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TADGER, n. Slang word for a penis.Sc. 1996 Scotland on Sunday 8 Sep 7:
You can catch a glimpse of the noted tadger in John Wayne Bobbit — Uncut, a soft-porn video now available in the UK, which tells how an all-American boy lost his manhood and gained the world.Edb. 1998 Gordon Legge Near Neighbours (1999) 17:
' ... Now, Farmer Jones says to Farmer Smith, "See that bull of yours, see if it so much as sniffs round my donkey, I'll toast its tadger for breakfast." ... 'Sc. 2003 Sun 23 Sep :
By all accounts, the bampot streaker at Dunfermline wouldn't be able to do much of an elephant impression at a party. I imagine his GP at yesterday's surgery might have given it the: "You burned your tadger streaking on astroturf? Pull the other one, sunshine. Take this cream and come back when the swelling returns."Sc. 2003 Daily Record 6 Dec 48:
They're supposedly in the doldrums right now, but let's congratulate the Jags on winning the first major honour of the new season smallest tadger on Channel 5 since Keith Chegwin.Sc. 2005 Daily Record 19 Mar 57:
Leaving aside Jim's story about a trip to Amsterdam with Billy Davies and Andy Goram, big Chris' revelations about Tommy Boyd's tadger and Willie's memories of a night in the back of his Bellshill grocery store with Hazel Irvine, the most memorable part of a great evening was their big-match predictions.