tallywag

Noun

tallywag (plural tallywags)

1. (archaic, in plural, slang) A testicle.
   • And not forget that Pious Prince / Whose Tarriwags it held long since. / What tho’ that Codpiece’s dimension, / Shows something was of large extention1715, Samuel Butler, Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse, page 17‑18
   • But any more lip like that and it's not the crack of this slingshot pebble that you'll feel but a fist curling your teeth and these clogs kicking your tallywags up into your mouth to meet them.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 10

   Synonyms:

   testicles, testes, acorns, agates, apples, apricots, bags, ballocks, balls, bangers

2. (archaic, slang) The penis.
   • Mrs. Hemstock (rather faintly): I canna abide to feel a man’s arms shiverin’ agen me. It ma’es me feel like a tallywag post hummin’.1941, D.H. Lawrence, The Merry-Go-Round, act I, scene 1

   Synonyms:

   anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, bird, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad

3. (uncommon) The black sea bass, Centropristis striata.
   • 72. CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA. (the black sea-bass, black-fish, tally-wag, hannahill, black-will, black harry)1890, David Starr Jordan, Carl Eigenmann, A Review of the Genera and Species of Serranidae Found in the Waters of America and Europe, page 391
   • These are our five favorites: Black Sea Bass ¶ Also called black perch, rock bass, chub, and tallywag2014, Bernard Guillas, Ronald Oliver, Two Chefs, One Catch: A Culinary Exploration of Seafood, page 220