garden n.
1. the vagina, thus garden hedge, the female pubic hair.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | A Rapture (1927) 7: O’re all the Garden, taste the ripened Cherry, / The warme, firme Apple, tipt with corall berry. | |
| London Jilt pt 1 82: There were four more besides himself, who sometimes made use of occasion to come and cultivate my Garden of Love . | |
| Ladies Delight 3: Ladies love it in their Garden. | |
| Belle’s Stratagem 28: The garden has been so often enjoy’d by others, there can be no pleasure for me. | |
| Fair Circassian 20: Delights so sweet the springs and grottos give, That in thy garden I would ever live. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Flash (NY) 31 Oct. n.p.: It was not one Adam only whom she invited to partake of the forbidden fruit. All the workmen in the shop helped her to cultivate the garden. | |
| late 17C ballad q. in Sporting World 19 Apr. 50/1: I depend on my Doe, / Who, a garden-stuff draper, trulls out on the cadge / With her ruffledum, puffledum, frizzledum madge! | |
| Fast Man 7:1 n.p.: [T]he Colonel, having denuded of its flowers the garden which had attracted him, amputated his logwood for Edinburgh. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 7: Ager, m. The female pudendum; ‘the garden’. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 1: I’ve been sadly let down / By the tool of a fool in a garden. | |
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| Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 193: The third and most numerous group of fruit and vegetable synonyms comes from analogy with the corresponding feminine terms, so that the gardener tends the garden or cabbage patch. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | (con. 17C) ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 62: By the nineteenth century garden had also come to refer to genitals, thus garden hedge (female pubic hair). | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 29: [fr. Lat. hortus, a garden] Madame O’s acting career disappeared up her bushy hortus almost as soon as it was exposed. |
2. pubic hair.
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| Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words. | |
| Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 131: Pubes […] chuff, Fort Bushy, fur, garden, grass, lawn, mowed lawn if shaved. |
In compounds
the penis.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 172: Lavette, f. The penis; ‘the garden-engine’. |
see separate entry.
see separate entries.
In phrases
see under drag v.1
the vagina.
| Sparagus Garden II ii: You must thither, to the Garden of delight, where you must have it drest and eaten in the due kind; and there it is so provocative, and so quicke in the hot operation. |
1. the vagina.
| Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 192: A poor Woman in Wells, having unlawfully acted in the Garden of Venus, proved with Child. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 220: Pré, m. The mons veneris; ‘The Garden of Eden’. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 117: I’ve frequently peed in / The Garden of Eden. | |
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
2. (N.Z. prison) Mount Eden Men’s Prison.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 76/2: Garden of Eden, the n. Mount Eden Men’s Prison, Auckland. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a comb.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
(UK Und.) information, i.e. against one’s confederates [link should be to grass v.2 (1) but chron. fails to support this].
| Illus. Police News 3 Nov. 4/1: What does ‘garden stuff’ mean? It means to give information to the police. | |
| Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 101: Each believing that the other has informed of him, whilst ‘Scotty’ was wild with both, telling them that they had been using ‘garden stuff,’ meaning that they had been giving information. |
(US campus) a sexually promiscuous woman, a ‘whore’.
| Campus Sl. Nov. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 16: These slang items seem just as fresh and viable as 1992’s [...] garden tool (from hoe, the pronunciation of whore with the -r dropped) for ‘promiscuous female’. |
see violet n.