Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dripping pan n.

the vagina.

1600		N. Breton Pasquil’s Madcappe in Grosart (1879) I 8/1: The hobby-horse best fittes Maide-Marrian, / While greedy dogs may lick the dripping pan.
1637		T. Nabbes Microcosmus Act V: I have coney-catcht many a poulterers wife, and she hath pluckt my feathers [...] But now short commons serve, licking my fingers and the halfe-cold drippingpan.
1651		T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III iii: Tell him Madam Kate is as sound as a kettle [...] she is skimming her milk-bowls and melting her dripping-pans as busy as a body-louse.
1657		T. Jordan Walks of Islington and Hogsdon I i: I wonder what mad folly posses’d him to lye with this dirty, greasy kitchen-wench, was his appetite so sharp set, that he must needs be lapping in the Dripping-pan?
1661		‘Peter Aretine’ Strange Newes 3: Wand. Wh—. [I] receive the Spanish Rogue into my French quarters, where he turn’d the Pig so long till one of his best members was lost in the dripping pan, yet the Jack-weights are secure and hang fast still.
1675		Head Art of Wheedling 147: Would it not be ridiculous instead of ammorous courtship to entertain a young Lady with School-boy questions, as what is Latin for a Dripping-pan.
1795		‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Pindariana’ Works (1796) IV 285: Queen of the dripping pan, O say, How canst thou hear thy Thomas bray, Nor one kind answer utter?
1821		W. Combe Doctor Syntax, Wife (1868) 267/1: Some black-ey’d Moll, or rosy Nan, / Some priestess of the dripping-pan.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[1926		Margaret Carter [song title] I Want Plenty Grease In My Frying Pan].