: ram. A rake; one who leads an immoral life. | |
| Love me Sailor 20: That old ram will miss nothing. | |
| Gold in the Streets (1966) 166: Horse trainers, quacks, old rams with bits of fluff. | |
| Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976) 123: You old ram, you! | |
| Limericks Down Under 75: A ram of the Sunshine Coast / At confession was naughtier than most. | |
| Yes We have No 27: None of the silly macho business, trying to be the prize ram. |
3. an act of sexual intercourse; a single thrust of the penis.
| ‘Black Sam, the Pavier’ in Out-and-Outer in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 143: That there Pavier, they call him Black Sam, / [...] / With his stones he will give ye a ram. | |
| Nocturnal Meeting 72: A quick ram or two, and the spunk began to flow. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 anal intercourse: [...] Syn: ram job. |
In derivatives
of either gender, sexually enthusiastic.
| Phoenix I ii: What a fortunate elder brother is he, whose father being a rammish plowman, himself a perfumed gentleman, spending [...] the sweat of his father’s body in monthly physic for his pretty queasy harlot. | |
| Wonder of a Kingdom I ii: I hold my life this Lord has bin bastinado’d, out upon him rammish foxe, he stinks hither. | |
| Emblems II i 66: Go, Cupid’s rammish pander, go. | |
| Wandring Whore II 12: As W— the Butchers son in the Stocks did Honor Brooks the rammish Scotch whore at D— between her Legs, not forgetting that Ursula had half a crown for showing her Twit-twat there, and half a crown for stroaking the marrow out of a mans Gristle. [Ibid.] IV 9: Her skin smells rammish, just like Aloes Succatrina. | |
| Thousand Notable Things 269: A nasty Ramish filthy Quean, Dishonest obscene, base baggerly. | |
| ‘A Faithful Catalogue of our most Eminent Ninnies’ Works of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset (1720) 31: Thy rammish spendthrift Buttocks, ’tis well known, / Her nauseous Bait has made thee swallow down. | |
| Almonds for Parrots 12: The Nymph was nothing more Than an old batter’d Hag, or rammy Wh---. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Rammish, rank. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Ramish-Woman a Sturdy Woman. West Country. | |
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Rammish. Rank. Rammish woman; a sturdy virago. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796]. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Olive of Minerva 79: Your ecstasy has excited your armpits; they’re rammish. |
In phrases
an old or middle-aged man who still pursues women.
| ‘The Frolicsome Spark’ No. 31 Papers of Francis Place (1819) n.p.: Come hither you Gallus old ram [...] here’s a win for to buy you a dram. | |
| ‘Greatest Old Ram in this Neighbourhood’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 38: No sooner did the ‘Old Ram’ behold her than he was smitten with her. | |
| (con. c.1840) Huckleberry Finn 200: I don’t say that ourn is lambs, because they ain’t [...] but they ain’t nothing to that old ram. | |
| Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 262: He was a talkative old ram. | |
| Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 244: But the old ram couldn’t stop rambling no matter how sick and bad he felt. | |
| ‘Matchmaking’ 🌐 You’re both on your own... Think it over well before you give your answer. He’s an old ram like all the rest of ’em, but he’ll help you to live out the rest of your days. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Out After Dark 97: She let some old ram go all the way with her. |