Victorian Sexual Slang

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• Breasts - Diddeys, bubbies (a bushel bubby is a full-breasted woman), chicken-breasted (flat-chested), one’s dairy, cupid’s kettle drums
• Testicles - Whirlygigs, ballocks, bawbles, trinkets, gingambobs, thingambobs, tallywags, twiddle-diddles
• Woman’s private parts - Cock alley, Cock Lane, one’s commodity, dumb glutton, fruitful vine, old hat (because frequently felt), Miss or Lady Laycock, madge, money (commonly applied to little children. ‘Careful there miss, or you’ll show us your money’), muff, notch, cunny, quim, crinkum-crankum
• Willy - Arbor vitae, gaying instrument, lobcock (a willy that’s large and relaxed), Nebuchadnezzar, plug-tail, tackle, whore-pipe
• Shagging - to tup, to dab it up with, to give a green gown (ie. get her dress grassy), to join giblets, to grind, to knock, to occupy, prigging, wapping
• Gay - Mandrake (man), Tom (butch or boyish lesbian), Sapphist (any kind of lesbian)
• Prostitute - Pinchcock, bunter (half-whore, half-beggar), laced mutton, toffer, unfortunate woman
• Lady who’s a bit of a romp - wagtail, bobtail, bangtail, cleaver, rantipole (to ride rantipole), dirty puzzle (a nasty slut)
• Wanking - to fetch mettle (mettle being semen), to toss off. Women apparently didn’t wank - at least Queen Victoria thought so, which is why she changed the law to say a woman could never be accused of the female equivalent of onanism.
• Buttocks - blind cupid, nancy, roundmouth (but that’s just the bottom’s winking star)

For a complete list of Victorian sexual slang, click here.