tallywag

== English == === Alternative forms === tarriwag, tarrywag, tarrywock === Etymology === Unknown. Possibly a compound of tally (“a corresponding half”, noun) +‎ wag (verb). === Noun === tallywag (plural tallywags) (slang, archaic, chiefly in the plural) A testicle. [from 17th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:testicles (slang, archaic) The penis. [from 19th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis (uncommon) The black sea bass, Centropristis striata. ==== Derived terms ==== tallywhacker === References === “tallywag, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. Eric Partridge (1937), “tallywag; occ. tarriwag”, in A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […], London: Macmillan, page 864. “tallywhacker”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.