or bub.—A teat; the breast; in pl. = the paps: see DAIRIES. TO FLAST THE BUBBIES = to expose one’s MEAT (q.v.).

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  1686.  D’URFEY, New Poems (1690), 206.

        The Ladies here may without Scandal shew,
Face or white BUBBIES, to each ogling Beau.

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  1693.  CONGREVE, The Old Batchelor, v., 7. Did not her eyes twinkle, and her mouth water? Did not she pull up her little BUBBIES?

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  c. 1707.  Old Ballad, Woobourn Fair [FARMER, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), 1 S. iv. 179].

        And tho’ I let Loobies,
Oft finger my BUBBIES:
Who think when they Kiss me,
That they shall possess me.

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  c. 1707.  Broadside Ballad, The Harlot Unmask’d [FARMER, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), iv. 111].

          Tho’ her Hands they are red, and her BUBBIES are coarse,
Her Quim, for all that, may be never the worse.

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  1707.  WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, II. iii. 17.

        Her BUBBIES, which she forward thrust,
Boil’d o’er her Stays with very Lust.

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  1708.  W. KING, The Art of Love, iv.

        The BUBBIES then are beat again,
Women in passion feel no pain.

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  1712.  ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull, III., viii. To see a handsome, brisk, genteel, young fellow so much governed by a doating old woman! Why don’t you go and suck the BUBBY?

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  1715.  VANBRUGH, A Country House, II., v. He talked to me of you, and said you had the charmingest BUBBIES.

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  1748.  DODSLEY, Collection of Poems, III., 191. And snowy BUBBIES pull’d above the stays.

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  1754.  B. MARTIN, English Dictionary, 2 ed. BUBBYS, a woman’s breasts.

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  1887.  W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Good-Night.

        Likewise you molls that flash your BUBS
For swells to spot and stand you sam.

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