subs. (old).—In pl. = the testes: the BALLS (q.v.).
1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Laugh and be Fat (1724), 5. I would not lose my TARRIWAGS for the best dinner in Christendom.
1838. WILLIAM WATTS (‘Lucian Redivivus’), Paradise Lost, 82.
| And then he, with a vacant stare, | |
| Cried out, ‘By gum, my —— is bare! | |
| I wish I had a clout, or rags, | |
| Just to wrap up my TERRIWAGS.’ |
