dirty pillow

English

Etymology

Coined as "dirtypillows" by Stephen King in the novel Carrie (1974); see citation below.

Noun

dirty pillow (plural dirty pillows)

1. (slang, generally plural) A breast, especially a woman's breast.
   • 1974, Stephen King, Carrie, New York: New American Library, →ISBN, page 98:

     "I can see your dirtypillows. Everyone will. They'll be looking at your body. The Book says—"
     "Those are my breasts, Momma. Every woman has them."

   • 1999, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (film)

     Sorry, love. I got stuck in your dirty pillows.

   • 2010, Sarah Harvey, Plastic, Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, pages 1–2:

     Boobs, bazongas, bazookas, big berthas, blouse bunnies, boulders, buds, cannons, chubbies, coconuts, the devil's dumplings, dirty pillows, flesh melons, fun bags [...] Number of words I know for breasts: one hundred and thirty-eight, and counting.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty,‎ pillow.
   • 1863 August, “Way down in Dixie”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 62, page 144:

     the patient did not wake, but tossed about on the dirty pillow, and grew hotter every moment.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:breasts