flue n.1
1. (also flue-hole) the vagina.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Erotic Muse (1992) 2: The devil’s in the pisspot and he’s got me by the flue. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mercurius Fumigosus 36 31 Jan.–7 Feb. 288: There is a skil-fool man in Horsham [...] who lately found out a great Discoverie in the Privie Parts of a Woman neer the Flue, which proved to be a Wart. | |
| ‘Firing Up The Chimney’ in Lummy Chaunter 80: Then Molly ask’d Jemmy his pistol to fire [...] Up her foul flue and bring down the mire. | |
| ‘Up the Flew’ in Flash Minstrel! in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) I 108: Go along chummy, wide awake chummy, / Up their flue holes go along chum. | |
| ‘I Am a Smutty Chimney Sweep’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 24: When up the ladies’ flues I creep, / The pleasure it is all my own. | |
| Swell’s Night Guide 36: Many of the finest of the Oxford-street birds flutter in here [...] nightbirds. [...] We especially recommend our rustic relatives to fight shy, for many have suffered from inflamation [...] The flues attached to this establishment are rather foul. | |
| ‘Marry Had a Pair of Drawers’ Bawdy N.Y. State MS. n.p.: Then he took his PRICK from out his pants, / And stuck it in her flue. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 602: I will suck your juicey pick / While you lick out my flue. | |
| ‘Betty Boop in “Flesh”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 29: The old buzzard intends to ravish her flue. | |
| in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 566: There once was an Indian maid / Who was always afraid, / That some buckeroo would ram it up her flue. | |
| Garden of Sand (1981) 142: He stirred and shoved her back to work, busily beginning to churn her flue with his fingers. |
2. a lift formerly in use in pawnbrokers’ shops, in which the articles pawned were taken up for storage; thus put up the flue v., to pawn.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
3. the stomach; usu. in line one’s flue
| ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 It was the law of the West to ask a stranger to light and line his flue with chuck. |
4. the anus.
 | Blue Voyage 135: I don’t give a damn what he said – he can stick it up – the flue. | |
| Garden of Sand (1981) 390: I’m going to fuck you up your flue. |
5. (US Und.) the envelope supposedly containing money in a swindle.
| ‘Lang. of Und. Confidence Men’ Lang. Und. (1981) 362/2: flue The envelope in which money is placed in any big-con or short-con game. |
6. (US black) a room, as used by a prostitute for work.
| Black Players 117: Most of the flues [...] around have an open light bulb which hide up nothing from view. |
In phrases
(US campus) to die.
| Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 14: go up the flue. To die. | |
| Sun (NY) 30 Jan. 15/6: ‘I suppose if yer die th’ fourth time th’ lodge goes up th’ flue!’. |
1. in pawn.
| Real Life in London I 566: *Up the spout, or up the flue—Are synonymous in their import, and mean the act of pledging property with a Pawnbroker for the loan of money. | |
| Oddities of London Life II 289: ‘Maty I ain't got no “tin,” take my new tile and go and shove it up the flue for a bob’. | |
| ‘Culture in the Slums’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 179: Suppose I put ’em up the flue, / And booze the profits, Joe? Not me. | |
| Hole in the Wall (1947) 70: She’s hypotenused, Cap’en Kemp; pawned, as you might say; up the flue. |
2. in trouble.
| Modern Flash Dict. 35: Up the flue – being in trouble, on the pot. | |
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. |
3. dead; lit. and fig.
| Morn. Post (London) 14 Nov. 3/3: He must not put his ‘Lords in Pawn’ after last night’s fashion; or. to use a slang expression, it will be ‘all up the flue’ with him. | |
| ‘Great Liberal Majority of 110’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 110: His hopes are up the flue. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Aug. 15/3: Mortal combat will ensue / Over jackass, dingo, ’roo, / Someone will go up the flue / Soon or late; / And there’ll be a shock in store / For our Ed. (when he’s no more), / When he wildly shall implore / At heaven’s gate. |
4. physically or mentally run down.
| Dict. Amer. Sl. 58: up the flue, flume or spout. Gone flooey; ruined. |
5. pregnant.
| ‘She’s Up the Flue’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF 33: She’s up the flue, she’s up the flue, / Oh Jesus Christ Almighty, what shall I do? | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Up the flue / In the family way (n): pregnant. |
(orig. US Western, mainly black) to eat.
| Log Of A Cowboy 86: Reaching our wagon in time for breakfast and lining our flues with Lovell’s good chuck. | |
| in ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. |
to get drunk.
| Londinismen (2nd edn). |
In exclamations
a coarse excl. of dismissal.
| (con. WWII) Soldier Erect 136: ‘Churchill’s okay [...]’ ‘Up your flue!’. | |
| ‘Non-Stop Dancer / My Mum Song’ 🎵 on Come Again [album] If you are Cockney too / Do this fucking dancing / And shove it up your flue! |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
1. a chimney-sweep, thus flue faking/feaking, chimney sweeping.
| Vocab. of the Flash Lang. | |
| Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 20: [W]hy should not the Flue Faker enjoy the pleasures of a mill as well as the Nib Sprig? | |
| Life in London (1869) 52: The needy flue-faker [...] born without a shirt, and not a bit of scran in his cup. | |
| Mornings in Bow St. 157: Mr. George Penderoast, the principal of a flue-feaking establishment — or, in ordinary phrase, a master chimney-sweeper. | |
| ‘My Shickster Molly’ in Knowing Chaunter 43: There’s Joe, the flue-faker, vith scorn passes by. | |
| Worcs. Chron. 8 Sept. 3/2: Thomas Hurst, Esq., in the black and dismal line, vulgo, a flue-faker. | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 8 Aug. 3/3: Mary Beech swore an assault against William Porten, a flue-faking operative of Wood's Buildings, Pitt-street. | |
| New and Improved Flash Dict. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
| Vocab. and Gloss. in True Hist. of Tom and Jerry 175: Flue Fakers. Chimney sweeps. |
2. (racing) ‘low sporting characters, who are so termed from their chiefly betting on the Great Sweeps’ (sweepstakes) (Hotten, 1860).
| Tom and Jerry I v: You have [...] sported your blunt with the flue fakers and gay tyke boys on the phenomenon monkey – seen that gamest of all buffers, Rumpty-tum with the rats. | |
| ‘The Bastard’s Christening’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 12: There vos leery Joe, the flue faker, / Who’d just left the Stone Pitcher. | |
| , | | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
| Melbourne Punch ‘City Police Court’ 3 Oct. 234/1: The Mayor.– Well my flying sawney hunter [...] you were reported to me as being scammered with some multee kertever flue fakers in a flatty ken. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |