subs. (old).—1. See quot.: apparently a punning nonce-word. [Sergeants wore BUFF (q.v.) livery.]
1593. SHAKESPEARE, Comedy of Errors, iv. 3. Not that Adam that kept the Paradise, but that ADAM that keeps the prison.
2. See ADAM TILER.
3. (common).—A master man; a foreman.
See ADAM’S ALE.
THE OLD ADAM, subs. phr. (venery).—The penis: see PRICK. Hence ADAM’S-ARSENAL = penis and testes; ADAM’S OWN = the female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE; TO PLAY AT ADAM AND EVE (TO DANCE ADAM’S JIG, TO ADAMISE, or TO ADAM AND EVE IT) = to copulate: see GREENS and RIDE; ADAMED = married.
c. 1709. WARD, Merry Observations upon Every Month. Jan. Much Drinking, Kissing, Card-playing, and Merriment till Twelve at Night; and great dancing of Father ADAM’S JIGG, both in London and the Country all Night after.
1781. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter. ‘What, are Moll and you ADAMED?’
