subs. (conventional).—The organs of generation, male or female. Also PRIVITY (of women), PRIVITIES, and PRIVY MEMBER. Analogous terms (venery) are PRIVATE PROPERTY = (1) penis, and (2) the female pudendum; PRIVY-HOLE (-COUNCIL or -PARADISE, or PRIVY) = the female pudendum.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Capocchio. A woman’s PRIVITIE.

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  1620.  PERCY, Folio MSS., ‘Ffryar and Boye.’

        The thornes this while were rough & thicke,
& did his PRIVY MEMBERS pricke.

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  1678.  COTTON, Scarronides, or, Virgil Travestie [Works (1715), 21].

                        When on Grounsel
He firkt her Mother’s PRIVY-COUNSEL.

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  TO PRIVATE STITCH, verb. phr. (tailors’).—To conceal the thread in stitching.

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