subs. phr. (venery).—The penis: see PRICK.
1595. SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1. Oh, Romeo! that she were, oh, that she were an open arse, thou a POPERIN PEAR!
1632. ROWLEY, A Woman Never Vexed, iii. 1 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), xii. 148]. I requested him to pull me a Catherine pear, and had I not looked to him, he would have mistook and given me a POPERIN.
1822. NARES, Glossary, s.v. POPERIN … In the quarto edition of Romeo and Juliet was a passage, afterwards very properly omitted, containing a foolish and coarse quibble on the name.
