subs. (old cant).—1. A portmanteau; a POGE (q.v.).—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
2. (old cant).—A goose: also ROGER (or TIB) OF THE BUTTERY.—HARMAN (1567); DEKKER (1609); B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
1622. FLETCHER, Beggar’s Bush, v. 1.
| Hig. Or Margery-praters, ROGERS, | |
| And Tibs o’ the buttery? |
3. (venery).—The penis: see PRICK. Hence as verb. = to copulate: see RIDE. [Cf. ROGER = ram, and ‘ROGER a name frequently given to a bull’ (B. E., GROSE).]
1653. URQUHART, Rabelais, I. xi. Taking you know what between their fingers and dandling it…. And some of the … women would give these names—my ROGER … smell-smock … lusty live sausage.
1720. D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vi., 201. And may Prince G——’s ROGER grow stiff again and stand.
1750. ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, 98. Dear sweet Mr. Wright … Go RODGER to-night Your Wife, for ye want her.
1794. BURNS, The Summer Morning [The Merry Muses (c. 1800), p. 49].
| To ROGER Madam Thetis. | |
| Ibid. (d. 1796), ‘We’re a’ gaun Southie, O.’ | |
| Bonie lassie, braw lassie, | |
| ‘Will ye hae a sodger?’ | |
| Then she took up her duddie sark, | |
| An’ he shot in his ROGER. |
1885. BURTON, The Thousand Nights and a Night, iii. 304. I will not ROGER thee. Ibid. (1890), Priapeia, xii. Thou shalt be pedicate, (lad) thou also (lass!) shalt be ROGERED.
4. (nautical).—A pirate flag: also JOLLY ROGER.—GROSE (1785).
5. (old).—A ROGUE (q.v.).
