Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the penis.

1593		Passionate Morrice (1876) 54: He [...] of a coye queane, was pleased by her, with wagging his bawble and ringing his bell, while she pickt his pocket and cut his purse.
1595		Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet II iii: This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
c.1619		Rowley All’s Lost by Lust III iii: [I am] for the tongue, not for the bauble.
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 22-30 Nov. 5: A Plot in Jack Pudding’s Cod-piece, to infect young teeming Women with his great Fool’s-Bauble.
1658		Mennis & Smith ‘The Bursse of Reformation’ Wit Restor’d (1817) 139: Heers childrens bawbles and mens too, / To play with for delight / Heer’s roundheads when turn’d every way / At length will stand upright.
a.1661		‘The Rebells Reign’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 315: He was ill at Command, but worse at a stand, / So they sought out another more able: / Then Fair undertakes, but Nol keeps the stakes, / And sends away Fax with a bauble.
1672		S. Butler ‘Dildoides’ in Rochester & Others Works (1739) 187: Men would kind Husbands seem, and able, / With feign’d lust, and borrow’d Bawble.
1683		‘Satire on Whigs and Tories’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 125: But thou’rt a formal, stiff, vain, thoughtless fool [...] Who has no bauble fit for common use.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 550: May my bauble be turn’d into a nut-cracker.
1705–07		N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:6 10: Your poor Deserts would scare be able / To find you Trouzers to your Bauble.
1748		Spy on Mother Midnight II 5: [D]isconsolate Widows may be supported by a Stick of true English Oak and not oblig’d to spend their Substance on foreign [i.e. ‘Greeks, Jews and Infidels’] Baubles of an enormous Size but bad Metal.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

2. (also bawbels, bawbles, baws) in pl., the testicles.

1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 30 Nov.-6 Dec. 7: For shame Old-cooks destroy not Eggs in bawbles / When the good souls do need them to make Cawdles.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 677: My sweet wife shall hold the combat, Long as my baws can on her bum beat.
1744		Machine 4: With red Bag pendant on your Baws below, / To keep off aught from putrid Mass may flow.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Bawbels, or Bawbles. Trinkets; a man’s testicles.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 48: Brimborions (les), m. 1. The testes; ‘bawbels’.