subs. (venery).—1.  The testicles. [From A.S. cod or codd = a small bag.] Also CODLINGS.

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS.  Bawbels, baubels, or bobbles; bollocks; balls; beef (the penis and testes); bird’s-eggs; bobbies; bullets; bum-balls; cannonballs; clock-weights; culls (old); dowsetts (old); gingambobs; jelly-bags (more properly in sing. = the scrotum); knackers; love-apples; marbles; nick-nacks; pebbles; seals (Cf., WATCH-AND-SEALS = the male pudenda); spunkholders; stones; thingambobs.

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.  Les antilles (thieves’: f. pl.); les virolets (obsolete: in allusion to a man’s virility); les sonnettes (common: literally bells); les frères siamois (popular: an allusion to the Siamese twins); les prunes (common); les grains (leger de deux grains = an eunuch).

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  GERMAN SYNONYM.  Dickmann (also ‘an egg,’ and ‘the penis.’ Dick = enciente; dick machen, to deflower and quicken. Dick means literally ‘thick’).

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  SPANISH SYNONYM.  Cojones.

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  2.  (old).—See quot.

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  1871.  Bookseller, 4 Nov. The CODS and Hooks were the Whigs and Tories of Dutch William’s land.

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