"tarriwag", 1784

[Mark Mandel]

"Tallywhacker" is in at least one of the stories in _Pissing in the Snow_.

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On Jan 23, 2008 5:43 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> 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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