subs. phr. (old colloquial).—See quots. Also ADAM’S-MORSEL.
1586. BEARD, La Primandaye’s French Academic (1594), II. 94. The knot or joynte of the necke, or ADAM’S MORSEL.
1755. JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. ADAM’S APPLE, a prominent part of the throat.
1847. CRAIG, Dictionary, s.v. ADAM’S-APPLE, so called from a superstitious notion that a piece of the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam’s throat and occasioned this prominence.
1865. Daily Telegraph, 20 July. Having the noose adjusted and secured by tightening above his ADAM’S APPLE.
1872. HUXLEY, Lessons in Elementary Physiology, VII. 178. The thyroid cartilage … constitutes what is commonly called ‘ADAM’S APPLE.’
