clack dish

English

Noun

clack dish (plural clack dishes)

(historical) A dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice.
Synonym: clapdish
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) Vagina or vulva.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 3, scene 2:
  his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish

Synonyms

(vagina or vulva): see Thesaurus:vagina or Thesaurus:vulva

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