John Thomas
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Noun
editJohn Thomas (plural John Thomases)
- (slang, Cockney) The penis.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html)[1], Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:
- 'John Thomas! John Thomas!' and she quickly kissed the soft penis, that was beginning to stir again.
- (slang, archaic) A flunkey; a male servant.
- 1869, The Home Monthly, page 383:
- We are disposed to think servants an ill-used class. Not only the parlor, not only querulous masters and mistresses, but the press, is against them, and finds its account in ringing the changes on flunkeys, menials, servant-girls, and John Thomases, confident in a sure topic, and safe from reprisal.
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edit- (penis): See also Thesaurus:penis
References
edit- (flunkey): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary