verb. (old).—To copulate. [An abbreviation of ENGENDER.] For synonyms, see GREENS and RIDE.

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  1602.  SHAKESPEARE, Othello, iv. 2.

        Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and GENDER in!

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  1659.  TORRIANO, Vocabolario, s.v.

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  1778.  BAILEY, English Dictionary, s.v.

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  1816.  JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v.

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  1892.  Bible, Lev. xix., 19. Thou shalt not let thy cattle GENDER with a diverse kind.

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  FEMININE GENDER, subs. phr. (schoolboys’).—The female pudendum. [As in the old (schoolboys’) rhyme: Amo, amas, I loved a lass, And she was tall and slender, Amas, amat, I laid her flat, And tickled her FEMININE GENDER. Quoted (with modifications) by MARRYAT in Jacob Faithful, 1834.]

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