keyhole n.
the vagina.
Westward Hoe V i: Puh, good maister Lynstocke, Ile not stand by whilst you giue Fire at your Key-holes. | ||
Sodom in Ashbee Centuria Librorum Asconditorum (1879) 339: V i: They’re apt to utter their complaints before / They come to find the keyhole of the door. | (attrib.)||
A Dreadful Fire 5: Here’s Peter’s Key, and as you Sit, / Let’s try how Peter’s Key will fit / Thy Key-hole. | ||
[song title] You’ve Got The Right Key, But The Wrong Keyhole. | ||
Beale Black & Blue 116: Some of his Memphis friends were afraid he’d tell the one about why he had broken off a long-standing relationship with a woman friend: ‘My key,’ he would say impishly, ‘don’t fit her keyhole no more.’. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
1. one who sleeps in barns or outhouses, thus a tramp or vagrant.
, | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | |
(con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 311/1: ‘Keyhole whistlers,’ the skipper-birds are sometimes called, but they’re regular travellers. | ||
Autobiog. of a Gipsey 413: A rough lot they were [...] reg’lar keyhole whistlers the lot of ’em, skipperin’ it for choice when they’d got the price of a doss about ’em. |
2. (US Und.) a criminal in hiding.
Und. Speaks. |