watch (chain) and seals n.
1. the male genitals.
Belle’s Stratagem 3: Maas Ogul’s fille de chambre, Riggeltail, had a very grand design to ravish me of [...] my vatch, mi Lord, and de two stones dat hang to it — de seals. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. a sheep’s head and pluck, i.e. heart, liver and lungs.
Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Watch, Chain, and Seals. A sheep’s head And pluck. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 244: WATCH AND SEALS, a sheep’s head and pluck. | ||
Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1860]. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Aus. Sl. Dict. 93: Watch and Heals [sic], a sheep’s head and pluck. | ||
Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 6/4: Yet behold the perversity of the language When the thief speaks of a watch and seals he doesn’t mean jewellery at all, but just a sheep's head and pluck. |