"tallywag" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Compare tallywhacker, which is attested later.",
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          "ref": "1715, Samuel Butler, Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse, page 17‑18:",
          "text": "And not forget that Pious Prince / Whose Tarriwags it held long since. / What tho’ that Codpiece’s dimension, / Shows something was of large extention",
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          "ref": "2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 10:",
          "text": "But any more lip like that and it's not the crack of this slingshot pebble that you'll feel but a fist curling your teeth and these clogs kicking your tallywags up into your mouth to meet them.",
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        "A testicle."
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        "(slang, now historical, chiefly in the plural) A testicle."
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          "ref": "1941, D.H. Lawrence, The Merry-Go-Round, act I, scene 1:",
          "text": "Mrs. Hemstock (rather faintly): I canna abide to feel a man’s arms shiverin’ agen me. It ma’es me feel like a tallywag post hummin’.",
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        "The penis."
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        "(archaic, slang) The penis."
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          "text": "72. CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA. (the black sea-bass, black-fish, tally-wag, hannahill, black-will, black harry)",
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          "ref": "2014, Bernard Guillas, Ronald Oliver, Two Chefs, One Catch: A Culinary Exploration of Seafood, page 220:",
          "text": "These are our five favorites: Black Sea Bass ¶ Also called black perch, rock bass, chub, and tallywag",
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        "The black sea bass, Centropristis striata."
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        "(uncommon) The black sea bass, Centropristis striata."
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