or nether-eye, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE. Whence NETHER-EYEBROWS (WHISKERS or LASHES) = the pubic hair; NETHER-LIPS = the labia majora; NETHER-WORK = groping or copulation.
1383. CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales, The Miller’s Tale, 666 [SKEAT (1895), I., v., 111].
| Thus swyved was the carpenteres wyf, | |
| For al his keping and his Ialousye; | |
| And Absolon hath kist hir NETHER YË. |
d. 1749. ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, 126. At th’upper End she Cracks her Nuts, While at the NETHER END her Honour.
