saddle n.
1. the vagina, in fig. sense of ‘that which is ridden’.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Life and Repentance of Marie Magdalene D4: If neuer so title backward you chaunce to slippe, Up into your saddle forsooth I am redy to skippe. | |
| Euphues and his England (1916) 230: Lucilla is dead [...] wring not a horse on the withers with a false saddle. | |
| Honest Whore Pt 2 (1630) IV i: Here in our Citty, all our sex are but foot-cloth Nags: the Master no sooner lights, but the man leapes into the saddle. | |
| I Would and Would not I in Grosart (1879) 6/1: I would I were a Cuckold Wittall Asse, And car’d not who did mount my Hackney Saddle. | |
| Anatomy of Melancholy 3.3.1.2: A beggars brat bred by him from his cradle, / And now was riding on his masters saddle. | |
| Novella I i: A young man shall not shortly venture to / A vaulting Schoole for feare he jumpe in the / Same sadle with his Father. | |
| Gentleman of Venice III i: What limb of wantonesse have you ready for My Noble friend here, get him a fine flesh saddle. | |
| Parliament of Women A4: I confess he is saddle-nos’d and saddlebackt too, but never could set the saddle on the right horse. | |
| Reformation III ii: Once [they] come towards fifteen are so gamesome, there’s no riding them without a curb, nay then ’tis ten to one but that they fling the first Adventurer out of the Saddle too. | |
| Whores Rhetorick 203: They are very beneficial when not detected, but are often discredited by being over-acted by some indiscreet Whores [...] as if they had been bred to the great Saddle. | |
| ‘A Trip to Jamaica’ in Writings (1704) 147: The Jilt [...] for her Security, makes her Rider Pay for his Journey, before he mounts the Saddle. | |
 | Almanack-Husband 6: Too vigourous for our Libertine, and so often [she] flung him out of the Saddle, that he soon quitted her Stirrup and resolv’d to mount there no more. | |
| (trans.) Erasmus’ Colloquies 450: A fine sort of a Knight, that can scarce sit in a Saddle for the Pox! | |
| Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 114: An amorous Fit seiz’d his Honour, and he mounted the Saddle for the Performance of Family Duty. | |
| Voyage to Lethe 7: So putting his Foot in the Stirrup, up he got, and being in the Saddle, the Husband gave him three Strokes on the Breach. | |
| Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 127: You will surely be thrown out of the saddle, though ever so good a rider [...] for enjoyment rises so near to madness with her. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Memoirs of Madge Buford 133: John quickly sprang into her saddle and her husband into mine, riding gallantly. | |
| Paradise Alley (1978) 76: The slobs come in and we take their two bits and throw them in the saddle. | |
| ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 I rubbed in plenty of it around Dionne’s aris and then got back into her saddle again. | |
| Leather Maiden 188: ‘You’re riding in her saddle, aren’t you?’. |
2. (US gambling) in numbers, the n. a combination of two numbers on which one bets.
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 16 Oct. 54/2: More recent efforts of genius in the science of policies [i.e. numbers, the n. (1)] have invented ‘horses,’ ‘gigs,’ ‘whips’ and ‘saddles’ [...] those being fancy combinations. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 15 Nov. 14/3: Many a colored man and woman has pledged his or her shoes to get money enough to purchase a ‘gig,’ or a ‘cross-gig,’ or a ‘saddle’. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 5 Nov. 10/2: Besides ‘gigs,’ there are ‘saddles,’ ‘capitals,’ ‘horses,’ ‘cross-plays’ and ‘station numbers.’ Gigs pay $100 for one, capital saddles $500 for a dollar, and station numbers $60. |
3. (UK tramp) an overcoat.
| Secrets of Tramp Life Revealed 8: Saddle ... A Coat. |
SE in slang uses
In derivatives
(US) a saddle-horse.
| Boston Jrnl 16 June 1/1: Another auction sale of choice family horses (including matched pairs and saddlers) [DA]. | |
| N.-Y. Trib. 17 July n.p.: Mrs Roosevelt rode her favorite saddler Yganka [DA]. | |
| Boston Sun. Globe 1 May 11/2: Gil had more saddlers than he needed [DA]. |
In compounds
a louse.
| DSUE (1984) 1005/2: C.19–20; ob. |
(UK juv.) a promiscuous girl.
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 saddle bag n. 1) girl (usu.) supposedly of ‘easy virtue’, i.e. available for sexual purposes when required. |
1. the excess flesh around the upper thighs.
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Winnipeg Free Press 19 Aug. 26/2: We call them saddle bags—a common feminine affliction which shows up in a bathing suit. | |
| Skin Tight 40: You could use a little suction around the saddlebags. | |
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 saddle bag n. [...] used by women to describe extra layers of fat on their hips, e.g. ‘I’ve got to get rid of these saddle bags.’. | |
| slate.com 22 June 🌐 Only complete scumbags would insult a woman's breasts, nipples, saddlebags or genitals in an argument. |
2. the labia majora; the scrotum.
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: saddle bags n. 1. Labia; piss flaps. 2. Scrotum. As in John Wayne’s hairy saddlebags. |
3. (US) darkened flesh under the eyes, indicating lack of asleep, stress, etc.
| Hard Bounce [ebook] Dark saddlebags camped under his eyes, matching my own. |
1. (US) a sanitary towel.
| ‘A Visit from Aunt Rose’ in Verbatim Winter n.p.: Pads or tampons [...] have their own euphemisms: mouse mattresses, the white horse, manhole cover, coyote sandwich, saddle blankets, teddy bears, and the industry-sanctioned [...] feminine supplies. |
2. see horse blanket under horse n.
(US gay, west.) a sexual partner.
| (con. late 19C) ‘Western frontier gay slang’ on Twitter 2 Mar. 🌐 ‘Saddle buddies’ were partnerships who enjoyed each other's bodies. |
(UK police/und.) ears.
| No Hiding Place! 191/1: Saddle Flaps. Ears. |
(Aus.) a farm worker.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Word Map 🌐 saddle frigger. male station worker/jackaroo/farm worker [...] ‘Also known as “goat rooter”. One who fits the stereotype is excited by farmin', is decked out in RM's, a cowboy hat, tight jeans and workshirt‘. |
the skin of the buttocks.
| DSUE (1984) 1005/1: mid-C.19–20. |
tired or injured through excessive riding.
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue . |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Diamond Necklace 2/2: Roland [...] got tough beef to chew, or even went dinnerless; was saddle-sick, caluminated, constipated. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Aberdeen Press 16 Oct. 5/3: Some were getting saddle-sick seemingly. | |
| Aberdeen People’s Jrnl 16 Oct. 5/3: Dr Balfour [...] rode up from Glasgow on horseback and was very ‘saddle-sick’. |
(US) a cowboy who moves from ranch to ranch, dependent for survival on local hospitality.
| Gems of Promise 240: Still leaping from side to side, the saddle tramp ran on in the face of the kidnaper's now silent weapon. | |
| Cowboy Lingo 27: The professional ‘chuck-line rider’ was just a plain ‘range bum’ or ‘saddle tramp’ and was despised by all cowboys. | |
| ‘Rope Meat’ in Wild West Weekly 22 Oct. 🌐 Yo’re shore a right good feller, pard, ter let a pore saddle tramp dig inter yore grub. | |
| ‘Killer’s Cue’ in Range Riders Western Jan. 🌐 My daughter marry that saddle bum? | |
| Long Run (1983) 111: This saddle-tramp—. | |
| (con. c.1900) King Blood (1989) 50: All the God damn’ saddle-tramps an’ nesters an’ their God damn’ families for miles around. | |
| Eng. Creek 13: You will End Up as Nothing More Than a Gimped-Up Saddle Stiff. | |
| Cuba Libre Ch. 1 🌐 ‘I’m trying to think,’ Tyler said, sounding tired from a life of scratching by and those years busting rocks, his long legs stretched out, run-down boots resting on the porch rail. A saddle tramp, if Charlie Burke didn’t know better. |
In phrases
1. engaged in sexual intercourse.
| [ | | Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 99: He was too firm fix’d in the saddle for me to compass flinging him, with all the struggles I could use]. |
| ‘The Adventures of a Fuller Brush Man: “Obligin Lady”’ [comic strip] Hurry up and crawl into the saddle before I change my mind. | |
| ‘Mae West in “The Hip Flipper”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 93: Then Schnozzolla crawled into the saddle. | |
| ‘Milly and the Porker’ in Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 196: Listen, Porky, you’re too goddamned fat to get in the saddle with a jane like Milly. | |
| One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 38: He no sooner in the saddle an we is jes bout ready t’raise hell. | |
| in Law Unto Themselves 24: Men speak of being ‘in the saddle’ when they refer to their position on the top of the woman. | |
| Southern Discomfort (1983) 58: He died in the saddle. | |
| ‘Finding Your Own Feet’ in Zoom 72: Dempsey would have given / his right arm to be as hot in the saddle / as he was in the ring. | |
| Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] I liked the lying back bit [...] you’re [i.e. a woman] born to the saddle. | |
| ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 365: The plan was photo shakes. You know, I shoot the old girls and Donny’s in the saddle, and we threaten to show the pix to the husbands. | |
| Hilliker Curse 7: I didn’t see the Main Blonde or my dad in the saddle. | |
| Bad Sex on Speed 120: Rockefeller died in the saddle. Rumor had it he was riding a twenty-three year old. | |
| Widespread Panic 109: She socked the saps into the saddle and made with the moans. |
2. in charge, in control.
| You Gotta Be Rough 283: The Prince and his retainers kept silent about what they had seen. Silence was healthy in Sicily with the Mafia in the saddle. | |
| et al. DAUL 184/1: Saddle (’In the saddle’). A position of control, especially behind a gun. | |
| Veeck — as in Wreck 365: [I]t was obvious from the beginning that the Brown-Autry group was in the saddle. | |
| Faggots 20: One William Boner in the saddle. |
3. menstruating.
| AS 29 298: [Vernacular of menstruation], Reference to material culture [...] saddle (M[en] and W[omen]); back in the saddle (M[en] and W[omen]). | |
| Ozark Folksongs and Folklore I 379: To say that an ‘old woman’, meaning wife, has died ‘with rag in her ass,’ means while menstruating or ‘in the saddle’. |
(US drugs) the equipment used for smoking opium.
| ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 108/2: saddle-and-bridle. An opium smoker’s lay-out. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |