Talk:gherkin

RFV discussion: December 2016–April 2017

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gherkin

Penis. Is this used outside of jerk the gherkin? Equinox ◑ 15:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

I've heard it use outside of it, but I just thought it was metaphorical usage Leasnam (talk) 15:17, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

If so, still presumably worth a sense, since only certain phallic-object words can mean penis (e.g. "sausage" but not "thumb"). Equinox ◑ 15:19, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Sure. I've added some cites Leasnam (talk) 15:24, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Only certain phallic-object words can mean penis? "thumb" is not terribly phallic, compared to the middle finger, and makes for more confusing slang as another body-part. I'm pretty sure just about anything even vaguely phallic can mean penis.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:42, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Some long hard things that AFAIK can't mean penis: pen, pencil (outside of "pencil dick"), plank, (tree) trunk, gearstick... Equinox ◑ 15:33, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

trunk, gearstick, plank, pencil DTLHS (talk) 15:42, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

New competition, try and find any noun in any language which has never been used to refer to genitalia or drugs. - TheDaveRoss 15:47, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

The new Wiktionary competition? We haven't played anything for a while...--Derrib9 (talk) 07:55, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

As the Arctic Monkeys once sang, "Was it a Mecca dobber or a betting pencil?" Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:44, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

• RFV passed. The last citation was from a poem that didn't exactly work to attest the meaning, so I replaced it with a better citation. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:57, 14 April 2017 (UTC)