Idiom
Master John Goodfellow
Meaning
The penis.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He keeps Master John Goodfellow hidden in his trousers.”
“The bawdy tavern song made several jokes about Master John Goodfellow, much to the embarrassment of the local priest.”
“In the ribald literature of the period, the author frequently employed the euphemism Master John Goodfellow to describe the protagonist's anatomy.”
Examples
simple
“He keeps Master John Goodfellow hidden in his trousers.”
contextual
“The bawdy tavern song made several jokes about Master John Goodfellow, much to the embarrassment of the local priest.”
complex
“In the ribald literature of the period, the author frequently employed the euphemism Master John Goodfellow to describe the protagonist's anatomy.”
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