"tarriwag", 1784

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/23/2008 03:14 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Farmer & Henley include "tallywag" ('the penis; see PRICK') but
>neither of the others, although my impression too is that
>"tallyw(h)acker" has a long history.  Curiously, F&H also list
>"tarrywag", which (in the plural) = 'testes'.  So the tallywag with
>its two companion tarrywags?  Seems unlikely, somehow.

Someone I saw (via Google?) had both:  tarriwag = penis, tarriwags = testes.

Joel

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