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Definition of Family jewels
1. Noun. External male sex organs.
Group relationships: Male Body, Male Reproductive System
Generic synonyms: Crotch, Genital Organ, Genitalia, Genitals, Private Parts, Privates
Terms within: Scrotum, Ball, Ballock, Bollock, Egg, Nut, Orchis, Testicle, Testis, Male Reproductive Gland, Member, Penis, Phallus
Definition of Family jewels
1. Noun. (idiomatic euphemistic) Testicles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Jewels
Literary usage of Family jewels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"Calmady (3) a distinction appears to be taken between family jewels and those
... If family jewels were considered the paraphernalia of each successive wife ..."
2. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Baron Henry Bickersteth Langdale, Chaloner William Chute, John Romilly Romilly, Charles Beavan (1854)
"Calmady(c) a distinction appears to be taken between family jewels and those ...
Old family jewels, which have been handed down from father to son, ..."
3. Secret History of the Court of England from the Accession of George the by Anne Hamilton (1901)
"... and Neglect of Duty — The Hope of the Family — Jewels — An Unworthy Bishop —
Head over Ears in Debt — Crafty Tory Money-lenders — Nova Scotia Mines. ..."
4. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"... Of late years family residences, family pictures, family relics, and family
jewels have been changing hands with ..."
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