hung adj.
1. in the context of the body.
(a) having a large penis and/or testicles; often in phr. hung like a — (see below); thus underhung, having a small penis; well-hung adj.1
 | implied in hung like an ass | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mercurius Fumigosus 26 22–30 Nov. 223: The married man as much his Wife doth wrong, / In being hung too short, as too too long. | |
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 681: She’s kind, and ever did admire / A well-fed monk, or well-hung friar. | |
| Military Journal 22 June in Jordan White Over Black (1968) 159: I am surprized this does not hurt the feelings of this fair Sex to see these young boys of about Fourteen and Fifteen years Old to Attend them, these whole nakedness Expos’d and I can Assure you It would Surprize a person to see these d---d black boys how well they are hung. | |
| ‘The Parson’s Pimple’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 275: Well knowing he was better hung, / And must of course win for him. | |
| ‘Good Old Times’ Rakish Rhymer (1917) 107: For I’m pretty fairly hung / How I make a lady grunt, / When I shove it up her c—t ! | |
| ‘Master Humphrey’s Clock’ Rambler’s Flash Songster 8: But gents anon, be sure your weights are well hung; / For unless they are, and mind I do not joke, / Your clock can never give a good stroke. | |
| Phoebe Kissagen 51: A young girl about fourteen suits me best, as I am not big hung. | |
| Priapeia epilogue lxxx 77: Thou art not more heavily hung than is this poet of ours. | |
| Family Connections 6: What knackers [...] a boy has no business to be hung like that. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Laurel and Hardy “Doing Things”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 83: Daddy, you’re sure hung. | |
| Web and the Rock 35: Are you hung well, Monkus? | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | We Were the Rats 118: ‘My grandfather, for instance—’ ‘Pat’s was hung, too,’ said Eddie. The boys laughed. | |
| Down in the Holler 105: The preterite hung must be used with caution in elegant backwoods talk, because it has a sexual meaning in many wisecracks and anecdotes. | |
| Lavender Lex. n.p.: hung:– Having a large penis. | |
| Billy Rags [ebook] If he’d been better hung he’d have given them a demonstration [of urinating]. | |
| Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1994) 86: Nobody is hung like that. If that’s his joint I’m going to go home and blow my brains out. | |
| After The Ball 305: Hung, filthy, uncut loaded with cheese. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 178: A notoriously well hung Samoan extra named ‘O.K. Freddy’. | |
| ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 128: The underhung devotees of the Donkey Dan Dick Extender. | |
| ‘The Code’ in Brooklyn Noir 184: Mon Dieu, that boy is hung [...] But can he eat? | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 101: The guy was hung [...] Thick too [Ibid.] 102: I have enough insecurity without seeing some guy hung enough he can choke a horse. | |
| Devil All the Time 289: People said he was hung like a Shetland pony. | |
| The Force [ebook] ‘[H]e was hung. Those stallions they put out to stud? They look at Harry, they hang their heads in shame. Harry’s dick arrived at meetings two minutes before the rest of him did’. | |
| Widespread Panic 7: I’m handsome and heavy-hung. | |
| Widespread Panic 39: ‘Alan Ladd?’ ‘Dramatically underhung snatch hound. | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 137: ‘You’re nanti hung like a mealworm, are you, ducky?’. |
(b) having large breasts.
| in Profile of Youth 233: Boy, is she hung! | |
| Semi-Tough 99: A Ten was a Healing Scab. Had a bad complexion maybe, but was hung and could turn into some kind of barracuda in the rack. | |
| London Fields 46: She’s hung, too, he thought. The bitch. Remarkably, this final bonus began to have a dispiriting effect on Keith Talent. Because perfection would be no good to him. |
(c) in fig. use, well-connected, powerful.
| ‘Bureaucracy, Information, and Social Control [etc.]’ in Bordua Police 245: Of course, sponsors varied in the degree they were ‘hung heavy,’ (that is, influential or powerful in the organization). | |
| On the Pad 80: His father was really hung, head of the Pennsylvania Railroad police. |
2. physically run down.
(a) (US) suffering from a minor illness, e.g. a hangover [SE hungover].
| Harder They Fall (1971) 13: What’s the matter? Hung? | |
| Entry E (1961) 101: You hung? | |
| (con. 1958) Been Down So Long (1972) 44: ‘You’re all right?’ came the easy question. ‘Hung, man. And constipated.’. | |
| et al. CUSS 141: Hung Have a minor illness, feel sick. | |
| Sl. U. |
(b) drunk.
| ‘The Be-Bop Santa Claus’ 🎵 There they sat, hung / [...] / Goofed on sherry, eggnog, and beer. | |
| ‘Miscellany’ in AS XXXIII:3 225: Drunks are hung, too, as well as fractured, blind, and destroyed. |
3. in emotional contexts [hung up adj.].
(a) (orig. US) depressed or upset.
| Harder They Fall (1971) 17: What’s the matter? Hung? | |
| letter 11 Feb. in Joint (1972) 113: I hope [...] he’s not too hung to do some writing when he’s finished with befuddling the peasants. | |
| Hiparama of the Classics 19: Occasionally he get his kick wharehouse so full of kicks he cain’t stick no more kicks in, and when there ain’t no place to put ’em the Poo’ Cat get Hung. | |
| Essential Lenny Bruce 164: I’m real hung behind fixing phones, man. |
(b) obsessed with or infatuated by.
| Visions of Cody (1973) 39: I mean bleak, sad, really mated, hung, like Bull with June. | |
| Hiparama of the Classics 15: We are now hung with a King Size Main Day Civil Drag! | |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 167: Don’t git too hung on that idea, man. | |
| Dry Hustle 191: I’ll come back because I’m so hung on her. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 526: Sal hung on some hunky young quiff. |
(c) in trouble, facing problems.
| Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 2: axe – Musical instrument [...] If you’re gigging, bring your money maker, your axe or you are hung, baby. | |
| Campus Sl. Mar. 6: hung – in trouble. |
In phrases
(US teen) in need of, lacking; thus hung for bread, in need of cash.
| [...] in Joint (1972) 110: I was really hung for something to read. | |
| Essential Lenny Bruce 174: I’m a little hung for bread now. | |
| Catalog of Cool 🌐 hung (adj.): Needy. ‘He’s really hung for bread.’. | |
| Neuromancer 78: ‘Who am I?’ ‘You got me hung, Jack.’. |
possessing a large penis.
| Incident at Ashton 203: Never saw a buck nigger yet that wasn't hung like a mule. | |
| in Erotic Muse (1992) 30: Oh, daughter, oh, daughter, / You were a silly fool, / To get busy with a man, / With a tool like a mule. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 110: hung like a horse [bull, old mule, showdog, stallion, stud] equipped with a large penis. | |
| Hustler 112: I told you he was hung like a bull. | |
| Drylongso 160: These white cats tell their sisters and wives and daughters and mothers too that we are hung like Brahma bulls. | |
| Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 30: It’s rumoured that they’re hung like bloody mules. | |
| Queens 117: You told me he was hung like a donkey. Didn't do anything! Anyway, I couldn't have done it. He was like a bloody lamp-post! | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 5: The star of the flick was hung like a donkey. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Salesman 100: There’s a mott in it with a mickey. Serio. Fuckin’ langer on her the size of yer own. Hung like a hoover hose. | |
| Observer Mag. 20 June 60: I chuckled in the magnanimous way of a man who is very obviously hung like a donkey. | |
| Observer Mag. 7 Nov. 13: I’m hung like a yeti. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Acid Alex 100: Later on in the showers I would discover that he had the largest wop I have ever seen on a man. He was truly hung (three inches above his knee) like a proverbial donkey. | |
| Night Gardener 360: Uncle Miltie was hung like a donkey. | |
| (con. 1972) What It Was 37: It was said that Martina was huing like a donkey, too. |
(US gay) describing a woman, i.e. one who has a vagina (a hole).
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
possessing a very small penis.
| Widespread Panic 66: ‘Tell Mr Otash he’s hung like a cashew’. |
possessing a very small penis.
| q. in Attorney General's Commission on Pornography 2 1685: No real woman would want that. Look at you, you’re hung like a hamster. | |
| Minnesota Daily 🌐 My best friend and I were talking about this because she recently slept with a guy who was (self-proclaimed) hung like a hamster. |
1. possessing a large penis; thus horse-hung adj.
| Cobweb 12: He must be hung like a horse, don't you imagine? | |
| Pop. 1280 in Four Novels (1983) 393: Probably you ain’t got as a long a dingle-dangle as he has – they tell me them idjits are hung like a stud-hoss. | |
| Numbers (1968) 204: I met this guy here . . . like a stud horse . . . bigger’n my fist . . . thought I’d never get it out. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 110: hung like a horse [bull, old mule, showdog, stallion, stud] equipped with a large penis. | |
| Great Santini (1977) 312: I couldn’t satisfy Ansley’s biological needs for three seconds if I wasn’t hung like a horse. | |
| Blowback 58: Blue swim trunks so tight you would have had to be blind to miss noticing that he was hung like a stallion. | |
| Rushes (1981) 101: I’m a straight black stud, hung like a fuckin horse. | |
| Danny Boy 57: The pork-knockers say he’s like a horse! | |
| Flame: a Life on the Game 147: He turned out to be hung like a horse. I’m not a size queen – I just like a lot. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 10: Bud heard he was hung like a horse. | |
| Sweet La-La Land (1999) 157: I just heard the sonofabitch’s hung like a stallion. | |
| Guardian G2 18 Aug. 19: He’s smart, he’s rich, he’s funny. And he’s hung like a horse. | |
| Jimmy Bench-Press 8: A pair of Mandingos [...] Black as the ace of spades. Hung like horses. | |
| www.allribbsanddick.com 🌐 Check me and other horse hung guys out at all these HOT sites! |
2. (US) having influence with the police.
| In The Cut 98: I have new words for the dictionary. [...] to be hung like a horse, to have influential connections in the police department. |
possessing a very small penis.
| Choirboys (1976) 256: He’s hung like a humming bird. He don’t wanna ball. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 17: hung like a humming bird adj. To have a gut-stick like a Chinese mouse. |
possessing a large penis.
| Guardian Guide 22–28 Jan. 5: The usual plot (sex and drugs to epic excess, hung like a jack donkey). | |
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 64: If yer hung like a jackass [...] you must be dumb as one, too! |
possessing an extremely small penis (or testicles).
| Queens’ Vernacular 110: hung like a [stud] fieldmouse to possess a small penis. | |
| Greek 56: ‘For heaven’s sake’— she laughed— ‘you’re hung like a mouse!’. | |
| Secrets 24: I’ve got better places to bend my elbow than with a guy who’s got the balls of a stud field mouse. | |
| Oedipus Cadet 128: Skinny stick hung like a field mouse. Balls no bigger’n bird shot. | |
| Queer Sl. in the Gay 90s 🌐 Hung – Well-endowed; having a large penis. The term can also be used more generally: ‘He was hung like a mouse’ means ‘he has a small penis’. | |
| USS Unbecoming 345: This tiny hole would not facilitate the ingress of a stud field mouse. Mamie has definitely never engaged in sexual intercourse. |
possessing an extremely small penis (or testicles).
| Widespread Panic 100: ‘Your wife mentioned that you’re hung like an amoeba’. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 336: Liz [Taylor] [...] motormouths. [...] Richard Burton’s hung like a light switch. |
possessing a large penis.
| Familiar Letters (1737) I 8 Sept. 45: They cut off his Genitories (and they say he was hung like an Ass) and sent them as a present to the Duke of Main. |
(US) possessing a very small penis.
| Hero Ship 171: ‘Forget him,’ Ape murmured audibly, ‘he’s hung like a stud mosquito. Look at me!’. | |
| Paranormal Mysteries Mag. 🌐 Chat room: When it comes to bleeding, she’s the champ, but that’s just because I’m not exactly hung like a mosquito. |
(US black) equipped with a notably large penis.
| ‘Upwardly Mobile Blues’ 🎵 She used to call me ‘Studly Hung Low’ / And ‘Love Muffin’ all night long. |
1. (US campus) obsessed with, fascinated by.
| ‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 243: hung out [...] 2. Obsessed with. Hung up. Involved with. |
2. (US drugs) addicted.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 243: hung out 1. Addicted to. |
(US black) obsessed with.
| Deep Down In The Jungle 266: Hung to – Very attached to, addicted. |