nick, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nick n.²

[SE nick, a notch, a groove, a slit]

1. the vagina.

c.1720		‘Old Song’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 223: And in the nick he seiz’d her, She trembled, blush’d, and hung her head.
1736		Cupid 129: So in the nick the Nymph was finely fitted [F&H].
a.1749		Robertson of Struan ‘Epigram on Chloe’ Poems (1752) 186: And as one guides me to the Nick, / The other cries – Put up thy -----.
1772		G. Stevens ‘The Sentiment Song’ Songs Comic and Satyrical 126: The Nick makes the Tail stand, the Farrier’s Wife’s Mark.
1798		‘The Blue Vein’ in Hilaria 61: Kitty, the house-maid, so frisky and fair, / Who smelt none the sweeter for carrotty hair [...] Was candidly told, that her nature was lewd, / While feeling the vein near her gold-girted nick.
1835		‘The Blue Vein’ Fanny Hill’s Bang-up Reciter [as 1798].
1842		‘Toasts & Sentiments’ Nobby Songster 47: Poison to him who does not love ars-an-nic.
1865		‘The Love Feast’ T.P. Lowry Stories the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell (1994) ) 58: When quite undressed, the bower of bliss / Dissolved in one warm rush of piss / Whose briny jet bedewed the nick.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 584: How delicious it was to get the fingers on to the wet nick of that pretty girl.
1902		Lovely Nights of Young Girls (1970) 117: Take it away — Oh me! how thick! / You must not place it in my Nick.

2. the cleft of the buttocks.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 790: late C.19–20.

nick-pot (n.) [the placing of a nick or dent in the bottom of the pot]

1. a false measure in a pot of beer.

1624		Skelton Elynour Rummynge (rev. edn) in Harleian Misc. I (1744–46) 476: Our pots were full quarted, We were not thus thwarted, With froth-canne and nick-pot.
1628		Robin Goodfellow, His Mad Pranks and Merry Jests D3: There was a Tapster that with his pots smalnesse, and with frothing of his drinke, had got a good summe of money together. This nicking of the pots he would not neuer leaue.
1707		N. Ward London Terraefilius II 22: The Profitable Practice of Old Nicking and Frothing.

2. a publican.

1602

Rowlands Greene’s Ghost Haunting Coniecatchers C3: A necessarie caveate for victuallers and nick-pots, how to beware of such insinuating companions.

nick and froth (n.) [a dent in the bottom of the pot and an excess of frothy head on top]

1. a false measure in a pot of beer; occas. as v. (see cite 1639).

1613		Rowlands Knave of Hearts 48: We must be Tapsters running vp and downe With Cannes of Beere [malt sod in fishes broth] And those they say are fil’d with Nick and Froth.
1630		J. Taylor ‘Travels of Twelve-pence’ in Works (1869) I 70: To stay long there, I was exceeding loth, / They vs’d so much deceit with nick and froth.
1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 109: You keep a company of cheating base knaves about you to cousen your guesse [i.e. tavern customers]: the Tapster for nicking and frothing his Jugges and Cans.
1661		Poor Robin n.p.: All we know of the matter is, that she [a conscientious hostess] still continues the nick and froth trade as usual .
a.1661		‘A Lenten Letany’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 162: From the Nick and Froth of a Peny Pot-house.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Nick and Froth built the Pye at Aldgate, sharping in the Reckonings and cheating in the Measure built that (once) Noted House.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1741		Poor Robin, Chronicle [as 1661].
1853		Kendal Mercury 23 July 6/1: From the nick and froth of a penny-pot house [...] Libera nos domine!

2. by metonymy, a landlord.

1714

T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 268: Nick and Froth curst his fate for not making more haste.

nick and go (n.)

(Ulster) a ‘narrow squeak’, a ‘close shave’.

1997

nick in the notch (n.)

the vagina.

1890–1904