Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. an attractive young woman; occas. of a man, see cit. 1712.

1697		Behn False Count I i: Kist by anothers Lips! no Jacinta, that night that gives him to another Woman, shall see him dead between the Charmers Armes.
1709		S. Centlivre Busy Body Act III: My Consent! what does my Charmer mean?
1712		J. Gay Trivia (1716) Bk III 43: ’Tis she who nightly strowls with saunt’ring Pace [...] With flatt’ring Sounds she sooths the cred’lous Ear, My noble Captain! Charmer! Love! my Dear!
1714		S. Centlivre Wonder! I iii: What say you, my charmer? Shall we breakfast together?
1727		J. Gay Beggar’s Opera III xi: Then farewell, my Love – Dear Charmers, adieu.
1735		‘White Thighs’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 242: A fig for them all, they can never compare, / To my charmer’s elastic white thighs.
1748		Richardson Clarissa V 166: I have had the honour of my charmer’s company for two complete hours.
1751		Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1964) 398: He complied with the dictates of love, and flew to the place where his charmer sat.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 5: Then let the dear ponderous charmer be mine.
1788		‘Pearlha Nhe Kilthee Bawne’ Irish Songster 2: The charmer whom I prize for beauty outvies, / Fair Helen or chaste Diana.
1797		S. Croxall Fair Circassian 12: Me, and my charmer now, from noontide bowers, To spend in various scenes our blissful hours.
c.1805		‘Now Westlin Winds’ in Jovial Songster 111: So dear can be, as thou to me, / My fair, my lovely charmer.
1809		Horry & Weems Life of General F. Marion (1816) 10: Well, charmer, what’s that?
1812		J. Bell Jr. (ed.) Rhymes of Northern Bards 213: I looked about, my charmer to see.
1822		D. Carey Life in Paris 98: Sir Humphrey’s charmer saw how the storm raged, and [...] made her retreat.
1830		Egan Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 304: I congratulate you on your miraculous escape, and also on that of your charmer.
1842		‘Henry The Brave’ in Nobby Songster 15: Dear charmer suffer me to ride, / Pray throw your pretty l--s aside.
1858		R.S. Surtees Ask Mamma 23: He knew not how soon his charmer and he might part, and as yet he had not even ascertained her locality.
1867		‘Johnny Cross’ Orig. Pontoon Songster [song title] She Was Such A Charmer.
1877		J. Diprose London Life 31: He asks the charmer to have a glass of ale.
1889		C. Deveureux Venus in India I 52: That glittering ruby clitoris is evidently striving to feel the manly prick of which my charmer dreams!
1892		‘The Panegyric Patter’ in ‘F. Anstey’ Mr Punch’s Model Music Hall 67: The leading lady charmer is a chit of forty-four.
1895		Sun. Times (Sydney) 6 Jan. 1/1: They Say [...] [A] lady pounced upon her husband walking with another charmer and administered a severe thrashing.
1901		J. Caminada Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life II 61: The curly-headed masher [...] heard his charmer compared to a washerwoman.
1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Dec. 28/1: He didn’t go to church any more, though he haunted the precincts of that edifice, mingling with a lot of young men who attended regularly outside for the purpose of escorting various little charmers home.
1920		S. Lewis Main Street (1921) 389: She’s some charmer!
1934		Film Fun 8 Sept. 1: Stan kissed his college chum instead of the charmer.
1941		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 16: There was a young fellow from Parma / Who was solemnly screwing his charmer. / Said the damsel, demure, / ‘You’ll excuse me, I’m sure, / But I must say you fuck like a farmer’.
1959		Galton & Simpson ‘The Picnic’ Hancock’s Half-Hour [radio script] Three charmers we’ve got here.
1976		H. Leonard Time Was (1981) Act II: You’re a charmer, you know that?

2. the penis.

1904

Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 21: He had his charmer fully exposed to view, standing stiffly and rampant. [Ibid.] 23: Carefully placing the head of his charmer between the lips of her pussy, he moved it about a little.