member n.1
1. the penis.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Travels 197: Thei gon all naked, saf a litylle Clout, that thei coveren with here knees and hire membres [F&H]. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Why Come Ye Nat to Courte? line 209: And Asmodeus of hell Maketh his membres swell With Dalyda to mell, That wanton damosell. | |
| Soliman and Perseda G2: They lopt a collop of my tendrest member. | |
| Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Priapo, [...] Also a mans priuy member or yard. | |
| Silent Woman I i: When wee come to haue gray hair, and weake hammes, moist eyes, and shrunke members. | |
 | Bible Deut. XXIII I [Authorised Version] n.p.: He that hath his privy member cut off [F&H]. | |
| Argalus I ii: The Nymphs are all stark and mad for it, Because they think the rest of my members proportionable. | |
| Parson’s Wedding (1664) I iii: She converses with naked men, and handles all their members. | |
| Cryes of Westminster n.p.: May the pox eate up your bones, consume your rotten Members. | |
| ‘On the Goldsmiths Committee’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 236: Pox keep ’um in bed / Until they are dead, / And repent for the losse of their Members. | |
| ‘A Satyr on Charles II’ in Works (1999) 86: While she employs Hands, Fingers, Mouth, and Thighs, / Ere she can raise the Member she enjoys. | |
| Wits Paraphras’d 24: But I shall strive to blow the Embers, / And study to rub up your Members. | |
| Proceedings against Capt. Edward Rigby for intending to commit the Abominable Sin of Sodomy, on the Body of one William Minton 7 Dec. 1: Rigby [...] took him by the hand, and squeez’d it; put his Privy Member Erected into Minton’s Hand; kist him, and put his Tongue into Minton’s Mouth. | |
| An Essay upon Whoring iv: The Gods [...] have given us one disobedient and unruly Member, which, [...] grows wild and furious, till [...] he has plentifully besprinkled and bedewed the Bottom of the Womb. | |
| Dialogue between a Married Lady and a Maid II: That which embraces the Man’s Member, when it is in, is called the Sheath. | |
| Friar and Boy Pt I 15: A woeful pickle he was in, With dancing thro’ and thro’, His cloaths he tore, and then his Skin, His privy members too. | |
| Belle’s Stratagem 13: Mrs Racket: Here’s to every upright member that enters the House of Commons! | |
| Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 127: Each portal lip, which pouting out with uncontroulable sensibility, encloses the member of all its joys. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Answer to a Poetical Epistle in Works (1842) 60/2: You should remember To cut if aff, an’ what for no Your dearest member. | |
| ‘The Rakish Gentleman’ Knowing Chaunter 44: I’m called the randy gentleman, [...] I’m a standing member of the house, / And the ladies all so free, Declare they like no member, sires, / Upon the w-hole like me. | |
| ‘O Dear What Can The Matter Be’ Nobby Songster 8: He show’d me a thing he call’d a stiff member. | |
![[Oth]](/static/img/flags/oth.png "(Other)") | Blind Lust 30: What could this unknown member be, the rosy head and length and thickness of which seemed so monstrous to me. | |
| Cythera’s Hymnal 29: Chaste in September keep your member. | |
| Sins of the Cities of the Plain 37: He began to frig my stiff member. | |
| Priapeia Ep. xxv 26: Either lop off my seminal member, which the neighbouring women, ever itching with desire, exhaust the whole night through [...] or I shall be ruptured. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Feb. 3/3: This craze for reduction of members is only an old Jewish custom, dating from the time of Moses. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 247: A nudist by name Roger Peet, / Loved to dance in the snow and the sleet, / But one chilly December / He froze every member. | |
| in Limerick (1953) 92: A whimsical Arab from Aden, / His masculine member well laden. | |
| Candy (1970) 93: She pointed an accusing finger at Uncle Jack’s member. | |
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| Faggots 99: [He] stood now in a cubicle in the empty boys’ room, wiping his own wet member off with toilet paper. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Sudden Times 36: He told me once that he had such a huge member that when he got an erection the blood would drain from his face. | |
| ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 298: What a memorable member! | |
| Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 173: Donald had trouble rolling the johnny onto his dangling member. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Jamaica Obs. 19 Aug. 🌐 Laughing at the size of his member will hurt him. |
2. usu. in pl., a testicle.
| (trans) Golden Asse 74: I thought all the hinder part of my bodie and my stones did ake for woo, but I sought about to kil my selfe by some maner of meanes, to thende if I should die, I would die with vnperished members. |
In compounds
a chamberpot.
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Member-mug a Chamber-pot. | |
| Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 207: [...] Tip me the jockum-gage, i.e., hand me the member-mug. | |
| New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
| Progress of a Rake 29: She took the Member-mug, and slop / Comes all on Richard, Juice and Sop. | |
| Rake’s Progress 29: She took the member-mug and slop / Comes all on Richard, juice and sop. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Dying Groans of Sir John Barleycorn 4: In company with good wife’s member-mugs, where I must stand in the stink until starved as dead as a doornail. | |
| Tarantula 75: Any poor, crazy, fool, now-a-days, any half-starved journeyman baker, brewer, shoe, blanket, or member-mug maker. | |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Real Life in Ireland 60: The Harbour_ of Howth was as open as the Bay of Dublin, and as empty as a member mug when it is half full of slops. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) 26 Jan. 7/3: Dinah had thrown the contents of a ‘Member Mug’ over her, and scratched her and tore a few bunches of hair from her head. | |
| ‘I’d Be a Member Mug’ in Flash Olio in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 203: I’d be a member-mug, up in a chamber, / [...] / Spying so clever, where no eye may clamber, / And kissing all bums, though not over sweet. |
In phrases
the flaccid penis, esp. when afflicted with (temporary) impotence or with venereal disease.
| Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: dropping member A man’s yard with a gonorrhoea. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 102: Égout, m. 1. The penis; ‘the dropping member’. |
see separate entry.
the penis.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
the penis.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
a cuckold.
| DSUE (1984) 470/2: C.18–early 19. |
1. the penis.
| London Jilt pt 1 79: I fell into Labour [...] with such dreadful Pains [...] which made me curse the Hourse and Day that I suffer’d that unruly Member to rummage my belly . | |
| Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 143: We have an unruly Member, and that stubborn Piece of Flesh hath no Forecast at all. | |
| Crim.-Con. Gaz. 17 Aug. 273/2: [H]e was too much under the dominion of that unruly member, which, more or less influences us all. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 17: Ardillon, m. The penis; ‘the unruly member’. |
2. the tongue.
| Oddities of London Life II 294: Mrs. Merriman [...] afforded a practical exemplification of the fact that ladies from the northern part of the kingdom are, in the use of the ‘unruly member,’ not at all behind the ladies of the south. | |
| Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 1 Sept. n.p.: A very unruly member, which is continually wagging about other business than her own. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 20 May 2/1: Lilian Cleves’ Foote seems her most unruly member—worse even than her tongue. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
a bailiff or bailiff’s assistant.
| Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Catch-Club. a Member of the Catch Club, a Bum Bayliff. | |
| , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn). |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Life and Adventures. |