he n.
1. the penis.
Choise of Valentines (1899) 12: I kisse, I clap, I feele, I view at will, Yett dead he lyes, not thinking good or ill. | ||
(con. 1940s) Borstal Boy 168: You want to shove ’im under the coldwater tap. | ||
Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 189: The reverse process of this [...] depersonification of the penis is its personification [...] as little man, foreman, him. | ||
Blow Your House Down 26: ‘I’m afraid he’s not quite ready,’ he said. |
2. (US gay, also he-bitch) used by lesbians in the same way as male homosexuals refer to each other as ‘she’.
In the Life 68: This here lousy, goddam stud clobbered me [...] The dirty, lousy he-bitch! | ||
Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 41: she (pron.): One of the several pronouns used by effeminate homosexuals of themselves and their friends. The reverse he is true of lesbians. | ||
Pure Cop 106: Gumps are also known as ‘he/she’s’. But actually, in their terminology, they’re queens. And their code is ‘We special girls’. |