subs. (old).—1.  A common whore; see BUTTOCK-AND-FILE, and TART. ‘Like a barber’s-chair, open to all.’

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  1598.  SHAKESPEARE, All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 2. 18. Like A BARBER’S CHAIR THAT FITS ALL BUTTOCKS; the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock,… or any buttock.

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  1674.  R. HEAD, Canting Academy, 105. The Bawds and the BUTTOCKS that lived there round.

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  1688.  SHADWELL, The Squire of Alsatia, I., Wks. (1720) IV., 17. What ogling there will be between thee and the Blowings!… Every BUTTOCK shall fall down before thee.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BUTTOCK, c. a Whore.

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  Verb. (or TO BANG THE BUTTOCKS), verb phr. (venery).—To possess a woman: see GREENS and RIDE.

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  d. 1796.  BURNS, The Merry Muses (1800), 31. ‘Cuddie the Cooper,’ He BANG’D HER BUTTOCKS agen the wa’.

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