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John Thomas (plural John Thomases)
- (slang, Cockney) The penis.
1928, D H Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, : [ Tipografia Giuntina, ], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:'John Thomas! John Thomas!' and she quickly kissed the soft penis, that was beginning to stir again.
- (slang, archaic) A flunkey; a male servant.
1869, The Home Monthly, page 383:We are disposed to think servants an ill-used class. Not only the parlor, not only querulous masters and mistresses, but the press, is against them, and finds its account in ringing the changes on flunkeys, menials, servant-girls, and John Thomases, confident in a sure topic, and safe from reprisal.
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- (flunkey): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary