willy warmer

English

A willy warmer

Alternative forms

• willie warmer, willie-warmer, willy-warmer

Noun

willy warmer (plural willy warmers)

1. (British, slang) A woollen novelty garment designed to cover the penis.

   Hypernym: (vulgar slang) cock sock

   • 1980, Brian Shakespeare, Fox: Part One, London: New English Library, page 25:

     It was beautifully knitted, a long thin stocking with a little drawstring at the end. […] ‘It’s a Willy Warmer . . . for them long winter nights.’

   • 2002 November 16, John Stoddart, “Business Before Pleasure”, in The Times, page 17:

     The kind of sex Ann Summers sells is of the nudge-nudge, wink-wink, oom-pah-pah variety – all Babylove Crotchless Briefs in pink and black lace, or the sheep willy-warmer that bleats hopefully.

   • 2008, Julie Walters, That's Another Story: The Autobiography, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 171:

     My first spot in the show involved a monologue on the trials and tribulations of being the parent of a misunderstood flasher and I stood at the microphone, knitting a long woollen willy warmer as I spoke.

Further reading

• “willie n.⁵”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present