Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the vagina.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 251: Terrier, m. The female pudendum; ‘Cupid’s alley’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 185: Common examples [of sexual ‘addresses’] include Cockshire, Cock Inn, Cupid’s Alley, Hairyfordshire, Crown and Feathers, Shooter’s Hill, Mount Pleasant, Love Lane, etc.

the vagina.

[1732-1820		Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 19: The Anvil lasts longer than the Hammer — the only Consolation the Undermost has].
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

the vagina.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

the vagina.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

the penis.

c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 12 48/3: [advert] the wanton warbler — Cupid’s Battering Ram.
1879		‘Sub-Umbra, or Sport among the She-Noodles’ in Pearl 6 Dec. 2: The red head of ‘Cupid’s Battering Ram’ was now brought to the charge.
1881		J.C. Reddie Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon 21: The continued resurrections of Cupid’s battering ram, which she [...] assured me was a perfect phoenix of its kind.

the vagina.

1680		Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 7: Her upper Parts are the shop of Cupid, and those below, his Warehouse.
1700		‘The Resolution’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 119: But he that with unspotted Breast, / Bears Love as pure as Snow, / Shall be my Guest at Cupid’s Feast, / And let all others go.
[1787		Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 59: A pair of dark blue eyes [...] invite the blind coral headed boy into her cloister of teeming joys].
1787		Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 93: The pleasing Mount of Venus [...] which twining round the ruby portals of Cupid’s grotto forms a delightful bed for the root of the tree of life.
1889		C. Deveureux Venus in India I 97: Finding her waistband loosened, it had explored the sweet pastures of her silvery belly, and crossing the rough surface grass of the mount of Venus. As my fingers pressed in Cupid’s furrow, the lovely little clitoris, ever on the watch, had sprung up to salute it with a moist and eager kiss.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 67: Cloître, m. The female pudendum; ‘the cloister’. [Ibid.] 79: Corridor d’amour, m. The female pudendum; ‘Cupid’s cloister’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 182: Occasionally, the colloquialism acknowledges the functions of the part, as is seen with Cupid’s furrow.

the vagina.

1787		Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 66: Her lovely half globes of nature [...] elevate themselves in a very pleasing manner, and tell the gazer in very plain terms the state of Cupid’s cole hole, whose embers are now sufficiently warmed to admit the red-headed torch.
1793		Bacchanalian Mag. 26: Original and selected Toasts and sentiments [...] Cupid’s Coal-Hole.

(US) gonorrhoea.

1927		W. Edge Main Stem 43: Look out [...] or ye’ll be goin’ aroun’ here wit’ a dose of Cupid’s Itch.
1931		Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 58: Cupid’s Itch. – Any venereal disease.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 796: cupid’s itch – Any venereal disease.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 205: venereal disease [...] Cupid’s itch (dated, ’40s).

the female breasts.

1775		‘Miss Peggy Alexander’ in Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh n.p.: And when she’s in action, she heaves her little Cupid’s kettle-drums with great agility.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Kettle Drums, or Loves Kettle Drums, a Womans Breasts.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Kettledrums. Cupid’s kettle drums; a woman’s breasts, called by sailors chest and bedding.
1798		‘Toy’ in Hilaria 96: A pair of bubbies bolted out, / God Cupid’s kettledrums, sir.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1788].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1788].

(US) secondary syphilis.

1947		B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 32: A full set of spirochaete pallida, known to the world as syphilis and to the trade as Cupid’s measles.
1960		(con. 1940s) G. Morrill Dark Sea Running 186: I started getting pains in my groin. ‘Cupid’s measles,’ said the Steward.
1997		British Journal Sexual Medicine 24:4: (July–Aug.) ‘Lock hospitals’ were imported to India from England, where they had begun in the 18th century. [...] The inmates were female prostitutes suffering from ‘Cupid’s measles’.
2006		Allan & Burridge Forbidden Words 71: Cupid’s measles is slang for treponemal disease or syphilis.

the female genitals.

1833

‘The Charming Fair’ in Out-and-Outer in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 147: The gentle zephyrs throug the tress / Had blow her coats above her knees; / When sly young Hodge, quite full of zest, / Behind a tree spied Cupid’s nest.

a brothel.

1669

Life and Death of Damaris Page 1: [She] was most notably famous for keeping a house of, what shall I call it, for it had divers names, some called it the Seamans whirlpool, others Venus Bower, Cupids Pest-house, the Chyrurgions friend, the Hectors Office, a Vaulting-School, the amorous Chace, a Brothel, a Stew, the huck-strings Accademy, the hole in the Wall, &c.

the vagina.

1837

‘She’s Just the Girl’ in Flash Olio in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 191: I burning and raging wi’ passion / You’ve shoved I in Coopid’s pit up t[o] the eyes.

the penis.

1732-1820

Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 21: Dinner Sentiments [...] The Female Cave; the open space for Cupid’s Rudder; the fine Sheath for the bold Dagger.

the penis.

1883

Letters from Laura & Eveline 6: Arthur who I [...] guessed would be formidably armed with a Cupid’s spear with the very ominous bunch in his trousers.

the penis.

1781

Belle’s Stratagem 68: Cupid’s sword is stain’d with crystal gore.

the female breasts.

1781

Belle’s Stratagem 67: Letitia: Oh!— Doricourt: Why do you sigh? — Why do you so heave those tennis-balls of Cupid?

to have sexual intercourse.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.