John Thomas

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Noun

John Thomas (plural John Thomases)

  1. (slang, Cockney) The penis.
  2. (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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References

  • (flunkey): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary