gherkin n.
(Aus. prison) the penis.
 | More Limericks 431: ‘I’d have cut off his gherkin / To use when I’m perkin’ / But he willed the damned thing to some charity’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Chocolate Frog (1973) 31: Shirker: Yer had a terrible choice, all right: whether yer’d insert the gherkin, or back onto it . | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Gherkin. Penis. |
In phrases
to masturbate.thus n. gherkin jerkin’.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Limerick (1953) 271: There was a young fellow named Perkin / Who always was jerkin’ his gherkin. | |
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 65: While the other bastards are busy getting the dirty water off their chests, a bloke like me runs the risk of goin’ blind jerkin’ the gherkin. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| A Stretch of the Imagination (2000) 137: A last jerk of the gherkin... just in case [...] I’d like to die erect. | |
| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 199: In any case, we would all agree that […] to pump one’s pickle or jerk one’s gherkin (Canadian terms, these) is not so satisfactory as to lay a wench. | |
| Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 73: JERKIN’ THE GHERKIN — Male masturbation. | |
| Memoirs of an Old Bastard 197: In no time at all she was under the table, jerking at my shrivelled gherkin. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Jerkin’ the gherkin. Masturbation. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: jack off v. To choke the chicken (qv); jerkin’ the gherkin. | |
| ‘U4ME’ (poem) on Originality 🌐 Jerkin the gherkin, grating the carrot / Wiping the pipe, strangling the parrot. | |
| Australian (Sydney) 12 Jan. 18/2: Then, in the midst of yet another agitated burst of gherkin jerkin’, he turned around [Simes:DLSS]. |
In exclamations
(Aus.) excl. of accentuation.
| Tar Dust 24: ‘You jes’ don’t appreciate a thing of beauty’ Dingo looked hurt. ‘Me flippin’ gherkin, I do’. |