subs. (venery).—The penis: see PRICK. Whence PINTLE-BIT (or -MAID) = a mistress or KEEP (q.v.); PINTLE-BLOSSOM = a chancre; PINTLE-FEVER = a clap or pox; PINTLE-MERCHANT (or -MONGER) = a harlot; PINTLE-RANGER (or -FANCIER) = a wanton; PINTLE-CASE = the female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE.—BAILEY (1728); HALLIWELL (1844). Also PINTLE-KEEK (Scots’) = a leer of invitation.

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  13[?].  Sloane MS., 2584, 50. [A receipt] ffor bolnyng of PYNTELYS.

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  14[?].  MS. Med. Rec., XV. Century. For sore PYNTULLES Take lynschede … with sweet mylke … make a plaster, and ley to, and anoynte … till he be whole.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Cazzomarino, a PINTLE-FISH.

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  1749.  ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, 83. So to a House of Office streight A School-Boy does repair, To ease his Postern of its Weight, And fr— his P—— there.

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  1785.  C. HANBURY WILLIAMS, Odes, ‘To L—d L——n,’ 112.

        With whores be lewd, with whigs be hearty,
And both in (PINTLE), and in party,
    Confess your noble race.

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  c. 1786.  CAPTAIN MORRIS, The Plenipotentiary.

        She spread its renown thro’ all parts of the town,
As a PINTLE past all understanding.

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  d. 1796.  BURNS, The Merry Muses, ‘Nine Inch Will Please a Lady.’

        We’ll add two thumb-breads to the nine
  And that’s a sonsie PINTLE.
    Ibid., Godly Girzie.
But ay she glowr’d up to the moon,
  And ay she sigh’d most piouslie,
  ‘I trust my heart’s in Heaven aboun,
  Where ’er your sinful PINTLE be.’
    Ibid., (old), For a’ That and a’ That.
A PINTLE like a rollin’ pin:
  She nicher’d when she saw that.

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