custom house n.
the vagina.
Works (1999) 247: Did Christ e’er keep a Custom-House for Sin? | (1680) ‘On Rome’s Pardons’ in||
Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 16: Here’s [...] Eve’s custom-house where Adam made his first entry. | ||
Songs Comic and Satyrical 126: [as cit. 1768]. | ‘The Sentiment Song’ in||
‘The Chapter of Smutty Toasts’ in Icky-Wickey Songster 9: [as cit. 1768]. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
the vagina.
[ | Joe Miller’s Jests No. 3: Mr. H---rr---n, one of the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, being [...] at the Play-House in Dublin, Monoca Gall, the Orange Girl, [...] striding over his Back, he popp’d his Hands under her Petticoats: nay, Mr. Commissioner, said she, you’ll find no Goods there but what have been fairly entered]. | |
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Custom House Goods The Whores Stock in Trade because they have been duly entered. | ||
, | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Custom-house Goods. The stock in trade of a prostitute, because fairly entered. | |
[ | Banquet of Wit 23: as 1739]. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Peeping Tom (London) 2 8/2: The commissioner in revenue [...] popped his hand under her petticoats. ‘Nay, commissioner,’ said she,‘ you’ll find no goods there but what have been fairly entered’. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a laxative pill.
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn). | ||
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Sl. Dict. |