tallywag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallywags
form: tarriwag
form: tarrywag
form: tarrywock
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a compound of tally (“a corresponding half”, noun) + wag (verb).
Senses: examples: text: And not forget that Pious Prince / Whose Tarriwags it held long since. / What tho’ that Codpiece’s dimension, / Shows something was of large extention
ref: 1715, Samuel Butler, Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse, page 17‑18:
text: But any more lip like that and it's not the crack of this slingshot pebble that you'll feel but a fist curling your teeth and these clogs kicking your tallywags up into your mouth to meet them.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 10:
synonyms: word: testicles
word: testes
word: acorns
word: agates
word: apples
word: apricots
word: bags
word: ballocks
word: balls
word: bangers
word: bannocks
word: baws
word: beans
word: bean bags
word: berries
word: bollocks
word: bolls
word: boys
word: bubbles
word: cherries
word: chicken nuggets
word: chuckles
word: clockweights
word: cobblers
word: cods
word: coin purse
word: cojones
word: crown jewels
word: cubes
word: cullions
word: eggs
word: family jewels
word: giggle berries
word: gonads
word: goolies
word: gooseberries
word: huevos
word: Jacobs
word: Jatz crackers
word: jawbreakers
word: klackers
word: knackers
word: lamb fries
word: loins
word: love spuds
word: marbles
word: nadgers
word: nads (UK
raw_tags: from gonads
word: US)
raw_tags: from gonads
word: nards
word: nuts
word: orchis
word: pebbles
word: plums
word: potatoes
word: pods
word: profiteroles
word: rocks
word: spuds
word: stepchildren
word: stones
word: store
word: sweetmeats
word: swingers
word: taters
word: teabags
word: tests
word: twins
word: watermelons
word: yams
word: yarbles
glosses: A testicle.
examples: text: Mrs. Hemstock (rather faintly): I canna abide to feel a man’s arms shiverin’ agen me. It ma’es me feel like a tallywag post hummin’.
ref: 1941, D.H. Lawrence, The Merry-Go-Round, act I, scene 1:
synonyms: word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: The penis.
examples: text: 72. CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA. (the black sea-bass, black-fish, tally-wag, hannahill, black-will, black harry)
ref: 1890, David Starr Jordan, Carl Eigenmann, A Review of the Genera and Species of Serranidae Found in the Waters of America and Europe, page 391:
text: These are our five favorites: Black Sea Bass ¶ Also called black perch, rock bass, chub, and tallywag
ref: 2014, Bernard Guillas, Ronald Oliver, Two Chefs, One Catch: A Culinary Exploration of Seafood, page 220:
glosses: The black sea bass, Centropristis striata.
Derived terms: tallywhacker