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nether eye
Definition
Or: nether end , obsolete literary term used by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) and others for the vagina. Nether eyebrow / nether lashes / nether whiskers , now obsolete, referred to the pubic hair. G.A. Stevens called it: ' the eye that weeps most when best pleased '. See vagina for synonyms.QUOTE: C16 th Italian satirist Pietro Aretino (1492-1556): ' The whore laughs with one eye / and weeps with the other.'
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