dew n.
1. vaginal secretions.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 37: She plentifully showers down the genial dew on whatever seed is sown in her parterre . |
2. (Anglo-Irish/US, also dew-bowl) whisky, usu. illicitly distilled.
| Satirist (London) 15 Jan. 22/2: Let’s drink the dew as on we ramble. | |
| Sporting Mag. Nov. 39: Come, send the gosson to the dunghill beyant for a dhrop of the dew, for the divil a [...] still-hunter or potteen spy is among us. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Stray Subjects (1848) 81: Jest fetch on your ‘prary dew’ for the hull lot, and d--- the expense. | |
| Cincinnati Enquirer 7 Sept. 10/7: Lush, Budge, Bilge-water, Tamshack, Fire-water, Tangle-foot, Elixir, Dew-bowl, and various other terms denote whisky. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dead Bird (Sydney) 18 Oct. 6/3: [The] Rooster gave him to drink of the dew of Ben Nevis. | |
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 108/1: Dew o’ Ben Nevis (Lond. and Min. Taverns). A fortunate name discovered by a Scotch distiller to distinguish his whiskey. [...] ‘Twa o’ bennevis’ (the ’e’ pronounced short) is a common request, always complied with in the hard-working land o’ cakes. | |
| Long Good-Bye 173: The roses nod their heads with dew. Maybe I’m a rose. Brother, have I got dew. |
3. (US drugs) marijuana [ref. is to illegality, i.e. ext of sense 1, rather than any image of wetness].
| (con. 1970) 13th Valley (1983) 394: Break out the dew. Them dudes need a toke. | |
 | in Dusted Mag. at Trikont.com 🌐 As capitalism and debauchery proceeded from flirtation to full-tilt codependency, the media needed a patsy. The dew was scapegoated for political reasons outside the scope of, uh, a record review. |
4. (US gay) oily sweat exuded by the anus.
| Queens’ Vernacular 61: dew oily sweat secreted from the anus. |
SE in slang uses
In derivatives
sweaty, exuding perspiration.
| Mirror of Life 23 Nov. 10/2: no amount of physical exercise [...] will cause him to feel, in the polite vernacular of the American young lady [...] a little dewy. |
In compounds
(US black) a very dark-skinned male.
| Black Jargon in White America 62: dewbaby n. a dark-skinned, black male. |
1. those who get up early, i.e. before the dew has evaporated.
| Memorial of John Williams Pt 1 57: The Dew-beaters have trod the way for those that come after them. | |
| Isle of Wight Obs. 23 June 4/9: A match was played [...] betwen the second eleven of the Isle of Wight club, and the eleven of the ‘Dew-beaters’ (a club formed of the young men [...] who rise early in the morning [so] they get two or three hours of play before commencing their usual day duties). |
2. (UK Und.) the feet.
| ‘A Cant Song’ Muses Delight 177: I darken’d his daylights, and sew’d up his sees, / And up with my dew-beaters tript him. | |
| Hist. of the Two Orphans IV 100: Goutify your dewbeaters, said she, what right have you to ask questions of me? | |
| Life’s Painter 154: I gave him such a gallows snatch of the dew-beaters that he was dead near twenty minutes by the sherif’s watch before the other two. | |
| Dict. Sl. and Cant. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Peveril of the Peak IV 12: ‘First hold out your dew-beaters till I take off the darbies.’ ‘Is that usual?’ said Peveril, stretching out his feet as the fellow directed, while his fetters were unlocked. | |
| Modern Flash Dict. | |
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. | |
| Vocabulum. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 23: Dew Beaters, feet. | |
| Londinismen (2nd edn). |
a drink served to farm labourers before they start work.
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
see separate entries.
the feet.
| Londinismen (2nd edn). |
the labia.
| at www.asstr.org 🌐 Cherry would sit for hours and squeeze her shag bag tight, [...] She would stick her finger in and squeeze her dew-flaps around it, gauging how tight she felt. |
the feet.
| Londinismen (2nd edn). |