wind, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

wind v.

also wine

[SE wind, to writhe, to wriggle]

(W.I.) of a woman, to move in a provocative manner, with much swishing of the hips.

1956		advert for house rent party in Hughes & Bontemps (1958) 599: Winding and Grinding like the old Dutch Mill.
1995		Sandy ‘Bad Boy’ 🎵 Them want to whine and grind and then him leave you my daughter.
2007		Dizzee Rascal ‘Flex’ 🎵 I love it when I see a pretty girl winding / can even watch a butters girl grindin’.
2017		hubpages.com ‘Roadman Slang 4 Jun. 🌐 Whining/Daggering - words used to describe intense Jamaican dance moves done by females, to genres like dancehall and jungle. This is seen at the Notting Hill Carnival every year.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 201: Chicken’s got one chick winding on him.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

wind someone’s ball of yarn (v.) (also ravel up one’s ball of yarn)

(US) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

c.1940		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 91: There I met a little miss, and to her I whispered this: / ‘Let me ravel up that little ball of yarn.’.
c.1955		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 90: I went to take a walk around the town. / I met a pretty miss and politely asked her this: ‘Will you let me wind your little ball of yarn?’.

wind someone’s clock (v.)

(US) of a woman, to excite a partner sexually.

1973

C. Gaines Stay Hungry 58: She’s got a hundred ways to wind your clock [...] You two might be real good for each other.

wind someone’s cotton (v.)

to cause someone trouble, to create difficulties for someone.

1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 247: ‘I’ll wind your cotton,’ i.e., I will give you some trouble.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 96: ‘I’ll wind your cotton,’ to give trouble.

wind the horn (v.)

to break wind.

c.1660

‘Fryar and Boye’ in Furnivall & Hales Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript of Loose and Humorous Songs (1868) 16: Her tayle shall wind the horne / So Lowdlye.

wind up the clock (v.) (also wind one’s clock up, ...watch up) [based on a mildly coarse scene in Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy (1759–67)]

vi., vtr. to have sexual intercourse.

1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 501: To keep of girls his slender stock up, / And use, when he could wind his clock up.
1793		Bacchanalian Mag. 97: Impatiently waiting the rat tat tat knock / Of the Watch-Maker, who came to wind up her clock.
1793		Bacchanalian Mag. 97: The outside work view’d he — ’twas as fair as could be — / Then wound up her watch with his gimlet-ey’d key.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 355: [as cit. 1772].
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 54: Carilloner: To copulate; ‘to wind up the clock.’.
1997		A. Wallace ‘The Listress’ Salon.com 16 May 🌐 What activity are the following euphemisms for? 1. Eat cauliflower. 2. Wind up the clock. 3. Drive home. 4. Have a Northwest Cocktail. 5. Introduce Charlie. 6. Parallel park. 7. Buzz the Brillo. 8. Make the chimney smoke. 9. Talk about Uganda. Answer: Have sex.