Talk:keep one's pecker up
Actually, the etymology may include pecker, meaning penis. The phrase "keep your pecker up", with both meanings of pecker, seem related to the little bird poem of Catullus. See pecker here. --Una Smith 16:24, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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SoP. UK sense of (deprecated template usage) pecker and the pun is what gives it interest. DCDuring TALK 16:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
- Observation: if keeping, move to keep one's pecker up. Equinox ◑ 22:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- How's it actually used? Always as a salutation? Or in various ways as a verb phrase? Ie, "I told him to keep his pecker up". "He kept his pecker up the whole time." DCDuring TALK 22:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- It can be used with various pronouns. A few random pickings from Books: "Mum kept her pecker up for my sake, but Aunt broke down and I felt terrible"; "keeping one's pecker up in the poorly lit, undersized, chilly rooms used by Berzelius"; "he felt sick, and went and got some rum to keep his pecker up". Equinox ◑ 22:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- I'm gonna renamed and RFV' as nobody has made a comment since 24/07/09 (or 07/24 for my American friends). Mglovesfun (talk) 09:41, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
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- Formerly listed at WT:RFD#keep your pecker up
Since the main debate over this was whether it existed with an idiomatic meaning, I moved it here. Please verify it with citations and it can be kept. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:45, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Now has three quotes spanning over a century. More available. SemperBlotto 10:11, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- Looks good to me. DCDuring TALK 11:37, 20 August 2009 (UTC)