ferret n.2
1. the penis.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Gesta Grayorum in Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 326: Capringe Kate, of Clarkenwell, claymes to hold [...] play for five Gentlemen Ushers, each of them with a ferret and two tumblers, weekly. | |
| Two Angry Women of Abington F: And they put ferrets in the holes, fie, fie, And they go vp and downe where connies lye. | |
| Bartholomew Fair II iv: Hear for your love, and buy for your money! / A delicate ballad o’ ‘The Ferret and the Coney’. | |
| ‘Off Alle The Seaes’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 8: The Coney then betwixt her leggs / did hold my fferrett ffast. | |
 | Packet of Letters in Grosart (1879) II 47/2: A Pedlar, a Parasite, and a Pandar? and now wouldest be Connie-catcher? Sir, I haue no game for your Ferret, and therefore hunt further. | |
| ‘Of All the Seas’ in (1979) 160: I hunted up a hill, / A coney did espy; / My ferret seeing that, / into her hole did hie. | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 4 28 Mar.–3 Apr. 26: [Something] to cover those naked Conneyberries from the fury of the enemy, or the rigour of the Ferrets that might otherwise torment the Forrests of comfort. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 198: The Ferret he goes in, through flaggs thick and thin.... The Cunny she shows play, and ... Like a Cat she does spit in his Face. | |
| implied in walk one’s ferret | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 93: The randy old bastard can’t think of anything else but puttin’ his fantom ferret through the furry hoop. | |
| Breaking Out 186: I’m busting for a pee [...] So I did the obvious thing and slipped behind a couple of bushes, then gave my ferret a good run. | |
| Traveller’s Tool 56: You stand a good chance of getting the ferret through the furry hoop. | |
| Donkey’s Years 153: He had an unclean mind and could make his tool stand up at will, a ferret stirring in a sack. |
In phrases
(Aus.) to have sexual intercourse.
| (con. 1959) Up the Cross 26: [of dogs] Fenmore [...] gave the ferret a short but good run [...] Mignonette became the mother of five beaut bitser sprogs. |
(N.Z.) to masturbate.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | For the Rest of Our Lives 194: And how are you, you old bastard. You look seedy. Been walking your ferret too often, I expect. |