(n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(2) The boy is short-haired and melancholic, his codpiece a sinister presence among the velvets and brocades in which he is clad.
(3) It was a bed made both for lusty sex and for begetting chubby babies like the carved cherubs flying over the heads of the couple depicted on the headboard – a man with bulging codpiece and a woman with meek, downcast eyes holding the phallic symbols of a sword and a serpent.
(4) The Spear, a black, red and yellow acrylic on canvas priced at 120,000 rand (£9,000), depicts Zuma in a suit and what could be a codpiece accentuating his genitals.
(5) Enthusiasts of Wolf Hall and its sequel may wonder what the Catholic church is doing concerning itself with English civil law several hundred years after the codpieced one emphatically rejected any such interference, on the subject of marriage not least.
Merkin
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
(2) Only 28.3% of the Salantai inhabitants and 25.5% of the Merkine inhabitants knew their arterial pressure, 74.8% and 79.3% respectively knew their height and body mass.
(3) How many more will die before we can stop it?” Jandali will be performing live at Merkin Concert Hall, Kauffman Center in New York City on Saturday 26 October.
(4) During examination of the adult population of two rural communities: 1558 inhabitants of a settlement of Salantai and 1713 inhabitants of a settlement of Merkine their arterial pressure was measured and they were interviewed.
(5) 8.47pm BST This is the hairy bit, says Glenn, affixing a large shredded wheat merkin to the front of his construction.
(6) While Diaz was making her new hairy allegiances public, clothing label American Apparel filled its New York shop windows with be-merkined mannequins in sheer undies.