you know what n.
1. the vagina.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Why do you Trifle?’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 8: I’m sure I have as good a – You know what [...] Come let us do then, you know what. | |
| Barnabees Journal III Q6: To the Hole of Sara came I, / Once a bona-roba, trust me, Though now buttock-shrunke and rustie; [...] Her I caught by you know what-a. | |
| ‘O Watt where art tho’ in Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript of Loose and Humorous Songs (1868) 123: Cynthias you know whatt. | |
| ‘Virgin’s Complaint’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) V 178: I have something, you know what, Yet no Man comes to wooe me. | |
| (ed.) Jemmy Twitcher’s Jests 94: I kindly felt her — you know what. | |
| ‘John Long and His — I Know What’ in Funny Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 36: John Long Miss Wiggins lov’d, and he / Up very early got, / To go to Kensington and she, / And taste her — I know what. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: The you know what, with its vermillion lips, and downy substance around the mouth. | |
| Loves of Venus 43: He slipped his hand up my thighs behind till he got hold of you know what[and] and] I positively allowed him to finger me at pleasure. | |
| (con. 1910s) in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 725: Polka-dot hose and Spanish shawl, / And her little you-know-what paid for it all. | |
| Georgia 27: [H]er body [...] was naked except for a patch of rhinestones that covered her you-know-what . | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 109: Carvel’s ring also became a euphemism for you-know-what. |
2. the penis.
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: [They] would pass their time, in taking you know what between their fingers and dandling it, till it did revive and creep up to the stiffness of a suppository. | |
| ‘Dick the Plowman’ Pepys Ballads (1987) III 170: Richard, give me that, I need not name it, you know what. | |
| ‘Gossip’s Visit’ in Miscellaneous Works IV 28: [She will] lye with any Man to ease her, That has but you know what to please her. | |
| song title in Funny Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 35: John Long and His — I Know What. | |
| Kryptadia II in (1968) 344: His you-know-what was you-know-where; / If that wasn’t fucking, then I wasn’t there. | |
| Clueless [film script] dionne: Puny. I like ’em big. cher: Ooh, I hate muscles. tai: You know I don’t really care either way. Oh, just as long as his you-know-what isn’t that crooked. I really hate that. |
3. sexual intercourse.
| ‘Why do you Trifle?’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 8: I’m sure I have as good a – You know what [...] Come let us do then, you know what. | |
| [ | | Vinegar and Mustard B: Thou shouldst well know, that I was never such a jade as to tire as thou didst, thou common Hackney thou? for when thou and a fellow was a doing I know what thou didst cry, Dig on, dig on]. |
| [ | | ‘Ballad’ Harleian Mss. 6913.61: That trounc’d em & bounc’d ’em till they were wonderous hott Then took ’em aside to doe I know not what]. |
| ‘Cuckoo of the Times’ in The Roxburghe Ballads (1884) II 52: Under a hedge doing you know what. | |
| Satirist (London) 24 Mar. 518/2: [S]aints as well as sinners like ‘a bit of mutton!’ A man has been known to leave a chapel for you know what. | |
| Crim.-Con. Gaz. 6 Oct. 50/3: Says Sir John to his lady as together they sat, / ‘My dear, shall we sup first, or do you know what?’. | |
| Go, Man, Go! 35: I like to do other things better. Stay here and — you-know-what. | |
| Pop. 1280 in Four Novels (1983) 379: This fella, he probably says to the pig, ‘How about a little you-know-what, Piggie?’. | |
| The Same Old Grind 48: ‘All he’s interested in is you-know-what’. | |
| Dolores Claiborne 103: My Dad is trying to do you-know-what to me. | |
| Birthday 39: Maybe she had a boyfriend, a bit of you know what going on with a neighbour or the window-cleaner. |
4. (also what you know, you know) anything the speaker does not wish to name specifically; often used euph.
| [ | | Bk of Simples Fol. 27: Here is an herbe whiche light fellowes, merily will call Gallowgrasse, Neckeweede, or the Tristrams knot, or Saynt Andres lace, or a bastarde brothers badge, with a difference on the left side etc., you know my meaning]. |
| Play-House to be Let Act V: With blood of Roman your Eunuch does grow fat; Such knaves wax cruel, having lost — you know what. | |
| Feign’d Curtizans 8: As I hope to breathe, your Face shines through your pouder’d Hairs, like you know what on a Barn-door in a frosty morning. | |
| ‘In Praise of Chocolate’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 51: ’Twill make old women young and fresh, / Create new motions of the flesh, / And cause them to long for you know what, / If they but taste of Chocolate. | |
| ‘The Phlegm Pot’ No. 32 Papers of Francis Place (1819) n.p.: There’s many a fine and flashy beau, that’s taking pills for what you know. | |
| ‘The Dildoe!’ in Bang-Up Songster 17: They itch’d – and long’d – a deal, I wot, / For a little bit of you know what! | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 31 Dec. 3/2: Did you tell her you were as good as a costermonger’s — you know what, Mrs Johnson? | |
| Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iii: Quite a little run out to my place, you know — and with, you know what, I don’t care to be out too late. | |
| Look Homeward, Angel (1930) 153: ‘There are two things I want to see,’ said Mary, ‘a rooster’s you-know-what and a hen’s what-is-it.’. | |
| Your Broadway & Mine 23 May [synd. col.] [of a speakeasy] [Robert] Benchley went into a 56th street youknowwhat to have a coca-cola. | |
| I Can Get It For You Wholesale 222: Boy, oh boy! Pick me that little redhead with the you know whats. | |
| 11 Mar. [synd. col.] [of underwear] ‘I heard that you didn’t wear any, ya-know [...] so when you had to climb that ladder [etc]’. | |
| Lucifer with a Book 109: Got any you-know-what yet? Buddy Brown said to the kid. – No, sir, the kid said blushing. | |
| City of Spades (1964) 37: [of condoms] I want a taxi fare [...] and money to buy some you-know-whats. | |
| Absolute Beginners 58: I know in this country we treat the coloureds all like you-know-what. | |
| Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: I don’t give a you-know-what. | |
| Chips with Everything I ii: I got wise to the old man’s lies / And kicked him up his you know, you know, you know, you know what I mean. | |
| Inside the Und. 174: The girl being [...] you-know-what about that time. | |
| Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 168: I’ll slap the you-know-what out of you. | |
| Tales of the City (1984) 22: Just because I have some bizarre notion that my . . . you know . . . smells bad. | |
| Aussie Bull 18: I will not go into the argument of whether women are ‘catty’ [...] towards members of their own ‘you know what’. | |
| In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 8: I’d like to see the bastards that mess with children strung up by the you-know-what. | |
| Stormy Weather 186: One of the brothers flashes a gun and tells me to you-know-what. | |
| (con. late 1950s) Amaze Your Friends (2019) 208: [of money] ‘You go the you-know-what?’. | |
| ‘Mash It Up Harry’ 🎵 And he wants a bit of Wembley up his you-know-what. | |
| Pound for Pound 154: I don’t mean to be a pain in your you-know. | |
| Finders Keepers (2016) 245: Ain’t that a crock of you-know-what. | |
| Widespread Panic 85: ‘[T]o make sure that the you know what don’t hit the fan’. | |
 | Braywatch 163: ‘[H]e has to have one of his you-know-what’s removed on Monday. His balls’. | |
| Back to the Dirt 41: [of excrement] Kev passed out [...] pants around his ankles with a big old pile of you-know-what behind him. |
5. the buttocks.
| Skinny Dip 190: You promised to see a surgeon [...] About the bullet in your you-know-what. |