English

An East Frisian maypole.

Noun

maypole ‎(plural maypoles)

1. A pole, garlanded with streamers held by people who dance around it to celebrate May Day.
2. (euphemistic) A ****, especially a large one.

1. • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3

     and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

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