pipkin, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pipkin n.¹

[SE pipkin, a small, earthenware pot]

1. the female genitals; thus cracked pipkin n., a vagina that has been deflowered.

1654		implied in crack a pipkin
1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 95: He has put her into his bar, in hopes some time or other she may stop her crack’d pipkin upon some fool of a drawer.
1709		N. Ward Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 270: The new Convert, after the first Surrender of her unhancel’d Pipkin, to be oblig’d [...] to treat the whole Tickle-Fool Society with such a plentiful Bowl of Punch.
1835		‘The Maiden’s Small Pipkin’ in Fanny Hill’s New Friskey Chanter in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 352: Said she, I’ve fine vessels, and a nice little pipkin, / Which your welcome to handle as long as you please.

2. the stomach.

1821		W.T. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry III i: Aye, aye, be leary, Bob, take care of your ribs – mind your pipkin – be down on your pimple.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn).
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.

3. the head.

1820		‘Peter Corcoran’ ‘King Tims the First’ in Fancy 24: Love! it makes a crack’d and empty pipkin of the head!
1822		‘The Sprees of Tom, Jerry and Logick’ in C. Hindley James Catnach (1878) 124: They smash’d their lanterns, kick’d their shins, and did their pipkins crack.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 6: Block – jemmy, pipkin, head.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1856		in G.D. Atkin House Scraps (1887) 155: Or else some morning, ere the man has lunched, / The Publisher may get his pipkin punched.

crack a pipkin (v.) (also crack one’ dish, crack one’s pipkin) [SE crack/crack v.² (2a)]

1. to lose one’s virginity, to break one’s hymen.

1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 30 20–27 Dec. 235: Two Maids sticking Windows with Rosemary and Bayes, the one that was below, giving the other a touch, made her fall backward and crack her Pipkin.
1681		‘Animadversions on the Lady Marquess’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V:1 67: For if you should your Pipkin crack, you Credit will way.
c.1685		‘The Lass of Lynn’s New Joy’ in Ebsworth Bagford Ballads (1878) I 467: This day on his Knees he Swore / he Lov’d me above his Life, / Were it not my Pipkin Crackt before, / I vow I would be his Wife.
1741		Secret Hist. of Betty Ireland (9 edn) 13: Look you, Mother [...] I know you deal in brittle Ware, but if you promise that the Pipkin is not cracked, I will become a Purchaser.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: She has Crackd her Pitcher, or Pipkin, i.e. lost her Maidenhead.
1836		‘Mister Bone & His Mutton’ in Gentleman’s Private Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 376: ’Twas a fact, the dish got crack’d, / And he completely diddled her out of her mutton.

2. to take a woman’s virginity.

1773		cartoon caption 29 Nov. You’ve Crack’d my pipkin, Sr, said she, so marry me and Mend it.
1835		‘The Maid’s Small Pipkin’ in Fanny Hill’s New Friskey Chanter in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 352: When she says I’m now ruin’d, what have you been doing, / I declare that my nice little pipkin you’ve crack’d.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 889/1: late C.17–early 19.