mag n.2
1. a mouth; cit. 1766 is double entendre for vagina (thus cf. Madge Howlet n. (1)).
‘The Butcher’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 216: Take care that her mag with raw meat is well fed, / Lest the horns of an ox should adorn your calve’s head. | ||
Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Aug. 2/5: Her voice assimulated to a hog's squeak, and her mag never ceased. | ||
Western Times 16 Mar. 6/1: I cum to kick again, / And to let loose my mag, / I — o good lawk! I’m in sitch pain—. | ||
Limehouse Nights 308: Shut yer blasted mag, for Christ’s sake! |
2. (UK Und.) constr. with the, confidence trickery, swindling.
Child of the Jago (1982) 95: Those of the High Mob were the flourishing practitioners in burglary, the mag, the mace, and the broads, with an outer fringe of such dippers — such pickpockets — as could dress well, welshers and snidesmen. |
3. the face.
Hooligan Nights 69: The froggy layin’ there [...] is ole mag in the sputtoon. |
In exclamations
(Aus.) be quiet, ‘shut up!’.
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 32/1: Howld yer mag, [...] I’m tellin’ the story. | ||
Spoilers 204: You ’old your mag. |