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Member for Cockshire; merry-maker; middle-leg; mouse; mole; mowdiwort (Scots); Nebuchadnezzar (cf., Greens); nilnisistando (Urquhart); Nimrod; nudinnudo (Urquhart); 'nine-inch knocker' (Urquhart); old man; peace-maker; pecker; pecnoster; pego; pestle; pike (Shakspeare); pike-staff; pile-driver; pintle; pizzle; ploughshare; plug-tail; pointer; 'poperine pear' (Shakspeare); Polyphemus; 'pond-snipe' (Whitman); prick (Shakspeare and Fletcher); 'prickle'; privates, and private property (the penis and testes); 'privy member' (Biblical); quim-stake; ramrod; 'Rector of the females' (Rochester); Roger; rolling-pin; root; rudder; rump-splitter; Saint Peter (who 'keeps the keys of Paradise'); 'sausage' (Sterne); sceptre; shove-straight; sky-scraper; solicitor-general; spigot; 'split-rump' (Urquhart); spindle; sponge (cf., Ramrod); staff of life; stern-post; sugar-stick; tarse; tent-peg; thing; 'thumb of love' (Whitman); 'tickle-gizzard' (Urquhart); tickle-toby; tool; toy; trifle (tailors'); trouble-giblets; tug-mutton; unruly-member; vestry-man; watch-and-seals (the penis and testes); wedge; whore-pipe (Rochester); wimble; yard; Zadkiel (almanack) = the female pudendum.

French Synonyms. Le san-*sonnet (popular: literally a starling); le gluant (thieves' = Old Slimy. In Argot also 'a baby'); l'asticot (properly = a flesh-*worm); le jambot (Villon).

German Synonyms. Bletzer (from Bletz = a wedge; bletzen = to beget); Breslauer (Viennese thieves' = magnum membrum virile; also, a head-piece, and a large glass, or indeed any quantity of brandy); Bruder (also an expression belonging to the Fiesellange; literally a brother. Cf., Schwesterlein, little sister = the female pudendum); Butzelmann (in Luther's Liber Vaga torum [1529]; Buze = little man); Fiesel (supposed to be from Faser a birch-rod or fibre; the Eng. feaze is also connected with it. Thus, Mädchenfiesel, a 'hot member'; Pechfiesel, a shoemaker, etc. Fiesellange signifies the language of the strong, i.e., those of the 'fellowship' of thieves, burglars, and rowdies [Fr., coupeur], etc. In Vienna Fiesel = the lowest and most dangerous type of bawdy-house bully). Dickmann (also, an egg, or testicle); Pinke or Finke (Low German); Schmeichaz or Schmeigaz (O.H.G. smeichen = to flatter, to laugh); Schwanz (also, a fool or boaster).

Portuguese Synonyms. Pae de todos (= father of all); porra (= a strong stick); virgolleiro (= that which deprives of virginity); pica (= lance; also, a measure equal in length to the handle of a long spear; cf., Eng. yard); bacamarte (= a milk-giving gun); a montholia de Pastor (= an oil-flask).

Creamy, adj. (general).—Excellent; first-rate. For synonyms, see A1 and Fizzing.

Creation. To beat or lick creation, verbal phr. (American).—To overpower; excel; surpass; to be incomparable. English variants are 'to beat hollow, to sticks, or to fits,' etc. Cf., Big as all outdoors.