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put lead in one's pencil

put lead in one's pencil

Enhance or restore sexual vigor, as in Try one of these hot peppers; that'll put lead in your pencil. This phrase, a euphemism for causing an erection, is considered far more vulgar than the contemporary synonym put hair on one's chest, alluding to a secondary male sex characteristic. [Colloquial; c. 1900]
See also: lead, pencil, put

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
JamieJAY-meeScottish, English
Walentyvah-LEN-tiPolish
ValentinVAH-len-teen (German), vah-lyen-TEEN (Russian), vah-leen-TEEN (Russian)French, Romanian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian,
Marjani-Eastern African, Swahili
Gervasius-Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Owen (1)O-ən (English)Welsh, English
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