d. 1554. Lyndsay, Kitteis Confessioun, l. 16. Quod scho, Will Leno
mowit me.
1597–8. Haughton, A Woman will have her Will [Dodsley, Old Plays
(1874), x. 493]. I am no meat for his mowing.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, v. 18. For when at her Daddy’s Ise
gang to Bed, Ise mow’d her without any more to do.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. To Mow. A Scotch word for the act
of copulation.
1793. Burns, (In Title) Poor Bodies do Nothing but mow. May the
deil in her arse Ram a huge prick of brass, An’ damn her to hell
wi’ a mow.
1808–25. Jamieson, Dict., s.v. Mow ... to copulate.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1850. Halliwell, Archaic & Provincial Words, s.v. Mow.... Futuo.
Mowdiwort (or Mowdiwark), subs. (venery).—The penis. For synonyms see
Creamstick and Prick.
17[?]. Old Song [quoted by Burns in Merry Muses], ‘The Modiewark.’
The Modiwark has done me ill, And under my apron has biggit a hill.
Mower, subs. (Old Cant).—A cow.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Mower.... Cant.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Mow- (or moo-) heater, subs. (old).—See quot.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Mow Heater. A drover: from their frequent
sleeping on hay mows. Cant.
1870. All the Year Round, 5 Mar. ‘Bye-gone Cant,’ s.v.
Mozzy, subs. (showmen’s).—Judy. Swatchell = Mr. Punch.