Cream of the Valley, also Cold Cream, subs. phr. (common).—Gin. Cf.,
Mountain Dew = whiskey. For synonyms, see Drinks.
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, ch. i., p. 1. ‘What’s up, Jim?
... is it cream o’ the walley or fits as has overcome the lady?’
1864. Comic Almanack, p. 63. Cold Cream Internally.—Cold cream is
an excellent remedy for ‘hot coppers.’
Cream-Stick, subs. (common).—The penis. [Literally a stick supplying
cream (q.v.).]
English Synonyms. Aaron’s Rod; Adam’s Arsenal (the penis and testes);
the Old Adam; arbor vitæ; arse-opener; arse-wedge; athenæum; bayonet;
bean-tosser; beak; beef (the penis and testes); bag of tricks (idem);
belly-ruffian; Billy-my-Nag; bludgeon; Blueskin; bracmard (Urquhart);
my body’s captain (Whitman); broom-handle; bum-tickler; bush-beater;
bush-whacker; butter-knife; catso or gadso; child-getter;
chink-stopper; clothes-prop; club; cock; concern; copper-stick;
crack-hunter; cracksman; cranny-haunter; cuckoo; cunny-catcher;
‘crimson chitterling’ (Urquhart); dagger; dearest member (Burns);
dicky; dibble (Scots); dirk (Scots); Don Cypriano (Urquhart); doodle;
dropping member; drumstick; eye-opener; father-confessor; ‘cunny-burrow
ferret’ (Urquhart); fiddle-bow; o-for-shame; flute; fornicator;
garden-engine and gardener (garden = the female pudendum); gaying
instrument; generation tool (C. Johnson and Urquhart); goose’s neck;
cutty gun (Scots); gut-stick; hair- (or beard-) splitter; hair-divider;
Hanging Johnny; bald-headed hermit; Irish root; Jack-in-the-box; Jack
Robinson; jargonelle; Jezabel; jiggling-bone (Irish); jock (q.v.); Dr.
Johnson; ‘Master John Goodfellow’ (Urquhart); John-Thomas; ‘Master John
Thursday’ (Urquhart); man Thomas; jolly-member (Urquhart); Julius
Cæsar; ‘knock-Andrew’ (Urquhart); lance of love; Langolee (Irish);
leather-stretcher; life-preserver; live sausage (Urquhart); Little Davy
(Scots); lollipop; lullaby; machine; ‘man-root’ (Whitman); marrow-bone;
marrow-bone-and-cleaver; Member for Cockshire; merry-maker; middle-leg;
mouse; mole; mowdiwort (Scots); Nebuchadnezzar (cf., Greens);
nilnisistando (Urquhart); Nimrod; nudinnudo (Urquhart); ‘nine-inch
knocker’ (Urquhart); old man; peace-maker; pecker; pecnoster; pego;
pestle; pike (Shakspeare); pike-staff; pile-driver; pintle; pizzle;
ploughshare; plug-tail; pointer; ‘poperine pear’ (Shakspeare);
Polyphemus; ‘pond-snipe’ (Whitman); prick (Shakspeare and Fletcher);
‘prickle’; privates, and private property (the penis and testes);
‘privy member’ (Biblical); quim-stake; ramrod; ‘Rector of the females’
(Rochester); Roger; rolling-pin; root; rudder; rump-splitter; Saint
Peter (who ‘keeps the keys of Paradise’); ‘sausage’ (Sterne); sceptre;
shove-straight; sky-scraper; solicitor-general; spigot; ‘split-rump’
(Urquhart); spindle; sponge (cf., Ramrod); staff of life; stern-post;
sugar-stick; tarse; tent-peg; thing; ‘thumb of love’ (Whitman);
‘tickle-gizzard’ (Urquhart); tickle-toby; tool; toy; trifle (tailors’);
trouble-giblets; tug-mutton; unruly-member; vestry-man; watch-and-seals
(the penis and testes); wedge; whore-pipe (Rochester); wimble; yard;
Zadkiel (almanack) = the female pudendum.
French Synonyms. Le sansonnet (popular: literally a starling); le
gluant (thieves’ = Old Slimy. In Argot also ‘a baby’); l’asticot
(properly = a flesh-worm); le jambot (Villon).
German Synonyms. Bletzer (from Bletz = a wedge; bletzen = to beget);
Breslauer (Viennese thieves’ = magnum membrum virile; also, a
head-piece, and a large glass, or indeed any quantity of brandy);
Bruder (also an expression belonging to the Fiesellange; literally a
brother. Cf., Schwesterlein, little sister = the female pudendum);
Butzelmann (in Luther’s Liber Vagatorum [1529]; Buze = little man);
Fiesel (supposed to be from Faser a birch-rod or fibre; the Eng. feaze
is also connected with it. Thus, Mädchenfiesel, a ‘hot member’;
Pechfiesel, a shoemaker, etc. Fiesellange signifies the language of the
strong, i.e., those of the ‘fellowship’ of thieves, burglars, and
rowdies [Fr., coupeur], etc. In Vienna Fiesel = the lowest and most
dangerous type of bawdy-house bully). Dickmann (also, an egg, or
testicle); Pinke or Finke (Low German); Schmeichaz or Schmeigaz (O.H.G.
smeichen = to flatter, to laugh); Schwanz (also, a fool or boaster).
Portuguese Synonyms. Pae de todos (= father of all); porra (= a strong
stick); virgolleiro (= that which deprives of virginity); pica (=
lance; also, a measure equal in length to the handle of a long spear;
cf., Eng. yard); bacamarte (= a milk-giving gun); a montholia de Pastor
(= an oil-flask).
Creamy, adj. (general).—Excellent; first-rate. For synonyms, see a1 and
Fizzing.
Creation. To beat or lick creation, verbal phr. (American).—To
overpower; excel; surpass; to be incomparable. English variants are ‘to
beat hollow, to sticks, or to fits,’ etc. Cf., Big as all outdoors.
1848. Bartlett, Dict. of Amer. ‘Proverbs.’ When a man runs his head
against a post, he curses the post first, all creation next, and
something else last, and never thinks of cursing himself.
1862. Among the Mermaids. ‘An Old Sailor’s Yarn,’ p. 86. The notion
of finding the capting’s cask pleased me mightily cos I knowed it
would tickle the old man like all creation.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 14 Aug. I’m willin’ to take advice. Beats
all creation how I mistook, but I shan’t go agin yer words.
Creeme, verb (old).—To slip or slide anything into the hands of
another.—Grose [1785].
Creeper, subs. (general).—One who cringes and ‘curries favour’; a
‘skunk,’ or snide (q.v., for synonyms).
Creepers, subs. (common).—1. The feet.
English Synonyms. Dew-beaters; beetle-crushers; understandings;
trotters; tootsies; stumps (also the legs); everlasting shoes; hocks;
boot-trees; pasterns; ards (Old Cant: now used as an adjective, =
‘hot’); double-breasters; daisy-beaters; kickers; crabs; trampers;
hockles; hoofs; pudseys.
French Synonyms. Les trottins (popular: trottiner, to go a jog-trot;
aller chercher les pardons de Saint-Trottin, to take a walk instead of
going to church); les reposoirs (common: properly [in sing.] a resting
place or pause; also an altar set up in the streets for a procession);
les ripatons (popular); les palerons (thieves’: properly, in sing., a
shoulder-blade); les paturons (thieves’: properly pasterns); les
harpions (thieves’: also hands). Cotgrave has harpe d’un chien = a
dog’s claw or paw; also, Il mania très bien ses harpes, He stirred his
fingers very nimbly. [Cf., ‘pickers and stealers’ = fingers]; les mains
courantes (popular: literally running hands).
German Synonyms. Tretter (Cf., English ‘trotter’); Trittling, or
Trittchen (Hanoverian = shoe, boot, foot, or staircase);
Trittlingspflanzer or Trittlingsmelochner (the shoemaker).
Italian Synonyms. Calcioso; pisante; bottiero; mazzo.