jimjam

jimjam (third-person singular simple present jimjams, present participle jimjamming, simple past and past participle jimjammed)

jimjams (present singular third-person)
jimjamming (participle present)
jimjammed (participle past)
jimjammed (past)

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It didn't work until she spiked his orange juice with a triple dose of street acid: she sent three different girls up that day, and he fucked, sucked, and orifically jimjammed his little brains loose.

2007, Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta, Lester Bangs, Lit Riffs, →ISBN, page 37:


drop a chalupa

en-verb

drop a chalupa (third-person singular simple present drops a chalupa, present participle dropping a chalupa, simple past and past participle dropped a chalupa)

drops a chalupa (present singular third-person)
dropping a chalupa (participle present)
dropped a chalupa (participle past)
dropped a chalupa (past)

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After a supposed resemblance of feces to chalupas, after the model of drop a bomb.

(euphemistic, slang) To release feces into a toilet; to defecate.


well-upholstered

en-adj

well-upholstered (comparative more well-upholstered, superlative most well-upholstered)

more well-upholstered (comparative)
most well-upholstered (superlative)


tell someone where to shove it

en-verb

tell someone where to shove it (third-person singular simple present tells someone where to shove it, present participle telling someone where to shove it, simple past and past participle told someone where to shove it)

tells someone where to shove it (present singular third-person)
telling someone where to shove it (participle present)
told someone where to shove it (participle past)
told someone where to shove it (past)
tell someone where to stick it (alternative)

En-au-tell someone where to shove it.ogg

Euphemistic allusion to the expression shove it up your ass.

They're either telling you where to shove it, if you're winning, or telling you where they'd like to shove it given half the chance.

2012, Lou Wakefield, Hot to Trot, →ISBN:

But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms.

2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 4:

(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic, vulgar) To express extreme anger, disgust, or hatred toward someone.


invasive carp

en-noun

invasive carp (plural invasive carp or invasive carps)

invasive carp (plural)
invasive carps (plural)

Minnesota’s governor recently signed a new bill into law that renames the “Asian carp” because the Asian community might find it offensive. / CBS reported that the bill, passed by the Senate in April and signed by the governor in late May, came about “in response to concern by some people that the current term casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light.” / The new name: “Invasive carp,” Mediaite reported.

2014 June 23, Cheryl K. Chumley, “Minnesota renames the ‘Asian carp’ to avoid hurting Asians’ feelings”, in The Washington Times:


have work done

en-verb

have work done (third-person singular simple present has work done, present participle having work done, simple past and past participle had work done)

has work done (present singular third-person)
having work done (participle present)
had work done (participle past)
had work done (past)

(euphemistic) To have plastic surgery performed on oneself, especially, of women, breast reconstruction.


pee like a racehorse

pee like a racehorse (third-person singular simple present pees like a racehorse, present participle peeing like a racehorse, simple past and past participle peed like a racehorse)

pees like a racehorse (present singular third-person)
peeing like a racehorse (participle present)
peed like a racehorse (participle past)
peed like a racehorse (past)

piss like a racehorse
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(euphemistic) Alternative form of piss like a racehorse.


hot dang

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pudenda muliebria

(anatomy, euphemistic) Vagina; female genitals.


drop anchor

drop anchor (third-person singular simple present drops anchor, present participle dropping anchor, simple past and past participle dropped anchor)

drops anchor (present singular third-person)
dropping anchor (participle present)
dropped anchor (participle past)
dropped anchor (past)

Junkyard Dog always stopped for lengthy bathroom breaks by announcing his intentions in advance, using a different euphemism every time, saying, to name a few, "I have to: drop anchor... do some paperwork... lay some foundation... pinch a loaf... lighten my load...."

2005, John Illig, Pacific Dream, →ISBN, page 204:

And if you think things are bad after opening the piss box, imagine the smell after I drop anchor.

2011, Andy Weir, chapter 9, in The Martian, →ISBN, page 95:

POSH is the perfect alternative to . . . stopping in a filthy, germ-infested public restroom to drop anchor. . . . Instead, the POSH Stow and Go offers people a private, clean bathroom experience.

2014 February 24, Ashley Burns, “A Company Will Soon Offer A VIP Public Restroom In New York City For $8 A Plop”, in UPROXX Web Culture, retrieved 2015-07-26:


move one's bowels

move one's bowels (third-person singular simple present moves one's bowels, present participle moving one's bowels, simple past and past participle moved one's bowels)

moves one's bowels (present singular third-person)
moving one's bowels (participle present)
moved one's bowels (participle past)
moved one's bowels (past)

Too great emphasis on privacy in connection with the eliminative functions may, in some instances, result in a child's inability to urinate or move his bowels in an unfamiliar setting.

1958, Marion E. Faegre et al., Child Care and Training, 8th ed., Minnesota Press Archival Editions, →ISBN, page 99:

Three days before the fight he was eating fruit. . . . "Keeps my system regular," he said. ". . . Keeps you from getting old, moving your bowels regular."

1980 October 5, Tony Kornheiser, “Ali Not Oblivious To the Obvious”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-07-26:

In the middle of the night the woman moved her bowels. The sharp stink of it pervaded the room.

2013 November 27, Joyce Wadler, “Bad Thanksgiving”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-26:

(euphemistic) To excrete feces from one's bowels: to defecate.


go to the restroom

go to the restroom (third-person singular simple present goes to the restroom, present participle going to the restroom, simple past went to the restroom, past participle gone to the restroom)

goes to the restroom (present singular third-person)
going to the restroom (participle present)
went to the restroom (past)
gone to the restroom (participle past)

(euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a restroom.


go to the washroom

go to the washroom (third-person singular simple present goes to the washroom, present participle going to the washroom, simple past went to the washroom, past participle gone to the washroom)

goes to the washroom (present singular third-person)
going to the washroom (participle present)
went to the washroom (past)
gone to the washroom (participle past)

(Canada, euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a washroom.


use the bathroom

use the bathroom (third-person singular simple present uses the bathroom, present participle using the bathroom, simple past and past participle used the bathroom)

uses the bathroom (present singular third-person)
using the bathroom (participle present)
used the bathroom (participle past)
used the bathroom (past)

We went camping and had to use the bathroom in the woods.

He wanted to go in and use the bathroom but he was ashamed of the way he looked. He had been in hiding, really, for nearly a month.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 5:

(euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom.


use the restroom

use the restroom (third-person singular simple present uses the restroom, present participle using the restroom, simple past and past participle used the restroom)

uses the restroom (present singular third-person)
using the restroom (participle present)
used the restroom (participle past)
used the restroom (past)


use the washroom

use the washroom (third-person singular simple present uses the washroom, present participle using the washroom, simple past and past participle used the washroom)

uses the washroom (present singular third-person)
using the washroom (participle present)
used the washroom (participle past)
used the washroom (past)


use the toilet

use the toilet (third-person singular simple present uses the toilet, present participle using the toilet, simple past and past participle used the toilet)

uses the toilet (present singular third-person)
using the toilet (participle present)
used the toilet (participle past)
used the toilet (past)

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to use facilities to urinate or defecate

She'll be right back. She had to use the toilet.

(euphemistic) To urinate, defecate, or both in a toilet.

We had to use the toilet in the woods when we went camping, so we carried bog rolls and small shovels everywhere we went.

(euphemistic, uncommon) To urinate, defecate, or both in other places.


over-unity

From over- + unity (“the number "1"”), referring to the fact that an over-unity device should produce more kinetic energy than whatever potential it receives as input. Coined to avoid patent rules that prevent impossible technologies such as perpetual motion machines being patented.

Look for the "over-unity" ratio when calculating energy output versus input as a proof of free energy.

1994, David Hatcher Childress, The Free-energy Device Handbook: A Compilation of Patents & Reports, Adventures Unlimited Press, →ISBN, page 90:

The system behaves as an over-unity device producing energy from atomic hydrogen by a repeated dissociation and recombination of hydrogen atoms. MAHG tube contains a vacuum tube filled with hydrogen at 0.1 atm and cooled by water.

2007, Florentin Smarandache, V. Christianto, Hadron models and related New Energy issues, Infinite Study, →ISBN, page 96:

"The Potapov device," the experimenters reported ruefully, "did not show any evidence of over-unity performance in our tests. We can find no explanation for the failure of this Potapov device to perform as reported (300% over-unity)."

2008, Mark P. Silverman, A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 25:

(euphemistic) Free-energy; supposedly capable of perpetual motion


dangly bits

Mummy is playing with the boy's dangly bits, polishing them with soapy water, and rubbing them up and down.

1993, Sarah Miles, A right royal bastard (Page 32)

(informal, euphemistic, childish) Male genitalia, usually of a baby, child, or of a smaller than usual size.


sell oneself

sell oneself (third-person singular simple present sells oneself, present participle selling oneself, simple past and past participle sold oneself)

sells oneself (present singular third-person)
selling oneself (participle present)
sold oneself (participle past)
sold oneself (past)

She'd never been forced to sell herself, she'd always had a secure home and job where she was valued, with no real responsibility.

2011 February 3, Lesley Pearse, Belle, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

(reflexive, euphemistic) To work as a prostitute.


parentally challenged

en-adj

parentally challenged (comparative more parentally challenged, superlative most parentally challenged)

more parentally challenged (comparative)
most parentally challenged (superlative)

An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Lacking one or both parents, or having parents who are inadequately supportive or caring.


dadburn

Can you believe the nerve of that dadburn whippersnapper at the press dinner, saying your memoir would be called ‘How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People?’

2009 May 20, Maureen Dowd, “Cheney Grabs a Third Term”, in New York Times:

(Santa) This dadburn G.P.S. is zigzagging me all over the planet!!! I never should have fired Rudolph!!

2010 December 24, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):


woman of ill repute

en-noun

woman of ill repute (plural women of ill repute)


monthly friend

Experiencing the visit of my monthly friend at work, I trudged out into the kiln today, across the car park to the little shop in search of some tampons.

2011, Becky Wicks, Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex and Secrecy, Skyhorse Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 26:

"Office sex; I've never done it, but Kat tells me it's amazing. We'll have to try it once my monthly friend leaves."

2014, Kelly Collins, Brownie Points, IndieWrites, Inc., →ISBN:

“That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get pregnant!”
“I'm not! If it happens, I'll be glad. If not...”
“You're disappointed every time your monthly friend comes to visit. Will anyone else be glad if you got pregnant?”

2014, Holly Kerr, Coming Home, Etopia Press, →ISBN:

(euphemistic slang) The menstrual period.


monthly visitor

monthly visitor (plural monthly visitors)

'The first thing was,' she lowered her voice, 'my, you know – monthly visitor – didn't appear. I didn't think much about it because I've never kept track of that very well. […]

2005, Annie Murray, Miss Purdy's Class, Pan Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on.

2006, Tawanna Johnson, US Girls, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 178:

Once my “monthly visitor” arrived, the sports I'd always played were out of the question. My symptoms were so severe and I couldn't risk being on a team that depended on me.

2014, Jennifer Esposito, Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease – What Doctors Don't Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 27:


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daggum

Those daggum thieves stole my car!


daggum

Daggum! My car's been stolen!

(US, euphemistic, dialectal) goddamn; an expression of frustration


new normal

The achievement of learning outcomes in online learning in the New Normal Era was not significant because there were still challenges faced by educators.

2021, Jasiah et al., “Application of Learning Using Online Media During the New Normal”, in Journal of Physics Conference Series:

What are the challenges and expectations from leadership in the new normal?

2021 October 30, K. S Ahluwalia, LORD INDARJIT SINGH CBE, Dr Rajan Samuel, Harpreet Ahluwalia, Rev Thomas George, Gurpreet Singh Kapoor, Vighnesh Jha, Gunjandeep Singh, Prasanna Kkumar, CK VISWANATH, BHAVESH JHA, Leadership in the New Normal, TDW Productions & Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:

At its base level, life is about getting from point A to point B, a simplicity we took for granted until the New Normal stripped it from us.

2021 November 9, Steve Giblin, Jon Land, Walking in Mud: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Rules for Surviving the New Normal, Post Hill Press, →ISBN:

"This is such a needed and appreciated space at this time. It would be great if something similar could remain when this new normal is over."

2022 May 5, Andrew E. P. Mitchell, Chris Keyworth, Eduardo Salas, Federica Galli, Elena Vegni, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): The Mental Health, Resilience, and Communication Resources for the Short- and Long-term Challenges Faced by Healthcare Workers, Frontiers Media SA, →ISBN, page 110:

To fill the gap, this chapter interrogates the palpable shifts accelerated in the new normal affecting travel and travel behaviors.

2024, Jasiah et al., “How Has Travel Behavior Changed After the New Normal”, in Tourist Behaviour and the New Normal, Volume 1:

(euphemistic) The COVID-19 pandemic and associated social changes.


Netflix and chill

From the idea of euphemistically suggesting watching the online streaming service Netflix, as an excuse to be together in private. The idiomatic meaning developed around 2014.

Sometimes people aren't available for a rousing night of "Netflix and chill." - Can't change someone or fix them. People are who they are, especially as they get older.

2015, Greg Figueroa, The Unwritten Rules of Dating, page 7:

“Just Netflix and chill, you know?” I snort. “You know what that means, right?”

2015, Lili St Germain, Zero Hour: A Gypsy Brothers Epilogue, page 34:

2016 February 23, Gregory Weidmann, Geoff Tock, Episode 16: Sands, Agent of Morra, Limitless, 1 minute, 30 seconds,
Rachel Finch: But in this age of "Netflix and chill", it is no time to be looking for someone decent.

Andy Grammer saved himself for marriage, but now he’s all about the Netflix and chill.

2017 February 3, Nicole Sands, “Andy Grammer Abstained from Sex Until Marriage—But Now He Loves to 'Netflix and Chill'”, in PEOPLE:

(slang, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse, especially casual sex.


Netflix and chill

en-verb

Netflix and chill (third-person singular simple present Netflix and chills or Netflixes and chills, present participle Netflix and chilling or Netflixing and chilling, simple past and past participle Netflix and chilled or Netflixed and chilled)

Netflix and chills (present singular third-person)
Netflixes and chills (present singular third-person)
Netflix and chilling (participle present)
Netflixing and chilling (participle present)
Netflix and chilled (participle past)
Netflix and chilled (past)
Netflixed and chilled (participle past)
Netflixed and chilled (past)

If you haven't been living under a rock, you're well aware of "Netflix and Chill," which is the new hang out method. Contrary to prior belief, if invited to Netflix and chill, don't expect to spend a couple hours watching Netflix. It's actually the new version of "let's hook up."

2015 August 25, Ryan Santistevan, “10 movies to make your next "Netflix and Chill" session the best one yet”, in The State Press (Arizona State University):

I’ve canoodled on rooftops of shockingly expensive Capitol Hill apartments, Netflix-and-chilled in South Lake Union units with sweeping waterfront views, and languidly sipped merlot while my Amazonian inamorato responds to a high-priority event.

2016 March 11, McKenzie Templeton, “Navigating new Seattle, one Tinder date at a time”, in The Seattle Times:

“Hi Mum. Did u have a good weekend?”
“Your dad and I just netflixed and chilled.”
“Right. U kno that means having sex?”
“Yes ;-)”

2016, Your Mum, Text Fails From Mum, Bonnier Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

Nowadays, Grammer and his wife spend their days “Netflix and chilling”—with an emphasis on the “chilling.”

2017 August 12, Ross McG (Ross v Ross), "The 10 best films on Netflix UK right now if you want to Netflix and chill", Metro (UK).
You can watch the films in the list below before Netflix and chilling, or after, or during – sometimes it’s better to imagine your favourite movie star in your bed rather than facing the cold, hard reality – or even if you’re just thinking about Netflix/chilling.

(euphemistic) To engage in sexual activity, possibly while or after watching a movie or a TV series together.


officer-involved

There has been an increase in dissatisfaction with the police from African-American communities due to many recently publicized officer-involved use of force incidents on unarmed African-Americans in the United States.

2019, John Pilz, Finding Shared Understanding between African Americans and the Police through Simulated Experiences, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 115:

(chiefly of a shooting, euphemistic) Committed by a police officer.


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be with

be with (third-person singular simple present is with, present participle being with, simple past was with or were with, past participle been with)

is with (present singular third-person)
being with (participle present)
was with (past)
were with (past)
been with (participle past)

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We dated for almost a year, but I've never been with him.

(euphemistic, transitive) To have sex with.


age out

age out (third-person singular simple present ages out, present participle aging out or ageing out, simple past and past participle aged out)

ages out (present singular third-person)
aging out (participle present)
ageing out (participle present)
aged out (participle past)
aged out (past)

The phrasal verb preposition out is analogous to run out. Usage was likely spread by the Boy Scouts of America, where it is largely used in the first sense to mean turning eighteen and becoming ineligible for the youth program.

The party's chances in the coming election looked grim as a large portion of their voters were going to age out.

(euphemistic, politics) To die or retire.


twig and berries

en-noun

twig and berries (plural twigs and berries)

He whirls, pointing Mjolnir at my nose. Also near eye level, his twig and berries taunt my emaciated masculinity.

Meat, the fat English bulldog who was their mascot and self-proclaimed garbage disposal, had been sprawled on his back at the top of the steps, napping with his twig and berries out to catch the passing breeze.

2021, Julie Ann Walker, Deeper Than The Ocean:

(slang, euphemistic) The penis and testicles.


polish one's rocket

en-verb

polish one's rocket (third-person singular simple present polishes one's rocket, present participle polishing one's rocket, simple past and past participle polished one's rocket)

polishes one's rocket (present singular third-person)
polishing one's rocket (participle present)
polished one's rocket (participle past)
polished one's rocket (past)

“Scuttlebutt was Crackhead was a pyromaniac. Polished his rocket while he watched. But we could never pin a thing on him.”

2009, Joseph Collum, Brady's Run, page 47:

When Matt finally figured out masturbation, he let us know and then he couldn't stop referring to it and probably polished his rocket at every chance he got. He never seemed to get real interested in girls.

2007, Philip A. Fortnam, Walking Greenbush, page 82:

(slang, euphemistic) To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.


act of darkness

en-noun

act of darkness (plural acts of darkness)

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A Seruingman, proud in heart and mind, that curld my haire, wore gloues in my cap, ſerued the luſt of my miſtris heart, and did the act of darkenes with her, […]

c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:


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expletive deleted (plural expletives deleted)

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Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.

Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted.

2013, J. David Markham, Mike Resnick, History Revisited: The Great Battles, Eminent Historians Take on the Great Works of Alternative History, . BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 41:

(euphemistic, humorous) An all-purpose profanity.


expletive deleted

You are paid a lot of money; kindly do some expletive-deleted work.

2003, Toby Miller, “What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor”, in Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, editors, Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 90:


expletive deleted

I’d like to expletive deleted you.
Oh, expletive, that’s what I’d like to do.

1993, Steve Allen, Make ’em laugh, Prometheus Books, page 293:

(rare, euphemistic, humorous) To have sex with.


fill one's pants

en-verb

fill one's pants (third-person singular simple present fills one's pants, present participle filling one's pants, simple past and past participle filled one's pants)

fills one's pants (present singular third-person)
filling one's pants (participle present)
filled one's pants (participle past)
filled one's pants (past)

When these two rookies eventually came under fire he wondered which one would fill his pants first.

2010, Robert Richardson, Java Bond, →ISBN, page 34:

Instead of filling his pants occasionally, such a child will soil them, just a little bit, almost constantly.

2011, Penelope Leach, Your Growing Child, →ISBN, page 650:

For the second time since a toddler, Theodore again came close to filling his pants.

2013, Bob Samedi, Tinnitus, →ISBN, page 44:

(slang, euphemistic) To defecate, urinate, or ejaculate in one's pants, especially as a result of fear or amazement.


not the sharpest tool in the box

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(humorous, euphemistic) Lacking in intelligence; dimwitted.


other end

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unhire

unhire (third-person singular simple present unhires, present participle unhiring, simple past and past participle unhired)

unhires (present singular third-person)
unhiring (participle present)
unhired (participle past)
unhired (past)

(transitive, euphemistic) To fire; to terminate the employment of (somebody previously hired).


funker

That Funker should be in prison!

(euphemistic, slang) Bowdlerization of fucker.


bucket of sunshine

en-noun

bucket of sunshine (plural buckets of sunshine)

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(military slang, euphemistic) A nuclear weapon.


i-word

(euphemistic) The word illegal, illegal alien, or illegal immigrant.


tear someone a new one

en-verb

tear someone a new one (third-person singular simple present tears someone a new one, present participle tearing someone a new one, simple past tore someone a new one, past participle torn someone a new one)

tears someone a new one (present singular third-person)
tearing someone a new one (participle present)
tore someone a new one (past)
torn someone a new one (participle past)

Euphemism, for tear someone a new asshole.

Brian, Katie's step-father, had been in the office for over an hour, and Estella, who taught in the class below, had been hard pressed to stop her students from muttering and giggling at the low boom and roar of Mr Morris's voice as he, in the parlance of the day, 'Tore Ben a new one'.

2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 80:

(euphemistic) To express great anger toward (a person) for some perceived offence or shortcoming; to castigate.


share a bed

share a bed (third-person singular simple present shares a bed, present participle sharing a bed, simple past and past participle shared a bed)

shares a bed (present singular third-person)
sharing a bed (participle present)
shared a bed (participle past)
shared a bed (past)

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(euphemistic, intransitive) To engage in sexual intercourse (with someone).

Partager la couche de quelqu'unPartager le lit de quelqu'unPartager son lit


necessary house

en-noun

necessary house (plural necessary houses)

Likely formed under influence from necessarium (“monastic latrine, outhouse, or lavatory”) and necessary (“outhouse; lavatory”).

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

1747 15 December, Lord Chesterfield, letter

(euphemistic, obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation.


necessary place

necessary place (plural necessary places)

He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, carried them with him to that necessary place, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained, and I recommend you to follow his example.

(euphemistic, obsolete) A place used for the business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.


necessary stool

necessary stool (plural necessary stools)

(euphemistic, obsolete) A stool or seat used for the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: a chamber pot or toilet.


necessary vault

necessary vault (plural necessary vaults)


closet of ease

From the former euphemism do one's ease (“ease one's bowels: defecate”) and to distinguish the sense from other uses of closet (“a small, private room and [obs.] a small, private outdoor space”).

A Closet of ease.

1662, B. Gerbier, A Brief Description of the Principles of Building, page 27:

(euphemistic, obsolete) A room used to ease one's bowels: a lavatory.


small room

Has the railway carriage got a small room to it?

Whereas we strain in the small room, they immerse themselves in a ‘resting’ bath, which draws their waste from them.

(euphemistic, rare) A lavatory: a room intended for urination and defecation.


house of ease

From the former euphemism do one's ease (“ease one's bowels: defecate”).

Had you but through a Cranny spy'd
On House of Ease your future Bride.

1734, “Strephon & Cloe”, in Beautiful Young Nymph, Jonathan Swift, page 20:

(euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding used to ease one's bowels: an outhouse.


seat of ease

Round-house at the Head. Conveniences or seats of ease for the officers.

1850, J. Greenwood, The Sailor's Sea-book, page 143:


do one's ease

en-verb

do one's ease (third-person singular simple present does one's ease, present participle doing one's ease, simple past did one's ease, past participle done one's ease)

does one's ease (present singular third-person)
doing one's ease (participle present)
did one's ease (past)
done one's ease (participle past)

A clipped form of do one's easement, a former euphemism for easing one's bowels.

Another time, the old Duke of Main, who was uſed to play the drol with him, coming ſoftly into his Bedchamber, and thruſting in his Bald-head, and Long-neck, in a poſture to make the King merry, it happened the King was come from doing his Eaſe, and ſpying him, he took the round Cover of the Cloſe-ſtool, and clap'd it on his Bald-Sconce, […]

1620 May 22 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XVIII. To Sir James Crofts, from Paris.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section I, page 26:

(euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels; to defecate.


usual offices

en-noun

usual offices pl (normally plural, singular usual office)

A clarification of the intended sense of office (“outhouse; lavatory”).

Three reception, four bedrooms, kitchen, and usual offices.

(euphemistic, archaic) A place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse; a lavatory.


house of office

house of office (plural houses of office)

From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".

Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.

I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.

The very clerks—those somewhat dirty springs
Of office, or the House of Office.

1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XI, §xl, ll. 123 f:

(obsolete, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


down the cludgie

(Scotland slang, idiomatic, euphemistic) Alternative form of down the toilet: wasted or irretrievable.


gingerbread office

gingerbread office (plural gingerbread offices)

From gingerbread (“in its figurative use as ersatz or unpleasant”) + office (“place to fulfill one's obligations; place of business”)

There's no great need of Souldiers;
Their Camp's No larger than a Ginger-bread Office.

a. 1643, William Cartwright, Lady-Errant, Act V, Scene i:

"Gingerbread office" was an eighteenth-century slang term for public toilets, which were, Norton argues, meeting places for homosexuals to engage in sexual encounters. "Gingerbread-kake" and "ginger-bred queen" suggest what may happen in the "office" and name those involved.

2001, Chris Mounsey, Christopher Smart: Clown of God, page 192:

Mounsey also suggests that one poem in the volume further links Smart with homosexuality in its use of the term "gingerbread-office" as slang for a public toilet used for gay sexual encounters... If Mounsey is correct, then the later History of Giles Gingerbread may contain more than meets the eye, especially since its final poem is signed with the known Smart pseudonym, Tom Tagg.

2013, Noel Chevalier, “Breaking the Circle of the Sciences”, in Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-First Century, page 139:

(slang, euphemistic, obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


race realist

Taylor, a Yale graduate with international degrees, uses pseudoscience to make racism appear natural and calls his colleagues "race realists" (Fogg, 2006). These race realists were presenters at American Renaissance’s Seventh Biennial International Conference in Virginia in February of 2006 and included Nick Griffin.

2009, Mary E. Earick, Racially Equitable Teaching: Beyond the Whiteness of Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 39:

The publication of Galton's novel was picked up online by so-called race realists, whose websites I shall not flatter by listing, which further positioned it within the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature of ‘white crisis’ (Bonnet, 2008: 18–19).

2013, Debbie Challis, The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 12–13:

The self-described “race realist” is unrepentant in embracing the label and expounding his views.

2016 August 26, Jason Wilson, “'The races are not equal': meet the alt-right leader in Clinton's campaign ad”, in The Guardian:

scientific racism
scientific racism#English

(euphemistic) A believer in scientific racism (“racism presented as science or as supported by science”); a person who believes empirical evidence exists to support the notion of innate racial differences (that some races are superior and others inferior).


cunning linguistics

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(vulgar, colloquial, humorous, euphemistic) Synonym of cunnilingus.


little boys room

little boys room (plural little boys rooms)

little boys' room
little boys' room#English

(euphemistic, informal) Alternative form of little boys' room: a men's room, a public lavatory intended for men.


little girls room

little girls room (plural little girls rooms)

little girls' room
little girls' room#English

(euphemistic, informal) Alternative form of little girls' room: a ladies' room, a public lavatory intended for women.


gentlemen's room

gentlemen's room (plural gentlemen's rooms)

Originally a clipped form of waiting room; in later use, a clipped form of lavatory room, toilet room, private room, etc.

In each ladies' lavatory-room in the palace there were four pairs of these basins, and in each gentlemen's room three pairs and a range of five.

1873 July 16, William P. Blake, "Report... upon the Organization, Administration, and Results of the Vienna International Exhibition, 1873", §xi

Any room intended for use by men, particularly:

(euphemistic, dated) Synonym of men's room: a public lavatory intended for men.


gentlemen's

gentlemen's (plural)
Gentlemen's (alternative)

Clipping of gentlemen's room, originally a waiting room for men but by the first attestation of gentlemen's in general use as a euphemism for a men's lavatory.

A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27:

Over on that platform's the general waiting-room,... and over there's the Gentlemen's, and, any'ow, everythink's written up.

1933, James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer as "Shamus Frazer", Acorned Hog, page 78:

"I tell you what I must do, is to telephone. Where is it?"
"D'you mean really the telephone or the gentlemen's?"

1934, Evelyn Waugh, chapter III, in Handful of Dust, page 117:

(informal euphemistic) Synonym of men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men.


house of easement

house of easement (plural houses of easement)

From easement in its former euphemistic use to reference the easing of one's bowels.

Se the hous of esement be swete & clene.

[T]he lowest servants at Hampton Court used the great communal toilet capable of seating fourteen people at once named the ‘Common Jakes’ or the ‘Great House of Easement’. This giant facility discharged into a tank which was washed clean by the waters of the moat. Even so, the tank emitted a dreadful smell and frequently had to be scrubbed clean.

2011, Lucy Worsley, “The Whole World is a Toilet”, in If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 153:

(euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding in which to do one's easement (defecate): an outhouse.


do one's easement

en-verb

do one's easement (third-person singular simple present does one's easement, present participle doing one's easement, simple past did one's easement, past participle done one's easement)

does one's easement (present singular third-person)
doing one's easement (participle present)
did one's easement (past)
done one's easement (participle past)

He lit candles in the passage next to Patrick's closet, where his lordship wrote his letters, did his easement, took his bath, and knelt on winter nights to say his blackest prayers.

2013, Shirley McKay, “A Merry Month”, in Friend & Foe (A Hew Cullen Mystery), Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN:

(euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels: to defecate.


stool of easement

en-noun

stool of easement (plural stools of easement)

(euphemistic, obsolete) A stool upon which to ease one's bowels: a commode, a chamber pot.


siegehouse

siegehouses (plural)
siege-house (alternative)
siege house (alternative)
segehouse (alternative)
sege-house (alternative)
sege house (alternative)

From siege (“seat, toilet seat”) + house.

The sege houses in þe West~orcherd were graunte to hym.

A segehouse wold be vnder the open aire betwene two wallis.

1519, W. Horman, chapter XIX, in Vulgaria, page 170:

(euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.


petty-house

From petty (“anything small; a little house, an outhouse”) + house to clarify the intended sense.

(regional euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.


ladies' cloakroom

ladies' cloakroom (plural ladies' cloakrooms)

(euphemistic, obsolete) A ladies' room: a lavatory intended for use by women.


toilet room

toilet rooms (plural)
toiletroom (alternative)
toilet-room (alternative)

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Originally from French chambre or cabinet de toilette, used for private grooming areas and then euphemistically for the locations of chamber pots and the plumbing fixtures which took their name from the room. Now generally understood as a direct (even impolitely overly direct) reference to the fixtures.

The other apartments are for toilet rooms for both sexes, on first and second floors.

1854, San Francisco Board of Education, Annual Report, page 9:

To have at least four seat closets placed in the toilet room adjoining the assembly and at least two in the toilet room adjoining the senate.

1895, State of Wisconsin, Laws, page 795:

(originally US euphemistic) A room in which to use a toilet: a lavatory.


cunning linguist

cunning linguist (plural cunning linguists)

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From use in bawdy puns with the near-homophone cunnilingus.

Then he wrote: "God is Dead" and "I Am a Cunning Linguist." McLean walked over and asked the man why he was writing these things. "Can't ya read, mister?" snarled the little man.

1968, Norton Mockridge, The scrawl of the wild: what people write on walls and why, page 11:

My love's a cunning linguist.
His tongue's my greatest treasure.
With "tu bella" and "liebe dich"
He bends me to his pleasure.

1970, John Boyd, The Organ Bank Farm, page 190:

Become a Cunning Linguist – She Loves Oral Sex!

2003, April Masini, Date Out of Your League, page 156:

An obvious choice to endorse ChapStick, Mr. Smith knows that ladies love a cunning linguist and a moist mouth.

2005, Vibe, volume 13, number 9, page 107:

Frank Sewell, the most gifted poet of a new generation of Northern Ireland poets stated that the translator goes down on history; a cunning linguist.

2009, Pat Boran, Flowing, Still: Irish poets on Irish poetry, page 69:

(vulgar, colloquial, humorous, euphemistic) One who performs cunnilingus.


rabbit raisins

(humorous, euphemistic) rabbit droppings


daughter of joy

daughter of joy (plural daughters of joy)

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energetic event

energetic event (plural energetic events)

(euphemistic, astronautics, engineering) An explosion.


learning difficulty

learning difficulty (plural learning difficulties)

Developmental disability
Learning disability

(UK, euphemistic) Any of a series of medically recognized conditions (as opposed to diseases) that inhibit a person's ability to function in the world.


horizontal tango

horizontal tango (plural horizontal tangos)

/ˌhɒ.ɹɪˈzɒn.təl ˈtæŋ.ɡəʊ/

/ˌhɔː.ɹəˈzɑːn.təl ˈtæŋ.ɡoʊ/

Researchers spoke to 312 men between the ages of 20 and 40 at a San Diego urology clinic and found that 3.4 percent of men preferred flying solo with co-pilot porn to a horizontal tango with a partner.

2017 May 30, Kimberly M. Aquilina, “Can porn mess with your sexual mojo? Survey says...”, in Metro US, archived from the original on 2017-06-02:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.


antiprofessional

en-adj

antiprofessional (comparative more antiprofessional, superlative most antiprofessional)

more antiprofessional (comparative)
most antiprofessional (superlative)

(euphemistic) Opposing prostitution, or prostitutes; antiprostitution.


dumbcluck

(euphemistic) Alternative form of dumb cluck.


doodoohead

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Alex, why'd I get a call from your principal saying that you called Mrs. Stevens a doodoohead?

(colloquial, euphemistic, childish, derogatory) An objectionable person.


boom-boom

en-noun

boom-boom (countable and uncountable, plural boom-booms)

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“A long time ago, when I was a baby, I went boom-boom on a leaf. Boom! Boom! Then I fell backwards and sat in my own boom-boom. I cried for a day...” [sobbing] “...but no one came to help me. That day, I vowed to help anyone in need, no matter how small their problem. And that's why I need to go.”

2010 May 3, Bert Youn & Sean Jimenez, “Memories of Boom Boom Mountain” (1:32 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 1, spoken by Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada):

Whatever the case, he was quite close to making boom-boom in his pants.

2012, Joe Micik, 0.00: Tales of the Sober Kid at College, Joe Micik, →ISBN, page 199:

When we’re mad, we’ll just use our words, then the rest of the world will play nice with us. And the only boom-booms will be in our pants.

2015 September 9, Mark NC, quoting Ralph Wiggum of The Simpsons, “Remedial Republicans: Or How Ralph Wiggum Foretold The Coming Of Donald Trump”, in News Corpse, retrieved 2016-09-02:

“Ho-ho! Little Billy made a boom-boom.” [crowd groaning] “Go change him.” “If I leave, I lose my table. I'm going to change him right here, right next to your poutine.”

2018 June 18, Andrew Carr, “Sunny and Share” (5:56 from the start), in Corner Gas Animated, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Alison (Shannon Chan-Kent):

(euphemistic, childish, chiefly uncountable) Excrement.


scratch one's own itch

en-verb

scratch one's own itch (third-person singular simple present scratches one's own itch, present participle scratching one's own itch, simple past and past participle scratched one's own itch)

scratches one's own itch (present singular third-person)
scratching one's own itch (participle present)
scratched one's own itch (participle past)
scratched one's own itch (past)


angel mom

From the sentiment that a mother's child has gone to heaven and is now an angel.
In 2000 the organization "Angel Moms" was founded, a group of mothers whose children had died, not limited to a specific cause. In the second sense the term was introduced by Donald Trump on 31 August 2016 at the end of a speech about illegal immigration. He had mothers whose child was killed by an illegal immigrant come on stage and tell their story.

(US, informal, euphemistic) A mother whose child has died.


swing that way

swing that way (third-person singular simple present swings that way, present participle swinging that way, simple past and past participle swung that way)

swings that way (present singular third-person)
swinging that way (participle present)
swung that way (participle past)
swung that way (past)


autolyzed yeast extract

en-noun

autolyzed yeast extract (plural autolyzed yeast extracts)

monosodium glutamate
monosodium glutamate#English

(euphemistic) Synonym of monosodium glutamate.


hydrolyzed vegetable protein

hydrolyzed vegetable protein (plural hydrolyzed vegetable proteins)


years young

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He is 85 years young.


wuckin'

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

no wuckin' furries
no wuckin' furries#English

(Australia, slang, euphemistic) Pronunciation spelling of wucking; only used in no wuckin' furries.


no wuckas

From no wuckin' furries, a jocular spoonerism of no fuckin' worries.

no wuckers (alternative)
no wukkas (alternative)
no wuckaz (alternative)
no wukkaz (alternative)
no wucks (alternative)
no wucken furries (alternative)
no wuckies (alternative)

(Australia, slang, euphemistic) Synonym of no worries.


moonlight requisition

moonlight requisition (plural moonlight requisitions)

One problem that became apparent from almost the first acquisition, was that of vandalism and pilfering. It seemed that as soon as a party moved, the area "jungle telegraph" would alert those in the habit of making "moonlight requisitions" to become active.

1973, John Postlewait, Harry Knudson, “Some experiences in land acquisition for a land disposal system for sewage effluent”, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Recycling Municipal Sludges and Effluents on Land: July 9-13, 1973, Champaign, Illinois, Washington: Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, pages 33–34:

(slang, euphemistic) Theft or receipt of stolen goods.


small game

May be it is like that medicine a fellow rung in on poor lawyer Mac Campbell, to kill fleas, bed bugs, and all sich^([sic]) small game; and made the lawyer believe it was so heavy that three ounces weighed a pound.

1841, The New Sporting Magazine, page 9:

Smells, bad drainage, impure water, unhealthiness of situation, dampness, the absence of advantages mentioned, the presence of small game […]

1875, J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House:


ride the cotton pony

en-verb

ride the cotton pony (third-person singular simple present rides the cotton pony, present participle riding the cotton pony, simple past rode the cotton pony, past participle ridden the cotton pony)

rides the cotton pony (present singular third-person)
riding the cotton pony (participle present)
rode the cotton pony (past)
ridden the cotton pony (participle past)

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Sanitary pads are made from cotton, with the placement of the pad giving the image of "straddling" a pony".


ride the cotton horse

ride the cotton horse (third-person singular simple present rides the cotton horse, present participle riding the cotton horse, simple past rode the cotton horse, past participle ridden the cotton horse)

rides the cotton horse (present singular third-person)
riding the cotton horse (participle present)
rode the cotton horse (past)
ridden the cotton horse (participle past)

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ride the cotton pony
ride the cotton pony#English

(slang, euphemistic) Synonym of ride the cotton pony.


ride the cotton bicycle

ride the cotton bicycle (third-person singular simple present rides the cotton bicycle, present participle riding the cotton bicycle, simple past rode the cotton bicycle, past participle ridden the cotton bicycle)

rides the cotton bicycle (present singular third-person)
riding the cotton bicycle (participle present)
rode the cotton bicycle (past)
ridden the cotton bicycle (participle past)

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light on one's feet

en-adj

light on one's feet (comparative lighter on one's feet, superlative lightest on one's feet)

lighter on one's feet (comparative)
lightest on one's feet (superlative)

(informal, euphemistic) effeminate, homosexual


drop a log

en-verb

drop a log (third-person singular simple present drops a log, present participle dropping a log, simple past and past participle dropped a log)

drops a log (present singular third-person)
dropping a log (participle present)
dropped a log (participle past)
dropped a log (past)

(euphemistic, idiomatic, slang, vulgar) To defecate.


appointment in Samarra

en-noun

appointment in Samarra (plural appointments in Samarra)

Literary reference to an ancient Babylonian myth, transcribed by W. Somerset Maugham, in which Death is both the narrator and a central character.

Perhaps if each of us could truly accept his "appointment in Samarra," the activity of that skeleton in card thirteen would not seem so threatening.

1980, Sallie Nichols, Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey, page 232:

John O'Hara kept his appointment in Samarra Saturday at the age of 65, and even though I am aware that the Black Hawks are romping toward a Stanley Cup triumph and the Cubs are opening at home tomorrow and the world's greatest golfers are concluding an epic struggle over Augusta National's picturesque acres, I'm going to devote this column to John O'Hara because I think I owe it to him.

2011, Bob Markus, I'll Play These: A Sports Writer's Life, page 178:


pass the river

en-verb

pass the river (third-person singular simple present passes the river, present participle passing the river, simple past and past participle passed the river)

passes the river (present singular third-person)
passing the river (participle present)
passed the river (participle past)
passed the river (past)

Allusion to the crossing of the river Styx, the boundary between life and Hades, in Classical Greek mythology.

To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time.

1991, Anthony Hope, edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 216–219:


race realism

(euphemistic) Synonym of scientific racism.


up poo creek

(euphemistic, idiomatic) Alternative form of up shit creek.


motherfouler

“He ainʼt got a damn thing. Let the motherfouler alone.”

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 542:


hang it

"Hang it, you might say I only took her on out of kindness - poor woman having to put up with a beetling bughound like Peabody. But it's taught me a lesson; no more kindness to married women."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:

(dated, euphemistic) dang; darn (a mild expression of contempt)


breathe one's last

breathe one's last (third-person singular simple present breathes one's last, present participle breathing one's last, simple past and past participle breathed one's last)

breathes one's last (present singular third-person)
breathing one's last (participle present)
breathed one's last (participle past)
breathed one's last (past)

Perhaps first used in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3 (c. 1591). Compare breathe (“to live”).

Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last;
And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

She breathed her last surrounded by her family and friends, commending them to God and the study of his word.

1852 September 9, Thomas J. Plummer, “Obituary notices”, in The Millennial Harbinger, page 120:

The Green Council” is a tense chess game of an episode, kicking off the power vacuum that we knew was coming the moment Viserys breathed his last.

2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:


another place

House of Commons
House of Commons#English

(UK politics, In the House of Lords) the House of Commons.


reeducation camp

en-noun

reeducation camp (plural reeducation camps)

From reeducation + camp. First use appears c. 1935 in the Oakland Tribune.

Although the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now encourages Vietnamese refugees to visit their native land, many refuse to do so, fearing that [...] they would be hustled off to reeducation camps to face starvation, over-work, and slow death.

1989, James Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives, page 11:

(euphemistic) A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination.

再教育營 /再教育营

camp where dissidents undergo reeducation


woman of ill fame

woman of ill fame (plural women of ill fame)


male enhancement

male enhancement (countable and uncountable, plural male enhancements)

Male Enhancement Pills Is it a Hoax or Do They Really Work? A Pill That Can Increase Your Size!* Just pay for the postage stamp.

(euphemistic) A method of enlarging the penis.

We live in a culture where ads for “male enhancement” are commonplace, and currently, three drugs—Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis—compete for the erectile dysfunction market.

2004, Meika Loe, The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 3:

It may be less than shocking that about 70 percent of the transactions made through rogue pharmacy websites advertised by Gusev's SpamIt and Vrublevsky's Rx-Promotion were for male-enhancement drugs like Viagra and Cialis.

2014, Brian Krebs, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 67:

(euphemistic) A chemical means of inducing an erection of the penis.


poop sandwich

(US, euphemistic) Synonym of shit sandwich.


roof rabbit

From roof + rabbit. From the common habit of cats to prowl on rooftops, and the meat being sold or passed off as rabbit. Similar formations exist in several European languages. Perhaps the earliest attestation (and eventual origin?) is Middle Low German bönhase (“cat”, literally “loft hare”), which is attested in the early 14th century (as a name and thus probably even older). More at German Bönhase and Dachhase.

der

dakhaas

(euphemistic) cat meat — see also cat meat


nymph of darkness

en-noun

nymph of darkness (plural nymphs of darkness)

(euphemistic, dated) A female prostitute.


close one's eyes for the last time

en-verb

close one's eyes for the last time (third-person singular simple present closes one's eyes for the last time, present participle closing one's eyes for the last time, simple past and past participle closed one's eyes for the last time)

closes one's eyes for the last time (present singular third-person)
closing one's eyes for the last time (participle present)
closed one's eyes for the last time (participle past)
closed one's eyes for the last time (past)


tussie-mussie

tussie-mussies (plural)
tussy-mussy (alternative)
tuzzy-muzzy (alternative)
tuzzie-muzzie (alternative)
tuzziemuzzie (alternative)
tuzzymuzzy (alternative)
tuzzimuzzy (alternative)

From Scottish Gaelic tùs f (“nice smell, incense”) and debatable second part, a mere reduplication, or mùsg (“musk”) for a moschate flower, or mùisear (“primrose”).

der

We got as thick as we could be,
And every night drank strong bohea;
Says he, ‘You shall be my son-in-law,
And marry the Princess Washy Taw–’
Says I, ‘Your majesty, hold your jaw!
I will accept the Princess Paw—
With her tuzzy muzzy, hoki poki,
 hunky nunky, roki boki,
pulka wulka, joki koki,
All in the Tongo Islands.

1850, William Thomas Moncrieff, “The Tongo Islands, sung by Mr. T.P. Cooke”, in An original collection of Songs, sung at the Theatres Royal, Public Concerts &c., London: John Duncombe, page 108:

(historical, humorous, vulgar, euphemistic) The pudendum muliebre.


back-butt

back-butts (plural)
back butt (alternative)
backbutt (alternative)

From back + butt. A retronym-like formation made as a counterpart to the euphemism front butt (“vagina”).

The amended criminal complaint specifically alleged that Hirsch touched A.L.H.'s "front butt" or vaginal area (Count I), then her "back butt" or anal area (Count II), and then her "front butt" a second time (Count III).

1987, North western reporter. Second series:

Well I was leaning over to get something, I think it was a blanket and then I felt his hand like on my back butt.

1988, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Montana, Volume 232:

K.R. further testified that E.H. also made her suck her “back butt.” When asked to show the court where her “back butt” was, K.R. stood up and pointed to her tailbone.

But this time Mr Butt turned his gruesome, bared back-butt to me and let fly with a hideous windripper that must have broken records.

2016, Steve Cole, Invisible Inc., →ISBN:

(Canada, US, slang, euphemistic) Buttocks.


hoo-hoo

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As other media did their usual cookie-cutter coverage, Redmond wrote of earthier matters: the late, great, 1,400-pound boar Spots Stallone and his massive hoo-hoos.

1996 October, Bettie Cadou, “Fresh Prints”, in Indianapolis Monthly, volume 20, number 2, page 88:

A black guy showed up in the nude, his hoo-hoo in the state of erection.

2002, Richard R. Booth, Picture, If You Will, →ISBN, page 133:

Now, here she was, however many years later, and her hair-hair was still as black as black could ever hope to be—but her hoo-hoo hair was, well, GONE.

2008, Jill Conner Browne, American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets, →ISBN:

Is that the way a Miss Teen Dream sits, all slutty like that with her hoo-hoo showing?

I know I have to help my daughter learn to drive her vagina responsibly. Eventually. You know, so she comes to realize the respect she should have for her hoo-hoo.

2012, Dan Bucatinsky, Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad, →ISBN:

(euphemistic) The genitals or genital area.


for goodness' sakes

A euphemistic replacement of "God" in for God's sake.

'For goodness' sakes, Father,' cried Emma, the bright tears in her eyes drying because her eyeballs were so hot and angry, 'for goodness' sakes, Father, the idea of acting - so - horrid.

1928, Fannie Hurst, A President is Born, page 23:

"Didn't you talk to her, for goodness sakes? Just what have you been doing in there for the past hour?"

1991, John S. Applegate, Thy Kingdom Come: Tales of a Small-Town Lawyer, →ISBN, page 169:

"Oh, for goodness sakes. At least can you tell me if she's there?"

2000, Parnell Hall, A Clue for the Puzzle Lady, →ISBN, page 272:

'For goodness sakes, Ray,' Aunty Bea exclaimed exasperated, 'haven't you noticed the state of your niece?'

2014, Anne McCullagh Rennie, Reach for the Dream, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Used to express frustration, exasperation, annoyance.

Learn to play a reed instrument; do not borrow money; do not lend money; do not make money — [laughter] — and for goodness sakes, do not lose money.

1994, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 769:

The most important thing that I would say to you, is as you develop those priorities, for goodness sakes, also take the time to think about the future and the burden that we are going to put on future generations by what you do today.

2004, United States Congress Senate Committee on Finance, Examination of proposals for economic growth and job creation:

They finished each other's sentences, for goodness sakes!

2010, Julie Christensen, Searching For Meredith Love, →ISBN:

He was an undercover agent, for goodness sakes. Once a job was done, of course he would move on.

2012, Andrea Edwards, Secret Agent Groom, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Used for emphasis.

For goodness' sakes!" Fannie broke out in surprise when she saw Molly there. "For goodness' sakes! Where you been hiding these days?"

1943, Estelle Schrott, Heaven is for the Angels, page 352:

Surprise, surprise, do you believe your eyes? Well for goodness sakes, that takes the cake.

2002, Spotlight Grade 1 Songs and Stories, →ISBN, page 10:

"For goodness sakes — " she repeated. Now she was just surprised.

2005, Wallace J. Gordon, One Day in Paris, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Used to express surprise or amazement.


feel no pain

en-verb

feel no pain (third-person singular simple present feels no pain, present participle feeling no pain, simple past and past participle felt no pain)

feels no pain (present singular third-person)
feeling no pain (participle present)
felt no pain (participle past)
felt no pain (past)

The evidence is undisputed that Scott Peterson and the other boys chipped in (pooled their money) to buy the beer, that they were all together drinking it, that they all "felt no pain".

1979 Feb. 21, Justice Lee, "Munford, Inc. v. Ira Peterson et al.," Supreme Court of Mississippi, 368 So. 2d 213 (1979), No. 50856 (retrieved 27 May 2017)

Pop came over with a number of his saloon cronies . . . . They were feeling no pain as usual, and all was high hilarity as my dad showed them proudly all around.

1997, John McCabe, Cagney, ch. 1 (reprinted in New York Times) (retrieved 27 May 2017)


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[H]e tossed back so many stiff highballs that he lost count. Feeling no pain, he proceeded to insult his host, lose control of his bladder, pass out on the floor, and was carried home.

1978 May 22, “Behavior: Drinking as a Way of Life”, in Time, retrieved 2017-05-27:

Hill, virtually teetotal and a non-smoker, had by this time availed himself of more than one glass of Schnapps and a chunky cigar, courtesy of Rothmans motorhome manager Karl-Heinz Zimmermann, and was feeling no pain.

1996 October 19, David Tremayne, “Invitation to world party”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2017-05-27:

By the time I’d had a pint or two at a pub, I was feeling no pain.

2012 November 23, Ron Wadden, “Dear Diary: I feel like an Albertan in my blood”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 2017-05-27:


teach the controversy

teach the controversy (third-person singular simple present teaches the controversy, present participle teaching the controversy, simple past and past participle taught the controversy)

teaches the controversy (present singular third-person)
teaching the controversy (participle present)
taught the controversy (participle past)
taught the controversy (past)

Recent developments in some of the states suggest that all public high school biology teachers may soon have to prepare themselves - whether they like it or not - to teach the controversy.

2008, Patrick H. Clancy, Teaching the Controversy: A How-to Guide for Public (Government) School Biology, Xulon Press, →ISBN:

Senator Rick Santorum is a Pennsylvanian in the same circles (author of the ' Santorum Language' that encourages schools to teach the controversy) ...

2009, Lauri Lebo, The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma V. Darwin in Small-town America, The New Press, →ISBN, page 111:

To the extent that ID is a religious idea, and teaching the controversy is not about teaching a real scientific controversy, there are significant endorsement problems .

2010, Frank S. Ravitch, Marketing Intelligent Design: Law and the Creationist Agenda, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93:

(US, euphemistic, creationism) To teach that life forms may have been created (almost) in their current form by a sentient being in a manner consistent with Christian dogmata, rather than as a result of ordinary evolution, and that the theory of evolution is controversial.


decades young

Gaily-garbed Indians and an historical diamond-stacked locomotive, nearly nine decades young, featured a public program there.

1956, The Santa Fe Magazine, volume 50, page 18:

The distinguished biochemist William C. Rose, now almost nine decades young, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at Illinois, has provided a first-hand account of the functioning of the Illinois 25 Department under Adams.

1977, American chemistry: bicentennial, page 220:

At some eight decades young (born 1908 according to the Hornbook of Virginia History), he discussed history as he saw and lived it.

1985, Virginia Review, volume 73, page 29:

This is wade fishing of the finest order, and at eight decades young, Bill Meshanic, the sage of the Finger Lakes Chapter of Trout Unlimited, is its biggest fan.

2001, New York Sportsman, volume 30, issues 1-4, page 81


wide stance

From the Larry Craig scandal. Police sergeant Dave Karsnia paraphrased Craig as having said that he "has a wide stance when going to the bathroom and that his foot may have touched mine".

(slang, euphemistic, sometimes humorous) homosexuality (as an attribute of a person)


Yoshke

“And he’s not to mention Yoshke’s name once. If he does, we get up and leave.” / “He wants to know who Yoshke is.” Shoshanna giggled. / “I should teach him who Yoshke is? Yoshke, Yoisel, the guy on the cross, tell him.” / Very carefully, Shoshanna said, “Your gentleman on your cross.” She was afraid of saying Jesus.

(Judaism, euphemistic, derogatory) Jesus


vitally challenged

imagine... 85 years old Cohen the Barbarian and his "gray horde"... death as DEATH, an antropomorphic^([sic]) personification, that is... meetings of the "vitally challenged (= the undead)"...

1997 June 12, Sascha LC Erni, “Tips-of-the-hat (was: Mythos - A shared world?)”, in alt.horror.cthulhu (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.95.970612144354.13110E-100000@goblin.studi.unizh.ch>:

I blame the new hard line on welfare for driving driving^([sic]) the vitally challenged onto the streets instead of leaving them in State run graveyards

1998 May 8, Dabe the Hobbit, “Re: somebody please take this necronomicon away”, in alt.necronomicon (Usenet), message-ID <3552F6A5.9A96933B@pls.bris.ac.uk>:

This is the party of "vote early, vote often," where even the "vitally challenged" (the PC term for "dead people") still have the right to vote […]

2006 November 26, wayne, “10 liberal lies #7”, in alt.x.y (Usenet), message-ID <13343-4569CC79-1997@storefull-3358.bay.webtv.net>:

(humorous, euphemistic) the dead; those who have died


mothertrucker

Don't worry. I paid those mothertruckers. They're trying to drain all my money, but that's all right.

2013, Maxine Thompson, L.A. Blues III: Smooth Stones:

Can I trust you to keep these mothertruckers in line?

2015, Christopher Locke, Jaya Bhumitra, Persimmon Takes On Humanity:


heckfire

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open one's bowels

open one's bowels (third-person singular simple present opens one's bowels, present participle opening one's bowels, simple past and past participle opened one's bowels)

opens one's bowels (present singular third-person)
opening one's bowels (participle present)
opened one's bowels (participle past)
opened one's bowels (past)


overrefreshed

en-adj

overrefreshed (comparative more overrefreshed, superlative most overrefreshed)

more overrefreshed (comparative)
most overrefreshed (superlative)


give a fig

en-verb

give a fig (third-person singular simple present gives a fig, present participle giving a fig, simple past gave a fig, past participle given a fig)

gives a fig (present singular third-person)
giving a fig (participle present)
gave a fig (past)
given a fig (participle past)

I couldn’t give a fig!

For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32:

The railroads owned by U.S. Steel have never given a fig for prestige so long as their owner's ore was hauled to the mills economically.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 28:

(informal, euphemistic, negative) To care what someone else thinks or does, particularly in relation to what they think or say about the speaker.


consanguinamory

From Latin consanguinitas (“blood-relationship”) + amor (“love”) + -y, coined by activist Cristina Shy.

Most US states still have laws against consensual incest (consanguinamory), and in most of them, people do continue to be prosecuted for simply loving each other. Laws against gay sex have been struck down by the Supreme Court. So, gay sex is legal nationwide, consanguinamory isn't.

2012 September 11, “Hollywood director places incest alongside gay marriage”, in San Diego LGBT Weekly:

Consanguinamory (consensual adult incest) is not a crime in the US states of New Jersey and Rhode Island and there has been no problem as a result.

2015 August 17, Endrik Wilhelm, “Lawyer: 'Legalize incest!'”, in Deutsche Welle:

"Consanguinamory," is Shy's term for incestuous relationships, which she says should be legalized and recognized as "marriage."

2016 August 18, James B., “Mother Willing to go to Jail in Fight For Sexual Relationship With Son”, in The Christian Post:

Their founders call themselves advocates and use the word "consanguinamory" to name what they argue is a sexual orientation. They're very up-front about their goal. They want to normalize what they call "consensual" incest and even speak as if their plight were the same as that of other groups who have historically been marginalized for their sexual identity. One day they'll have a float at Pride, or at least they deserve one. They write as if they were sexual minorities who need law and culture changes to protect their marginalized desire, and in forums members adapt language from LGBTQ activism: think "consang-positive," "love is love," and "equal rights".

2022, Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Still in the dark fringy margins are the other two groups who, like polyamorists, have their own spanking new euphemistic names. Those who are in sexual relationships with close relatives have renamed incest "consanguinamory."

2022 February 4, “Incest and Pedophilia Comin’ to Town”, in Family Institute lIlinois:

(neologism, euphemistic) Consensual adult romantic and/or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest.


central adiposity

Patient has central adiposity.

(medicine, sometimes euphemistic) Abdominal obesity.


demnition

Alteration of damnation; appears to have been popularized by the speech of the character Mr. Mantalini in Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby (1839).

1841, Edward FitzGerald, letter to W. F. Pollock dated 10 February, 1841, in The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward FitzGerald, Volume 7, p. 22,
Luckily for you, my farming is a good deal hindered by these demnition snows and frosts […]

It is hard to tell whether the American stage is going to the demnition bow-wows for lack of honest and intelligent criticism or whether there is no such thing as criticism because there is nothing on the American stage worth criticising.

1891 May 21, James Stetson Metcalfe, “Theatre-Goers’ Enemies”, in Life, volume 17, number 438, page 325:

“Look here, dash it all,” said the General, “are we to understand that we are a couple of demnition ghosts?”

1907, Robert Blatchford, chapter 3, in The Sorcery Shop, London: Clarion, page 31:

Since June 4th, when we had to whang off the whole of our priceless 600 rounds of H.E., we have had none for 18-prs. on the Peninsula—not one solitary demnition round; nor do we seem in the least likely to get one solitary demnition round.

1920, Ian Hamilton, chapter 13, in Gallipoli Diary, volume 2, London: Edward Arnold, page 9:


demnition

‘The wine is demnition good!’ replied Selden; ‘but our friend Charley seems to be in the dumps—it don’t wake him up.’

1849, Ned Buntline, New York: A Story of Real Life, Dublin: James M’Glashan, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 287:

1918, Clarence Herbert New, The Unseen Hand: Stories of Diplomatic Adventure, New York: Caldwell, Chapter 1, p. 12,
They read a bloomin’ magazine story clear through from start to finish—written by a man who’s not even English, I’m told—an’ then are so demnition thick they don’t even know it’s pure fiction!


demnition

“[…] It is enough to make one swear. Demnition! if my mother heard of it, what would she say!”

1852, Dennis Hannigan, chapter 11, in The Swamp Steed, New York: Dewitt & Davenport, page 82:

(euphemistic, obsolete) Damn (used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.).


ethnically challenged

en-adj

ethnically challenged (comparative more ethnically challenged, superlative most ethnically challenged)

more ethnically challenged (comparative)
most ethnically challenged (superlative)

An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

[…] everybody knew, and agreed, that you didn't cut in line or urinate on sidewalks in public (a new cultural practice among the ethnically challenged) or just plain be rude and disagreeable.

2000, Fred Reed, The Great Possum-Squashing and Beer Storm of 1962:

“And I want to thank you for pointing that out at long last instead of referring to me as a little ethnically challenged boy in drag.”

2009, William Delaney, You Break It, You Die, page 32:

Young Muslims are essentially seen as 'ethnically challenged' and this is put at the core of their experience of disadvantaged positions. Prejudice and discrimination present authentically serious difficulties […]

2015, Graham Bright, Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts, page 176:

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Belonging to a marginalized ethnicity.


no-no spot

2001 August 8, by The Ikon that can still go, “Chad Bryant touches 12 year olds in the no-no spot.”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Hello...my mommy is bleeding. Down there in her no no spot. She's having me a baby brother.

2011, Diane Simmons, The Moth's Flame, page 309:

“In my no-no spot.” “Your no-no spot? You're joking, right?” She stared at him, unblinking. “You know what, Ginny? I, uh, actually think I have to go. The bus. Taking the bus out of here. Or maybe the Blue Line.”

2015, Erik Fassnacht, A Good Family: A Novel, page 11:

James: Did you kick him in his no-no spot? Lucy: I so regret using that term with you.


special lassi

en-noun

special lassi (countable and uncountable, plural special lassis)

(India, euphemistic) A lassi (yogurt-based drink) with cannabis mixed in.


Persian love

The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism.

1908, Medical Council: Volume 13, page 12:


bull gravy

(US, slang, euphemistic) Nonsense; bullshit.


monthly bill

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(colloquial, euphemistic) A woman's time of menstruation.


no better than one ought to be

en-adj

no better than one ought to be (not comparable)

There were no whisperings, even from his opponents, that he was no better than he ought to be. Because, there was nothing wrong on which to hang a charge. As an eloquent orator, he carried with him the firm support of a good name.

1848, The American Pulpit, volume 3, page 120:

After dinner she went directly to Melissa.
“Mellie,” she said, “do you know, I've good reason for thinking this woman you've got is no better than she ought to be. Think of that, and you sick, and Abraham exposed to temptation.”

1867, Caroline Fairfield Corbin, A Woman's Secret, page 162:

Everybody agreed that though nothing was known concerning Mrs. Markwood, she was no better than she ought to be.

1891, Charles Garvice, Better Than Life, page 290:

(dated, euphemistic) Sexually promiscuous.


debt of nature

Ten years after he had seen his son married^([sic]), become a church member, and give up his carnal delights, old Deacon Smith paid the debt of nature. His last days he always called his best days.

1850, T. S. Arthur, “Deacon Smith and his Violin”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 76:

(euphemistic) Death, seen as an obligation that all living creatures must eventually pay.


ease oneself

en-verb

ease oneself (third-person singular simple present eases oneself, present participle easing oneself, simple past and past participle eased oneself)

eases oneself (present singular third-person)
easing oneself (participle present)
eased oneself (participle past)
eased oneself (past)

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relieve nature

relieve nature (third-person singular simple present relieves nature, present participle relieving nature, simple past and past participle relieved nature)

relieves nature (present singular third-person)
relieving nature (participle present)
relieved nature (participle past)
relieved nature (past)


(Internet slang, euphemistic) The vulva or vagina.


check-out time

Right now for You, Lord, I must make time, because soon it will be my check-out time.

2001, Lisa C. Williams, Self Discovery: Prose and Poems-A Journey from Pain to Purpose, →ISBN:

If it is their time can they die with dignity and should they have the choice to know about and utilize the ancient method of self-euthanasia used by the lamas throughout time? What is this ancient method and can it be misused? How do we know if what we are facing is our check-out time or just a challenge?

2009, Jasmuheen, Divine Radiance - on the Road with the Masters of Magic, →ISBN, page 294:

Several water smudges and an obvious attempt to wipe them away dotted across the paper. Also, I never (sorry about that, I got a little weepy— fuck it!) planned to carry this affliction to term. My check-out time is another thing that's going to be my call. Dying an inch at a time is not my style.

2012, Jim Tuggle, Beyond the Pale, →ISBN:


disorderly house

en-noun

disorderly house (plural disorderly houses)

But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses […].

1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 15:

Pekara, along with Officers Robert Margelewski and Roger O'Brien then ordered the theater lights turned on and began making arrests. Sixteen men were charged as inmates of a disorderly house and the cashier was arrested as the keeper of a disorderly house. The man from Elgin was arrested on charges of soliciting an act of prostitution.

1981 August 22, Larry Goldsmith, “Theater Sex Charges Dropped”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 1:

Four years ago Cynthia Payne was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for keeping a disorderly house. Madam Sin of Streatham gave the popular newspapers everything they had ever wished for – kinky sex, anonymous Top People, a police raid and, the most intriguing element of all, payment by Luncheon Voucher.

1982 October 12, Craig Brown, “Writing Cynthia Payne's biography”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Her crime was less dramatic: she was found guilty of keeping a disorderly house by the Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson […].

2009, Dan Cruikshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, page 5:


give a hoot

en-verb

give a hoot (third-person singular simple present gives a hoot, present participle giving a hoot, simple past gave a hoot, past participle given a hoot)

gives a hoot (present singular third-person)
giving a hoot (participle present)
gave a hoot (past)
given a hoot (participle past)

I don't care for a glorious name— / I wouldn't give a hoot for fame;

1909 July 10, Wilberforce Jenkins, “A True Philosopher”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 41, number 4, Light Verse, page 595:

Give a hoot — don't pollute!

1971 September 15, United States Forest Service

(chiefly US slang, idiomatic, euphemistic) To care about; to place value on something.


woman of the town

en-noun

woman of the town (plural women of the town)

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BTM

That child needs a smack on the BTM!

They sat on their BTMs all day and got nothing done.

(colloquial, euphemistic) Abbreviation of bottom.


pulling the plug

(idiomatic, euphemistic) passive euthanasia


bouncy-bouncy

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Sexual intercourse
sexual intercourse#English

(rare, slang, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.


do one's duty

en-verb

do one's duty (third-person singular simple present does one's duty, present participle doing one's duty, simple past did one's duty, past participle done one's duty)

does one's duty (present singular third-person)
doing one's duty (participle present)
did one's duty (past)
done one's duty (participle past)

From doo-doo, doody, etc. used as euphemisms for shit.

And when I was being toilet-trained as a very little boy, she'd always ask, "Have you done your duty?" That was the word for it.

1996, Derrick Humphreys, John A. Munro, The making of a grey panther: the Derrick Humphreys story, page 8:

If a society is incapable of that kind of trust, it is also incapable of freedom. But if one really believes that only productivity can create strength — that a human being, in other words, has to justify himself or herself by producing something — then maybe the psychoanalysts are right, and everything does go back to toilet training and mother's saying, "Have you produced today, have you done your duty?"

(euphemistic) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate.


foxtrot oscar

foxtrot oscar (third-person singular simple present foxtrot oscars, present participle foxtrot oscaring, simple past and past participle foxtrot oscared)

foxtrot oscars (present singular third-person)
foxtrot oscaring (participle present)
foxtrot oscared (participle past)
foxtrot oscared (past)

From Foxtrot and Oscar, denoting the initials of fuck off in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Sleeping rough after a heavy night is not a major priority to most of the local residents on any big city streets. He wasn't causing offence; if anything he was not cooperating with the crew, waking up and telling them to ‘foxtrot oscar’.

2012, Sarah Fellows, Bob Fellows, Paramedics: From Street To Emergency Department: Case Book, McGraw-Hill Education, Open University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

(slang, humorous, euphemistic) To fuck off.


starlight tour

(Canada, euphemistic) A practice in which Saskatoon police drove Aboriginal people out of the city and left them to freeze.


fancy house

Turner probably visited Angel regularly. He paid for her fancy house.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 239:

From what I've been able to pry out of her the fancy house customers weren't allowed to hit.

In turn as Liz's madam, Yolanda continually ran such a clean ship for Liz and made so much money, that she ended up with her own "fancy house".

2017, J. B. Fisher, The Blessing of Pequea Sam, →ISBN:


come upon the town

To be sure, it would have been more for the advantage of conversation had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as the happiest alternative, been secluded from the world, in some distant farm house.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 144:

(UK, obsolete, euphemistic) To become a prostitute; to turn to prostitution.


dip one's pen in someone's inkwell

dip one's pen in someone's inkwell (third-person singular simple present dips one's pen in someone's inkwell, present participle dipping one's pen in someone's inkwell, simple past and past participle dipped one's pen in someone's inkwell)

dips one's pen in someone's inkwell (present singular third-person)
dipping one's pen in someone's inkwell (participle present)
dipped one's pen in someone's inkwell (participle past)
dipped one's pen in someone's inkwell (past)

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Pretty much everyone who dropped by Alaska dipped their pen in my ancestors' inkwell, from the Russians on down.

2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, page 190:

Watching me ogling the lovely waitresses' movements, this Greek philosopher -- who happened to be my mother's brother—-advised me, “Never dip your pen in the local inkwell while at work.”

2014, George M. Goritz, Shakespeare, Wall Street and My Arabian Nights Adventures, →ISBN, pages 101–102:

“Does this business associate know you've been dipping your pen in the company inkwell?”

2014, Oliver North, Bob Hamer, Counterfeit Lies, →ISBN, page 46:

(euphemistic, of a man) To have sex with (someone).


use it

use it (third-person singular simple present uses it, present participle using it, simple past and past participle used it)

uses it (present singular third-person)
using it (participle present)
used it (participle past)
used it (past)

Madison just used it on herself!

(euphemistic) To defecate or urinate, regardless of whether one is in a restroom.


G-word

[...] are not afraid to use the "G word." The divine is their "distinctive product," their "unique business proposition." Still, it is a risky business. The experience of the divine is anything but conformist, it bends to no formal business plan, and it can be ...

2007, Michael L. Klassen, Bad Religion: The Psychology of Religious Misbehavior, →ISBN, page 56:

G-word: The Constitution gives us the right to use the G-word and religious freedom. The Declaration of Independence has the G-word in it. Our Pledge of Allegiance has the G-word, and our money has the G-word.

2010, Harry Webster, Venting, Somebody Had to Say It, →ISBN, page 110:


fall asleep in the Lord

fall asleep in the Lord (third-person singular simple present falls asleep in the Lord, present participle falling asleep in the Lord, simple past fell asleep in the Lord, past participle fallen asleep in the Lord)

falls asleep in the Lord (present singular third-person)
falling asleep in the Lord (participle present)
fell asleep in the Lord (past)
fallen asleep in the Lord (participle past)

(chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, poetic, euphemistic) To die.


pee in someone's cornflakes

pee in someone's cornflakes (third-person singular simple present pees in someone's cornflakes, present participle peeing in someone's cornflakes, simple past and past participle peed in someone's cornflakes)

pees in someone's cornflakes (present singular third-person)
peeing in someone's cornflakes (participle present)
peed in someone's cornflakes (participle past)
peed in someone's cornflakes (past)

piss in someone's cornflakes
piss in someone's cornflakes#English

(idiomatic, euphemistic, often humorous) Alternative form of piss in someone's cornflakes.


intimate area

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butcher boy

He had clearly become a satyr once again, as evidenced by the rosy-faced butcher-boy that Moore met upon visiting him. The word butcher-boy was, like telegraph-boy, a euphemism for a male prostitute

1997, Ellis Hanson, “The Dialectic of Shame and Grace”, in Decadence and Catholicism, →OCLC, page 81:

(uncommon, slang, euphemistic) A male prostitute.


front hole

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"Do you put your penis into your partner's vagina, [or] rectum?" Or even, "Do you use the front hole or the back hole?" If you ask these questions without using body language or intimidating vocal mannerisms that betray discomfort and negative attitudes, you can get a lot of […]

1989, Larry Siegel, Milan Korcok, AIDS, the Drug and Alcohol Connection: What Health Care ..., page 58:

A.C. stated that she had not been touched by anyone in her "back hole," though she had been touched by Donald in her "front hole."

2000-2003, People of the State of Illinois v. Cookson, page 14

Front-Hole Penetration
Those of us who were assigned female at birth usually have a front hole, unless we have chosen to have it surgically removed via vaginectomy. Many of us have complicated feelings about using our front holes […]

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 384:

“I don't have a vagina,” he explained, “I have a bonus hole. Other names that don't make me cringe are boy hole and front hole”.

2015, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia: A National Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 112:

(euphemistic, uncommon) The vagina (now sometimes especially of a trans man).


resting place

resting places (plural)
resting-place (alternative uncommon)

From Middle English restyng place, restingplace, rystynge-place, restynge place, equivalent to resting + place.

The Western Region station [at Windsor] has seen many arrivals and departures of monarchs, some returning to their last resting place at Frogmore Mausoleum.

1949 September and October, “Notes and News: Queen Victoria's Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 340:

That [Robert] Stephenson's final resting place is in Westminster Abbey, along civil engineering great Thomas Telford, signifies his importance.

2020 June 17, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Robert Stephenson's steam-age bridges”, in Rail, page 46:

(euphemistic) A place where one is buried or laid to rest; a tomb.


memory care

memory care community

(euphemistic) The care of a patient suffering from a memory disorder.


piddle away

piddle away (third-person singular simple present piddles away, present participle piddling away, simple past and past participle piddled away)

piddles away (present singular third-person)
piddling away (participle present)
piddled away (participle past)
piddled away (past)

From piddle (“to act wastefully or ineffectually”), under influence from piss away.

He piddled away three hours at the bus station waiting for Gabe to show up.

Those who have piddled away that Sum, would, perhaps, be glad of an Opportunity to ease us of a much greater.

1743, A Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Extraordinary & Advantageous Bargain..., page 9:

(transitive) To piss away: to waste or squander time, money, etc.


frig off

frig off (third-person singular simple present frigs off, present participle frigging off, simple past and past participle frigged off)

frigs off (present singular third-person)
frigging off (participle present)
frigged off (participle past)
frigged off (past)

I said leave me alone, so why don't you just frig off!

I frigged off when a man, parked in a Fleetwood in front of us, slipped out and loped towards us

(slang, mildly vulgar, euphemistic) To go away; to fuck off.


s-bomb

From s (“abbreviation of shit”) + bomb (“(euphemism marker)”).

compound

abbreviation of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">shit</i>


Suzie Wong

Suzie Wongs (plural)
Suzi Wong (alternative)
Suzy Wong (alternative)

From The World of Suzie Wong, a 1960 film about a Hong Kong prostitute named Suzie Wong.

(dated, slang, euphemistic, mid-20th century) An East Asian or Southeast Asian female prostitute (particularly in Hong Kong and in Vietnam War–era Southeast Asia)


pine box

pine boxes (plural)
pinebox (alternative)

He'll appreciate me when I'm in a pine box pushing up daisies.

1998, Frawley Becker, 411 Joseph: A Play in Two Acts (page 79)


devil's doorbell

en-noun

devil's doorbell (plural devil's doorbells)

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A sinner like me who uses her fingers for “ringing the devil[’]s doorbell” has trouble actually determining whether these moms are in on the joke.

2015 November 11, Wannabee Blunt, “How often do you ring the devil's doorbell?”, in Blunt Moms:

I agreed to review this anthology entirely because “the devil’s doorbell” is the best euphemism for “clitoris” I’ve ever heard in my entire life.

2016 May 3, Caroline Russomanno, “The Devil's Doorbell”, in All About Romance:

“Because we talked about it on the playground,” Molly quipped, “right after we discussed what happens when you ring the devil's doorbell.”[…]
“Oh.” Lauren finally got it. “Is that what kids nowadays call it? I feel old because we just called it the clit—”

2017, Robert J. Crane, Unearthed, page 111:


downbelows

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The G-Spot, according to the fat-headed, boss-eyed berk who invented it, is an area in a female person's downbelows that, when stimulated, causes instant and magnificent orgasms.

1988, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 294, page 21:

So there I was, scarlet with embarrassment, Mel and William giggling, no trousers on and about a million shoppers staring at my down-belows, when a man with a camera approaches Mum and says he's from the local paper.

2015, Jamie Rix, The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury: Dead Dad Dog:

More specifically, how do you find that lass who first induced priapic glee in the ol' fuzzy downbelows behind the bike sheds?

2007, Joe Shooman, "Whose Space is it Anyway?":


sleep of the just

From the idea that people who act justly have no worries and so sleep well, while unjust people are concerned about the consequences of their actions and so sleep poorly.

Towards the close of the day (the 8th) the holy father [Pope Leo XII], who had never lost his recollection, fell into a profound lethargy, from which he did not recover till at nine in the morning of the 10th [of February, 1829], to fall into the sleep of the just.

1829 April 18, “Death of Pope Leo XII”, in H[ezekiah] Niles & son, editors, Niles’ Weekly Register, volume XII, number 8 (Third Series; volume XXXVI, issue 918 overall), Baltimore, Md.: H[ezekiah] Niles & Son […], →OCLC, page 121, column 2:

At length he [Jean-Pierre-François Guillot-Duhamel] slept the sleep of the just, on the 19th February 1816, aged somewhat less than 86 years old.

1830 October–December, [Georges] Cuvier, “Biographical Memoir of M. Duhamel”, in Robert Jameson, editor, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, volume XIX, Edinburgh: […] Adam Black, […]; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, →OCLC, page 14:

He [Albert Vernon Randall] was called to his final reward in January, 1883, after a long and useful life, and with his faithful wife, Sarah (Pettit) Randall, who was born May 9, 1809, in Loudoun County, Virginia, now sleeps the sleep of the just in the beautiful cemetery at Shebyville.

1909, Edward H. Chadwick, “Albert Vernon Randall”, in Chadwick’s History of Shelby County, Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.: B. F. Bowen & Company, →OCLC, page 484:

(euphemistic, dated) A peaceful death or burial.


Spanish athlete

Spanish athlete (plural Spanish athletes)

We were both Spanish athletes— the Spanish athlete, you know, is the man who throws the bull.

1911, National Lime Association, Transactions of the Annual Meeting, page 154:

Apparently there is little hope for this "Spanish Athlete," but the following suggestions are appropriate if he and a few others will only give ear and mind

1916, Rock Island Employes' Magazine, page 27:

Woman, lovely woman, invariably favors all athletes, with the possible exception of the type known as the Spanish athlete, more commonly referred to as the bull-thrower.

1923, Sheet Metal Workers' Journal, page 24:

Al, you will recall, was quite a Spanish athlete.

He is throwing the bull (or is a Spanish athlete)

2005, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, page 14:


frail sister

(obsolete, euphemistic) A female prostitute.


holy macaroni

(idiomatic, humorous or euphemistic) An expression of surprise.


Distinguished Competition

the Distinguished Competition (canonical)

(euphemistic) DC Comics (in the context of its rivalry with Marvel Comics)


sanitaries

Building clean, lack of cloak rooms, poor ventilation; sanitaries need attention.

1864, Educational Pamphlets 48: Hygiene, page 493:

The sanitaries of the Washington school have outlived their usefulness, the odor from them and their surroundings being very offensive, and in my opinion injurious to pupils and teachers.

1904, Municipal Register of the City of Waterbury, page 34:

I'm blowing sanitaries. You pull the lever on that crapper and a few hundred pounds of smelly stuff will fly up your nose in a heart beat.

2003, Crazy Ivan: Based on a True Story of Submarine Espionage, →ISBN, page 38:

She headed for the sanitaries rather than the exterior hatch, and Zhang could clearly hear her vomiting inside the tiny compartment.

2016, D. Nolan Clark, Forsaken Skies, →ISBN:

(euphemistic) Facilities for handling human waste; Structure containing toilets, seats over a cesspit, or tanks for holding excrement.


full service

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“What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”

2012, Maxim Jakubowski, The Best British Crime Omnibus:

(sex, euphemistic) In prostitution, full sexual activity including penetration.


Big Game

From big + game, due to it being the most prominent sports match.

(US, sports, euphemistic) Synonym of Super Bowl (the annual national American football championship for the U.S. based National Football League)