well-hung
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of game) hung for a sufficient length of time
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slang (of a man) having large genitals
Etymology
Origin of well-hung
First recorded in 1630–40; well 1 ( def. ) + hung ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham call for “well-hung sinewy beef – chuck, shoulder or shin perhaps” in The Prawn Cocktail Years.
From The Guardian
What wonder if I blessed the firm of Segovia Quadra and Company as I sank back upon my well-hung mattress.
From Project Gutenberg
Where the wheel is strong, well-hung, and fitted with a removable head, a contrivance as shown at Fig.
From Project Gutenberg
She nestled in a soft corner of a well-appointed Victoria, with a great rug of native bearskins about her knees, showing her delicate fresh face, like a well-hung picture, to the crowd of passers-by on the pavement, and yet sitting just enough above them to see into the shop-windows over their heads; and she felt—though she did not formulate the sentiment—perfectly happy and satisfied.
From Project Gutenberg
Such people seemed so completely made up, so unconscious of effort, so surrounded with things to rest upon; the men with their clean complexions, their well-hung chins, their cold pleasant eyes, their shoulders set back, their absence of gesture; the p. 197women, several very handsome, half-strangled in strings of pearls, with smooth plain tresses, seeming to look at nothing in particular, supporting silence as if it were as becoming as candle-light, yet talking a little sometimes in fresh rich voices.
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