PENIS

baloney noun, US, 1928
• Man, wouldn’t I love to play hide the
baloney with that. —Charles Whited,
Chiodo 1973

beef noun, US, 2001
• “The boy is masturbating” [...] Beef Strokin’
off[.] —Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty
Little Secrets 2001

bone noun, US, 1916
the penis, especially when erect
• “Why, if you mean do I think I could get a
bone up over that old buzzard, no, I don’t
believe I could...” —Ken Kesey, One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1962

dingus noun, US, 1888
• Half-and-half still costs you more than
straight, so if you need the girl’s mouth on
your dingus to get you up it will set you
back a total of thirty dollars[.] —Gerald
Paine, A Bachelor’s Guide to the Brothels of
Nevada 1978

swanz noun, US, 1985
• They wore wigs and tied their cocks up with
pantyhose back toward their ass, so if the
guy reached down there he couldn’t feel the
swanz hanging there to give the guy away.
—Mark Baker, Cops 1985

tool noun, UK, 1553
Conventional English at first – found in
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII – and then
rediscovered in the C20 as handy slang.
• Men wake up every morning and look at
their tools standing at attention. —Anka
Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club 1994

wang; whang noun, US, 1935
• Filipinos come quick; colored men are built
abnormally large (“Their wangs look like a
baby’s arm with an apple in its fist”); ladies
with short hair are Lesbians; if you want to
keep your man, rub alum on your pussy.
— Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and
Influence People 1965