lay n.2
1. a person with whom one has sexual intercourse, or a promiscuous woman; usu. qualified as a good lay, a bad lay, an easy lay etc.
Lady of Pleasure V i: We could not get a lay, A tumbler, a device, a bona roba, For any money. | ||
‘Luke Caffrey’s Ghost’ in Chap Book Songs 4: You know One-ey’d Bid of de alley; / De heffer was min on de lay. | ||
It’s a Racket! 231: lay — An immoral woman; a prostitute. | ||
in Story Mar.–Apr. 46: A foursome passed homeward; two of the group were girls whom Jack and George agreed were swell lays. | ||
in Limerick (1953) 19: Said a lecherous fellow named Shea, / When his prick wouldn’t rise for a lay. | ||
None But the Lonely Heart 254: There’s some proper right looking lays up there. | ||
letter 22 Aug. in Leader (2000) 448: She’s quite nice, big tits, friendly piggy face, easy lay. | ||
Henderson The Rain King 119: She may have been a hot lay once, as she claims. | ||
City of Night 48: What a great Lay that chick is! | ||
Faggots 29: He had carted the body-builder/sociologist to Paris to seduce him, only to discover he was a lousy lay. | ||
Limericks Down Under 30: For a would-be religious / She had a prodigious / Repute as a jolly good lay. | ||
London Fields 260: You’re not a Hot Lay either, not quite. Too calculating. | ||
(con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 27: He forced himself not to take gratitude lays and found women elsewhere. | ||
Llama Parlour 63: Not only is this guy a lousy lay, but he’s also this, like, total misogynist. | ||
🌐 You’re a pretty good lay, I guess you’ve had a lot of practice. | ‘Chickenhawk’ at www.cultdeadcow.com||
Ten Storey Love Song 24: She doesn’t want to split up with him just because he’s a bad lay. | ||
(con. 1980s) Skagboys 214: A barry lay, though. Simon [...] gets ye in a fair auld lather. | ||
‘Red- Eyed Richard’ in ThugLit Dec. [ebook] He was a young guy [...] He’d been a lousy lay. | ||
Stoning 33: ‘Molly was a good woman’ [...] ‘Good lay, ya mean’. |
2. (orig. US, also lay-to) an act of sexual intercourse.
‘Investigator Reports, 1927–1929’ Committee of Fourteen Papers 44: You want a lay, don’t you? | ||
Reporter 134: Maybe I’ll get a coupla good lays out of it. | ||
(Gene Fowler) The Demi-Wang n.p.: The poor fellow had not enjoyed a lay-to since arriving in the city from abroad three months before. | ||
Tropic of Cancer (1963) 102: I had a married woman the other day who told me she hadn’t had a lay for six months. | ||
Amboy Dukes 26: What d’ya say we all give the bum a lay. | ||
Tomboy (1952) 119: He says, just like that, How about a lay? | ||
Limericks 43: Two shits and a bloody fine lay. | ||
In the Life 59: She called it a mass lay, you know, Doc, mass? Means a whole bunch at the same time. | ||
Saved Scene vi: len: What yer reckon on ’er? fred: For a lay? | ||
Street Players 55: Just give me a plain old lay. | ||
🎵 Juicin the girls up for some money and a lay. | ‘I Cram to Understand U’||
Guardian Guide 14–20 Aug. 95: It was really love, not a lay, he was after. | ||
Glorious Heresies 37: [R]umour had it that she preferred younger men, and eyewitnesses suggested the effect intensified with every lay. | ||
(con. 1991-94) City of Margins 21: [H]er fuck-up of a son’s trying to throw a lay on a girl probably just got out of her training bra. |