wimble n.
the penis.
Rabelais I 12: My gallant wimble, my pretty boarer. | (trans.)||
Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony 46: [A] sturdy Quean belabours their buttocks, till their impotent wimbles peep out of their bellies to beg a reprieve for their Tayls. | ||
‘Session of Ladies’ in Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 210: If the full royal standard falls short in the measure, What can you expect from Adonis’s wimble. | ||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 631: Panurge told me, that his prancer, alias his nimble-wimble, was like the unicorn. | (trans.)||
‘Joan to her Lady’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 81: Joan’s a Piece for Man to bore / With his Wimble, your’s no more. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 81: Joan’s a piece for a man to bore, / With his Wimble, you’s no more. | ||
‘Green Grow the Rashes’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 261: The lassies they have wimble-bores, / The widows they hae gashes, O. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 37: Bidet, m. 2. The penis; ‘the wimble.’. | ||
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 25: Octavius, whose wimble, though vigorous, was minute. |
In compounds
a heavy drinker.
Satirist (London) 26 Feb. 66/1: [N]ot forgetting other depending officers of a lower rank of our stumbling fraternity, viz., bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, suck-spigots, hawkers, spewterers, maudliners, foxcatchers. |