percy n.1
1. uses based on the supposedly effeminate male proper name.
(a) (orig. US, also percy-boy) an effeminate man, a weakling; one who appears exhausted.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Girl Proposition 3–4: Among the other Things she wore that Evening was a featherweight Escort who had Percy written all over him. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Feb. 11/3: Lawn tennis with Percies I play / For ices brought round on a tray. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Mop Fair 74: A young gentleman who had Percy literally stamped upon him. | |
| Torchy 34: I has him billed for a Percy boy that had strayed into the general office from the drygoods district. | |
| New York Day by Day 30 July [synd. col.] Also Percy was there – each smart crowd has one. Buck teeth, wisps of down on the upper lip. | |
| ‘What Next?’ Dryblower’s Verses 66: With the latest craze in clothes The bustle waddled in. It showed itself upon the block, Where Percies promenade, And did its worst to try and shock The silvertail brigade. | |
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(b) a masculine woman, poss. a lesbian.
| House of Fury (1959) 51: ‘You’re a percy,’ Tony went on, hoarse with fury. |
2. the penis [initial letter of proper name].
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 78: I come in here for a snooze and she tried to move in on old percy. | |
| Percy [film title]. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: Percy 1. UK n. Penis. As in: ‘Im just off to point Percy at the porcelain’. 2. A small green 0-4-0 saddle tank steam locomotive. |
In compounds
the vagina.
| Traveller’s Tool 131: My problem is I put sheilahs on a pedestal, but let’s face it, tell me a better way to take an optic of a percy-purse. |
In phrases
to urinate; thus point percy at the pavement, to urinate on the street.
| Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 18: Can’t a bloke be caught short [...] without a pack of bastards like you pinching him for pointing percy at the pavement. | |
| ‘Cuckoo in the Nest’ Steptoe and Son [TV script] I’ll just pop outside first and point Percy at the porcelain. | |
| Dinkum Aussie Dict. 41: Pointing Percy at the porcelain: To take a leak, have a piss. To urinate. | |
| Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 355: The barman suggested that he might need to go to the toilet. ‘Nah, I’ll be apples. Pour me a few more.’ And he continued to drink, showing not the slightest desire to point Percy at the porcelain. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 160: point/poke percy at the porcelain To urinate. ANZ mid C20. | |
| London and the South East 57: Just going to point Percy at the porcelain. back in a sec. |