pump-handle n.
1. the penis.
‘Gee Ho, Dobin’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 204: Then Roger’s Pump handle ran the Devil knows where. | ||
Tristram Shandy (1949) 338: Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles – and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association? | ||
Honest Fellow [as 1730]. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular. | ||
Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 194: The engineer [is represented] with his derrick, screwdriver, rogering iron, piston and pumphandle. |
2. a long nose.
Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Jan. 21/1: Probiscis Vulgaris, or Common Pump-handle. A long projecting nose. |
3. a vigorous handshake.
Londonderry Standard 18 Oct. 4/2: Of the varied expressions that characterise the act of shaking hands [...] the pump-handle shake first deserves notice. | ||
Burnley Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/3: The shake [...] already described as the ‘pump handle’. | ||
‘Gorilla Grogan’ in Bulletin (Sydney) 26 July 40/2: ‘Saved!’ he says, grabbin’ me by the mitt and shakin’ it like a pump-handle. |
4. the hand.
Torchy 44: Dicky lets out a roar, [...] works the pump handle, and talks a blue streak. |
5. (Aus.) an arm.
Digger Dialects 39: pump-handle — Arm. | ||
(con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: pump handle. Arm. |