Green’s Dictionary of Slang

roger n.2

[generic use of human name]

1. a goose.

[UK]Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 83: a Roger or tyb of the buttery a Goose.
[UK]Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566].
[UK]Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary Roger, or Tib of the Buttry, a Goose.
[UK]Beaumont & Fletcher Beggar’s Bush V i: Margery praters, Rogers, and Tibs o’ th’ Buttery.
[UK]Dekker ‘Canters Dict.’ Eng. Villainies (8th edn).
[UK]R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Roger [...] a Goose.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Roger a Goose.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. a country simpleton.

[UK]T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) II iii: I’ll put my ranting Roger in a cage but I’ll tame him; he loves already, which is an excellent Ring in a fool’s nose.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
[Scot]A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 370: Young Roger came tapping At Dolly’s window [...] His courage he cool’d He found himself fool’d.
[UK]Spy on Mother Midnight II 39: [The preacher] told the Farmer that he ought not to find Fault with his Wife [...] since the Impediment, if natural, might be on his Side. Roger nettled at thiis Suggestion.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Hodge, an abbreviation of Roger: a general name for a country booby.
[Ire]Tipperary Free Press 23 Aug. 3/1: A weary, prosy sermon through; while Roger’s loudly heard to snore.

3. (also rogero) the penis, an erect penis.

[UK]Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: And some of the other women would give these names, my Roger, my cockatoo, my nimble-wimble, [etc.].
[UK] ‘Roger and Mary’ in Williams Dict. Sexual Lang. III 1165: Then Roger [...] at the main breach made a sally / And ply’d on his thrust like a Turk; / But Roger Alas was confounded. The breach was so deep at that place, That poor Roger quickly was drowned.
[UK]Scudamore Homer Alamode Pt 2 53: ’cause I was so slight a Dogger, Methought they took it [i.e. a dildo] for true Roger.
[UK] ‘Male and Female Husband’ in Chappell Roxburghe Ballads (1874) II 256: The good women having searcht did find each Member good: And that Rogero ‘bove the Cleft, most firm and stoutly stood.’.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Roger, [...] a Man’s Yard.
‘Ladies Complaint’ Lansdowne 852.280: Let us pray ... That he would put his Roger into the Right Hole.
[US]Byrd of Virginia Diary 8 Oct. (1958) 182: [She] could provoke me to do nothing because my roger would not stand with all she could do.
[UK] in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 201: Here’s a Health to the Queen, let’s Bumpers take in hand, / And may Prince G—’s Roger grow stiff again and stand.
[UK] ‘Gee Ho, Dobin’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 203: Ah, brave Roger, drive on Roger, ah brave Roger, hi ho.
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]J. Wilkes Essay on Woman title page: Essay on Woman; By Pego Borewell, Esq; with notes By Rogerus Cunaeus.
T. Chatterton ‘The Virgin’s Choice’ in Revenge and Additional Songs (1795) 44: Roger is very stout and strong [...] Soft Giles is brisk and small. / Who shall I chuse, who shall I shun?
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue .
[UK]Nunnery Amusements 5: And how he feels Sir Roger fiercely rise?
[Scot] ‘We’re a’ Gaun Southie, O’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 182: Bonie lassie, braw lassie, ‘Will ye hae a sodger?’ Then she took up her duddie sark, An’ he shot in his roger.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK] ‘A Wife’s Appetite’ in Cuckold’s Nest 43: The morn they were wed the maid said to her bunny, / To-night you shall make poor old Roger feel funny.
[UK] ‘Fanny’s Mill’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 13: ’Twas Roger long she wished to find, / For Roger knew well how to grind / Her mill.
[UK] ‘Origin of Copulation’ in Pearl 5 Nov. 27: Gee up Roger, / Wag up, Roger, / Roger’s a thing that all women admire!
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[US] ‘Betty Boop in “Flesh”’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 30: Did you ever lay a bimbo who would eat an apple [...] while you were pounding that old roger home.
[US]Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
[US] in P.R. Runkel Law Unto Themselves 51: She had a hard time gettin’ Roger out because he was so stiff.
[US]L. Kramer Faggots 321: Peter, piccolo, piston, poker, pole, pork, prong, pud, roger.
[Aus]N. Cummins Adventures of the Honey Badger [ebook] VITAL AUSSIE VERNACULAR Penis: 1. beef bayonet 2. a major part of his tackle allowance 3. sword 4. pyjama python 5. rod 6. middle leg 7. rodger.

4. an act of sexual intercourse.

[UK]Bacchanalian Mag. 66: I turn’d and observ’d the old Codger / [...] / I whisper’d to Nancy / To tickle his fancy, / And ask him if he’d like a ro — r.
[UK] ‘I Dreamt Last Night As I Lay On My Bed’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 36: I dreamt last night as I lay on my bed, / That I saw an old lecherous codger, / Who scarcely hear himself fart at my head, / And he said that he wanted a roger.
[UK] ‘Joe Buggins’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 37: Says Joe, you damn’d ungrateful coger, for coming her [sic] my wife to grind, / You might have let me have the first roger, and then, of course I vouldn’t mind.
[UK]‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) II 278: This healthy, well-fed woman of twenty-three who wanted a nightly roger.
[UK](con. WW2) R. Poole London E1 (2012) 237: ‘She’s on a rodger wi’ the lodger’.

5. a police officer, usu. male.

[Aus]M. Garahan Stiffs 177: I know as much about policemen as I do about bugs. You take a dago roger and hit him and he’ll run like hell. So will all the other police in the town.

6. an erection.

[Aus](con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Pub with no Beer’ in Snatches and Lays 75: Billy the blacksmith, the first time in his life / Goes home with a roger to his darling wife.

In phrases

roger the lodger (n.)

see separate entry.