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 1895. Pocock, Rules of the Game, ii. 10. What price Mr. Jack Hayles, eh, boys? That proves he's a thief.

1898. Cigarette, 26 Nov., 13, 1. Ain't he gone on saucy colours, Eh? What price the green and red?

1899. Whiteing, John St., 1. ix. What price grammar? It don't seem to teach people to keep a civil tongue in their head.

1901. Free Lance, 13 Ap., 28, 2. "It is all very well," writes a traveller, "to legislate with regard to pure beer, but what price pure wine?"

Prick (or Prickle), subs. (common).—1. The penis; and (2) a butcher's skewer (see quot. 1622, with a pun on both senses of the word). Hence prick-holder (-purse, -scourer, or -skinner) = the female pudendum; prick-scouring = copulation; prick-pride = an erectio penis, a prick-stand; prick-proud = 'satyrical, lustful' (Florio: also cf. Pride); prick-hunting = grousing (q.v.); prick-chinking = copulating; to look pricks = to challenge with the eye; to knock down a prick = to abate an erection; cf. also Beggar's benison (q.v.) = 'May your prick and your purse never fail you.'

English synonyms.—Aaron's-rod; Abraham; Adam (The old); Adam's-arsenal (penis and testes); affair (Clelland); angle (Rochester); arbor-vitæ; arse-opener; arse-wedge; aspersing-tool (Urquhart); Athenæum.

Baby-maker; bag-of-tricks (penis and testes); bald-headed hermit; battering-piece (Clelland); bauble (Shakspeare); bayonet; beak; bean-tosser; beard-splitter; bed-fellow; belly-ruffian; best-leg-of-three; Billy- (or Bob) my-nag; bird; bit of hard; blade (Davies); bludgeon; Bluebeard; Blueskin; bodkin; bonfire; bow; bracmard (Urquhart); brat-getter; broom-handle; bum-tickler; bush-beater; bush-whacker; busk; butcher (butcher's-shop = female pudendum); butter-knife (butter = spendings q.v.).

Candle (Candlestick = female pudendum); Captain Standish (Merry Drollery: Ebsworth); catso; child-getter; chink-stopper; claw-buttock; clothes-prop; club; cock (Shakspeare); concern; copper-stick; coral-branch (Urquhart); crack-hunter; cracksman; cranny-haunter; creamstick; crimson-chitterling (Urquhart); cuckold-maker (Marston); cuckoo; cunny-burrow ferret (Urquhart); cunny-catcher; Cupid's-torch; custom's-officer; cutlass; cutty-gun (Scots').

Dagger; dearest member (Burns); dibble (old Scots'); dick; dicky (nursery); diddle (nursery); dingus (American); dirk (Scots'); dolly; Don Cypriano (Urquhart); Don Orsino (Urquhart); Dr. Johnson; down-leg; dropping-member; drumstick.

Engine (Clelland); enemy; eye-opener.

Father Abraham; father-confessor; father-of-all; fiddle-bow; fiddle-diddle; fiddle-stick; firebrand; flap-doodle; flapper; flesh (generic); flip-flap (Urquhart); floater; fork; fornicating member; fornicator; flute (Durfey).

Gadso; gap-stopper; garden-engine (garden = female puden