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"etymology_text": "A nonsense word in a rant by McBlane (actor Joseph Brady) in the third series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as \"ap yer clunge!\" (\"up your clunge\"). Probably invented by writer David Nobbs to mean \"arse\".\nPopularised by British television series The Inbetweeners (from 2008).",
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"text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:clunge."
}
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"Vulva or vagina."
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"Sex",
"Body",
"Anatomy",
"Life",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Biology",
"Medicine",
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{
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"etymology_text": "A nonsense word in a rant by McBlane (actor Joseph Brady) in the third series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as \"ap yer clunge!\" (\"up your clunge\"). Probably invented by writer David Nobbs to mean \"arse\".\nPopularised by British television series The Inbetweeners (from 2008).",
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"text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:clunge."
}
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"(UK, vulgar, slang, chiefly Internet) Vulva or vagina."
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"Internet",
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"(UK, vulgar, slang, chiefly Internet, originally but now rare) Arse."
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