acorn n.2
1. (US) the head.
![]() | Hand-made Fables 45: He got it into the Acorn that each Tract of Ground [...] was operated as a Gift Enterprise. |
2. (US gay, also acorn-top) the glans penis.
![]() | Horn Book 136: His weapon thus pressed between the bubbies [...] is deliciously stimulated and soon a superb jet of seed spurts from the dark red swelling acorn, bespattering the neck and face of the woman [ibid.] 46: It now suffices to squeeze the balls at the proper moment to make the liquid spurt out by the hole in the acorn-top [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 104: glans penis; the acorn-like bulb forming the uppermost end of the penis [...] acorn. | |
![]() | Dict. of Obscenity etc. |
3. the prostate.
![]() | Dict. Lang. Sex & Sexuality. |
4. in pl., the testicles.
![]() | Choirboys 220: [He] shrieked as the spray hit him in the acorns [Simes:DLSS]. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US) a thimble-rigger n. (1), operating a fixed ‘game of chance’ in which an acorn is secreted under one of three upturned cups, the cups are switched around by the operator and the players bet on which one is the container.
![]() | Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 16 July n.p.: There was the ‘thimble rigger’ in all his glory [...] the brother of an ex-justice was there and one of the ‘acorn boys’ cocked his leg for him. |
1. (US) of humans and animals, a runt, a weakling.
![]() | in DARE. | |
![]() | Dict. Amer. Sl. | |
![]() | Down in the Holler 222: acorn calf: n. A runt, a poor specimen, a weakling. Applied to human beings as well as to cattle. |
2. (US gay, west) an effeminate or homosexual man.
![]() | 🌐 ‘acorn calf’ [...] a cowboy perceived as femme. | ‘‘Western frontier gay slang’ on Twitter 2 Mar.
1. (US) an uncouth rural person.
![]() | DN III:i 68: acorn-cracker, n. Uncouth countryman. | ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in|
![]() | Amer. Thes. Sl. §391.3: Rustic; Bumpkin, Acorn cracker. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
![]() | film review at www.imdb.com 🌐 The acorn-cracker Humour on the one side balance [sic] with the hard life-deal of breezy Villagers on the second side. |