hang an arse
English
Verb
- (idiomatic, archaic, slang) to hang back, to be afraid to advance.
- c. 1670, John Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II
- For though in her he settles well his tarse,
Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse.
- For though in her he settles well his tarse,
- c. 1670, John Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II
References
- Grose, Francis, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue / Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence: altered and enlarged (London; 1811)
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