or nock, subs. (old).—1.  The posteriors; THE BUM (q.v.). [NOCK = notch + Gr. andros = a man].—GROSE (1785); NARES (1822).

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Cul. An arse, bumme, tayle, NOCKANDRO, fundament.

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  1653.  URQUHART, Rabelais, i. 194. My foul NOCKANDROW all bemerded.

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  1654.  GAYTON, Festivious Notes on … Don Quixote, 14.

        Blest be Dulcinea, whose favour I beseeching,
Rescued poor Andrew, and his NOCK-ANDRO from breeching.

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  1662.  Rump Songs, ii. 85. The Rump Carbonado’d, 41.

        Lenthall now Lords it though the Rabble him mock,
In calling him Speaker, and Speaker to the Dock,
For an hundred pound more hee’l kiss their very NOCK,
                Which no body can deny.

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  1663.  BUTLER, Hudibras, I. i. 285.

        But when the date of NOCK was out,
Off dropt the sympathetic snout.

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  1775.  ASH, Dictionary, s.v. NOCK. … the aperture of the fundament.

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  2.  (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE.

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes. Cunno a womans NOCKE.

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  1675.  COTTON, Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The Scoffer Scofft, in Works (1725), p. 278.

        It being pretty coldish weather,
He needs must have us lie together;
And so we did, when in the night,…
Betwixt some twelve and one a clock,
He tilts his tantrum at my NOCK.

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  Verb. (venery).—See quot. 1775. Cf. KNOCK, verb. See GREENS and RIDE.

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  1568.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Cunnata, a woman NOCKED.

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  1775.  ASH, Dictionary, s.v. NOCK, to perform the act of generation on a female.

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