queen

Tok Pisin: kwin

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⇒ American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown

→ Burmese: ကွင်း (kwang:)

→ German: Queen

→ Japanese: クイーン (kuīn), クィーン (kwīn)

→ Korean: 퀸 (kwin)

→ Marshallese: kwiin

→ Sikaiana: kuini

→ Spanish: cuina

→ Thai: ควีน (kwiin)

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”).
Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Norwegian kvinne (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to and possibly merged with and/or absorbed some senses of English quean, from Middle English quene, from Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of quean and gyne.

gloss

"wife"; > Middle Low German <i class="Latn mention" lang="gml">quene</i> (“elderly woman”)

cog

[…] and yet I will not ſay but amongſt duſt there is Pearle found, and in hard rockes Dyamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Queene of all woman kinde the Virgin Mary the mother of al bliſſe, what wun her honour, but an humble minde and her paines and loue vnto our Sauiour Chriſt.

1620, Thomas Tell-Troth [pseudonym of Joseph Swetnam], The Araignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: Or the Vanitie of Them, Choose You Whether, London, published 1807, retrieved 2022-01-14:

A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen.

(Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).


en-verb

69 (third-person singular simple present 69s, present participle 69ing, simple past and past participle 69ed)

They spent all day in their room, injecting and 69ing, injecting and 69ing.

1990, Ivan Stang, Three-fisted tales of "Bob": short stories in the subgenius mythos, number 1:

if the Bananas in Pajamas would have somehow teleported themselves to our arena, walked out to midcourt, started 69ing, and then finished each other off with a couple rusty trombones before sprouting wings and flying away[…]

2013, Mark Titus, Don't Put Me in Coach:


tribadism

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:

In Bali[…] homosexuality is almost as common among women as among men, though it is more secretly exercised; the methods of gratification adopted are either digital or lingual, or else by bringing the parts together (tribadism).

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 3rd edition, volume 2:

(specifically) A sexual act in which two women rub their vulvas together.


sixty-nine

The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.


sixty-nine

en-noun

sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)

Calque of French soixante-neuf, from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.

(sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time.


sixty-nine

en-verb

sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)

sixty-nines (present singular third-person)
sixty-nining (participle present)
sixty-nined (participle past)
sixty-nined (past)

One of my old lovers liked to sixty-nine because the distraction of what she was doing kept her mind off what she was feeling so that her anxieties about what right she had to feel so good could not as easily keep her from feeling it.

1976, Marilyn Gayle, What Lesbians Do, Amazon Reality Collective:

You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said

1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:

(slang) To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.


cowgirl

A sex position where the receptive partner is on top; the cowgirl position.

The receptive partner in the cowgirl position.


cowgirl

cowgirl (third-person singular simple present cowgirls, present participle cowgirling, simple past and past participle cowgirled)

cowgirls (present singular third-person)
cowgirling (participle present)
cowgirled (participle past)
cowgirled (past)

Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]

2016, Angela Goodnight, My Life, My Loves: True, Explicit Autobiography:

(rare, transitive) To mount someone and have sexual intercourse in the cowgirl position.


amazon

From Amazon, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).

a position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis


doggy style

From the resemblance to the manner in which dogs mate.

(slang) The position assumed for doggy style intercourse.

по́за ра́ка (póza ráka, literally “crayfish position”)


coitus

en-noun

coitus (countable and uncountable, plural coituses)

Wolowitz: Hang on. There really is a lady here?
Leonard: Uh-huh.
Wolowitz: And you want us out because you’re anticipating coitus?
Leonard: No, she’s just a friend.
Wolowitz: So she’s available for coitus?
Leonard: No, she’s – –

2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 26)

(formal or humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile-vaginal penetration.

جِمَاع

sexual interaction — see also sexual intercourse


missionary position

missionary position (plural missionary positions)

Supposed to have been originated by natives of the Trobriand Islands (who considered it improper), popularized by Alfred Kinsey.

A position for sexual intercourse in which the man and woman face each other, with the man on top.


T-square

From its shape, resembling a capital letter T.

A sex position whereby the receiving partner lies on the back with knees up and legs apart while the penetrating partner lies on either side perpendicular to the receiver, with the penetrating partner's hips under the arch formed by receiver's legs.


lotus position

A cross-legged sitting position in which the feet are resting on the thigh of the opposite leg; a meditative position in Hinduism and Buddhism, also used in yoga and sexual intercourse.


scissoring

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Divya […] The evenings aren’t our most sexy time together, as a couple.
Frankie Yeah, the scissoring tends to happen in the afternoon. We often combine it with a nap. We love napping.

2023 April 1, Kitty Drake, “Our sleeping secrets caught on camera: nine beds and the people in them reveal everything – from farting to threesomes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(sex) A sex act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.


frot

From Middle English frotten, froten, from Old French froter (“to rub, polish”), of obscure origin.

unk

obscure

A sexual act in which two people rub their penises together.


sex position

Any of the physical positions adopted for sexual intercourse.


cowgirl position

en-noun

cowgirl position (plural cowgirl positions)

(idiomatic) A sex position in which the man lies on his back, and the woman sits on top of him facing him.


reverse cowgirl position

reverse cowgirl position (plural reverse cowgirl positions)

A sex position in which the man lies on his back, and the woman sits on top of him facing towards his feet.


rusty trombone

In reference to the hand-mouth coordination and motions required while playing the trombone, and the rust-color of fecal matter.

The “RustyTrombone" you know that I think that is the oldest of all these sickening things uh, 'cause I heard that one years and years and years ago.

2003, United States. Federal Communications Commission, FCC record, volume 18, number 10:

What I did to your mom last night. I think is called a rusty trombone or maybe it's a cherry cheese danish.

2008, Don Haynes, Lee Gerst, D.N.R.-The Best Show That Will Never Be on Television, page 106:

Would you rather live in a world where[…] regardless of where you went to sleep, every morning you always wake up naked and spooning a complete stranger OR once a month a siren randomly goes off and you are required to give a “rusty trombone” to the person standing nearest to you?

2010, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg, The Big Book: Over 1,500 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder, page 134:

(slang, vulgar) The act of simultaneously performing anilingus and masturbating the penis.


facesitting

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The sexual practice of sitting on a partner’s face to receive cunnilingus or anilingus.


DATY

(in prostitutes' advertisements) Initialism of dining at the Y.


backshot

In fact, one incensed male interviewee told me that Tanya needed a "good backshot inna har belly fi keep har quiet" (a good backshot up inside her abdomen to keep her quiet/calm).

2001, Donna P. Hope, Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica, page 51:

And by the way, it also incites some backshot (a Caribbean term for a well-known sex position) and spanking tendencies during sexual activity for some.

2013, Kelda, Men Under a Microscope, →ISBN, page 57:

Yeah bitch! I got a backshot and that shit felt good as hell!

2015, Takerra Allen, Thicker Than Water - Volume 1, →ISBN:

(Caribbean, Jamaica, MLE, MTE, slang) A sexual position in which one partner penetrates the other from behind; doggy style.


St. George

census-designated place
census-designated place

A former census-designated place and neighborhood of Lauderhill, Broward County, Florida, United States.

An unincorporated community in Charlton County, Georgia, United States, also spelled as Saint George.

Chittenden County
Chittenden County#English

A town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States.


Viennese oyster

A sex position in which the female lies on her back and moves her legs behind her head.


spoons position

A sex position in which the partners lie side by side facing in the same direction.


ekiben

Borrowed from Japanese 駅弁(えきべん) (ekiben).

(sex) A sex position which consists of one participant carrying the other while penetrating them.


mating press

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(slang) A sex position similar to the missionary position with the recepient's legs tucked up.


riding St. George

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prone-bone

en-verb

prone-bone (third-person singular simple present prone-bones, present participle prone-boning, simple past and past participle prone-boned)

prone-bones (present singular third-person)
prone-boning (participle present)
prone-boned (participle past)
prone-boned (past)

(slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate (someone) while they lie prone.


suspended congress

Calque of Sanskrit अवलम्बितक रत (avalambitaka rata), from the Kama Sutra.

clq

अवलम्बितक रत

(sex, idiomatic) A sex position which consists of one participant carrying the other while penetrating them.