Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. time; thus kill the enemy, to pass time; how’s the enemy? what says the enemy?, what time is it?

1838–9		Dickens Nicholas Nickleby (1982) 239: ‘How goes the enemy, Snobb?’ asked Sir Mulberry Hawke. ‘Four minutes gone.’.
1845		R.S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I 142: ‘Let’s see ’ow the enemy goes’. Having pulled out his great ticker and forgot to look at it [etc.].
1864		Glasgow Citizen 19 Nov. n.p.: The swell who is bored by his efforts to kill the enemy [F&H].
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 95: Bampton calls time the enemy, and amuses himself by watching his retreat, and wishing it was four o'clock.
1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 129: ENEMY, time [...] ‘what says the enemy?’ i.e., how goes the time?
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 26: Enemy, time, as ‘What says the enemy?’ - what time is it.
1898		W. Pett Ridge Mord Em’ly 57: ‘How’s the enemy?’ asked Miss Gilliken [...] He [...] replied that it wanted twenty-five to ten.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 20/1: Second Grand Ox: ‘Ain’t it a bit late, sonny? Le’me see! how’s the enemy?’ / First Grand Ox: ‘O’, she’s al’ ri’, she’s ’sleep.’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 404: Enemy? Avuncular’s got my timepiece.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks n.p.: Prisoners’s enemy No. 1, time.

2. the penis.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1987		personal ad, adult bookstore Murray & Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism (1989) 63: Dominatrix can tame even the biggest and ugliest of enemies.

3. the vagina.

1896

Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 108: Ennemi, f. 2. The female pudendum; ‘the enemy’.