"Keep your pecker up"

[ailsagirl]

Does that mean the same thing as "Keep your chin up?"
If so, are they used interchangeably?

Just curious

:toast:

Cheers

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Yes, but entirely innocently

Oxford English Dictionary gives it quite a long and decent history:

1845 Times 15 Sept. 8/3 Mr. King‥misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.
1848 R. Morier Let. 8 Feb. in R. Wemyss Mem. & Lett. (1911) I. 65, I broke‥down completely .‥ However, my pecker is up, and I have just put forward a motion in propria persona.
1873 Slang Dict., Pecker, ‘keep your Pecker up’,‥literally, keep your beak and head well up, ‘never say die’.
1875 W. S. Gilbert Trial by Jury 4 Be firm, my moral pecker.
1901 R. C. Lehmann Anni Fugaces 56 Weighed down by debt they yet keep up their pecker.
1928 A. Merritt Seven Footprints to Satan xiii. 180, I was talkin' loud to keep my pecker up.
1995 Time Out 9 Aug. 113/4 I've had my fill of trite wartime sentimentality and chirpy ‘keep yer pecker up’ dialogue.

[ailsagirl]

2. Thanks for the clarification...

Love linguistic stuff!

[oldironside]

3. My personal favourite...

... is the bumper sticker "Honk for Jesus!". :puke:

What a way to show approval!

[ailsagirl]

4. That's really something

BTW, I like your avatar!

[oldironside]

5. The pic is really small...

... but I think yours is the greatest living Englishman. :headbang:

http://youtu.be/2t9slqL_eSw

[dipsydoodle]

6. Another Weiner post ?

:shrug: