"fellate" meaning in English

See fellate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /fəˈleɪt/, /ˈfɛ.leɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fellate.wav Forms: fellates [present, singular, third-person], fellating [participle, present], fellated [participle, past], fellated [past]
Rhymes: -eɪt, -ɛleɪt Etymology: Back-formation from fellatio, from Latin fellō (“suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, to suckle”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁(y)-}}, {{back-formation|en|fellatio}} Back-formation from fellatio, {{der|en|la|fellō||suck}} Latin fellō (“suck”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁(y)-||to suck, to suckle}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, to suckle”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} fellate (third-person singular simple present fellates, present participle fellating, simple past and past participle fellated)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth. Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Sex Translations (to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth): 口交 (kǒujiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), 吹簫 (Chinese Mandarin), 吹箫 (chuīxiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), fellatio doen (Dutch), pijpen (Dutch), midzi (Esperanto), ottaa suihin (Finnish), tehdä fellaatio (Finnish), fellationieren (German), fellieren (German), blasen (German), lutschen (German), πεολείχω (peoleícho) (Greek), フェラチオをやる (ferachio o yaru) (Japanese), フェラをやる (fera o yaru) (Japanese), fēllō (Latin), کیر مکیدن (kir mekidan) (Persian), ssać [imperfective] (Polish), robić loda (Polish), obciągać (Polish), ciągnąć druta [vulgar] (Polish), ssać pałę [imperfective, vulgar] (Polish), robić dobrze [colloquial] (Polish), opierdalać [vulgar] (Polish), ojebać [perfective, vulgar] (Polish), robić laskę [imperfective, vulgar] (Polish), obrabiać [imperfective, vulgar] (Polish), dmuchać w puzon [imperfective] (Polish), chapać dzidę [vulgar] (Polish), robić gałę [vulgar] (Polish), chupar (Portuguese), соса́ть (sosátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отса́сывать (otsásyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отсоса́ть (otsosátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), де́лать мине́т (délatʹ minét) [imperfective] (Russian), сде́лать мине́т (sdélatʹ minét) [perfective] (Russian), соса́ть хуй (sosátʹ xuj) [imperfective] (Russian), отсоса́ть хуй (otsosátʹ xuj) [perfective, vulgar] (Russian), радити фелацио [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), пушити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), raditi felacio [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pušiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), felar (Spanish), felacionar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fellate-en-verb-6MPsvKsM Disambiguation of Sex: 36 21 43 Disambiguation of 'to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth': 98 1 1
  2. (transitive, by extension) To suck in a manner suggestive of fellatio. Tags: broadly, transitive Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-fellate-en-verb-l63Hc1bL Disambiguation of Sex: 36 21 43 Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English back-formations: 8 67 25 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 71 26 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 66 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 7 76 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 82 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 13 56 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 9 61 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 57 34 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 10 60 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 12 51 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 9 57 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 10 61 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 10 61 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 9 59 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 9 56 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 11 53 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 46 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 10 61 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 9 57 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 10 64 26
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to. Tags: figuratively, transitive Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-fellate-en-verb-pLLqm-j5 Disambiguation of Sex: 36 21 43 Categories (other): Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 46 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: autofellate, fellatio, fellator, fellatrix

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "autofellate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fellatio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fellator"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "fellatrix"
    }
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*dʰeh₁(y)-"
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      "expansion": "",
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        "2": "fellatio"
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      "expansion": "Back-formation from fellatio",
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        "3": "fellō",
        "4": "",
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      "name": "der"
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        "3": "*dʰeh₁(y)-",
        "4": "",
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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from fellatio, from Latin fellō (“suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, to suckle”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fellates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "fellating",
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        "present"
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      "form": "fellated",
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        "past"
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  "hyphenation": [
    "fel‧late"
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          "ref": "1997, Henning Bech, When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity, page 11:",
          "text": "[…] semen is a gift, and the relation between the one who is fellated and the one who fellates is a relation between one who gives and one who receives.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Paragraph 14, Public Prosecutor v Jeffrey Pe ([2023] SGHC 313)",
          "text": "At trial, the precise content of the sexual activity which subsequently occurred, as well as the Complainant’s state of consciousness at the material time, were matters of dispute between the Prosecution and the Defence. What was not disputed was that sometime between 4.02am and 5.43am, the Accused fellated the Complainant."
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      "glosses": [
        "To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth."
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      "links": [
        [
          "penis",
          "penis"
        ],
        [
          "scrotum",
          "scrotum"
        ],
        [
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          "mouth"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "kǒujiāo",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "口交"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "吹簫"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
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          "roman": "chuīxiāo",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "吹箫"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "fellatio doen"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "midzi"
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        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "ottaa suihin"
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        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "tehdä fellaatio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "fellationieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "fellieren"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "blasen"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "lutschen"
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          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "peoleícho",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "πεολείχω"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ferachio o yaru",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "フェラチオをやる"
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          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "fera o yaru",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "フェラをやる"
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          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "fēllō"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "kir mekidan",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "کیر مکیدن"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ssać"
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        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "robić loda"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "obciągać"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ciągnąć druta"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
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            "vulgar"
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          "word": "ssać pałę"
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        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "robić dobrze"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "opierdalać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "perfective",
            "vulgar"
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          "word": "ojebać"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
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            "vulgar"
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          "word": "robić laskę"
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
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            "vulgar"
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          "word": "obrabiać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "dmuchać w puzon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
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          "word": "chapać dzidę"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "robić gałę"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "chupar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sosátʹ",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "соса́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otsásyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "отса́сывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otsosátʹ",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "отсоса́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "délatʹ minét",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "де́лать мине́т"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sdélatʹ minét",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "сде́лать мине́т"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sosátʹ xuj",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "соса́ть хуй"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otsosátʹ xuj",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "perfective",
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "отсоса́ть хуй"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "радити фелацио"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "пушити"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "raditi felacio"
        },
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          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "pušiti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "felar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
          "word": "felacionar"
        }
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          "text": "Can she only come when a White woman kneels before her fellating her dildo? Or does the Black woman just see another dyke she fancies, who fancies her? I'm attracted to White women because my White lover is Other to me […]",
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          "ref": "1997, Henning Bech, When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity, page 11:",
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          "ref": "Paragraph 14, Public Prosecutor v Jeffrey Pe ([2023] SGHC 313)",
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth."
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        "(transitive, by extension) To suck in a manner suggestive of fellatio."
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        "(transitive, figuratively) To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to."
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kǒujiāo",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "口交"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "吹簫"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chuīxiāo",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "吹箫"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "fellatio doen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "pijpen"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "midzi"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "ottaa suihin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "tehdä fellaatio"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "fellationieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "fellieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "blasen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "lutschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "peoleícho",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "πεολείχω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ferachio o yaru",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "フェラチオをやる"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fera o yaru",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "フェラをやる"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "fēllō"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kir mekidan",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "کیر مکیدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ssać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "robić loda"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "obciągać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "ciągnąć druta"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "ssać pałę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "robić dobrze"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "opierdalać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "perfective",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "ojebać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "robić laskę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "obrabiać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dmuchać w puzon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "chapać dzidę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "robić gałę"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "chupar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sosátʹ",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "соса́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otsásyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "отса́сывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otsosátʹ",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "отсоса́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "délatʹ minét",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "де́лать мине́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sdélatʹ minét",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сде́лать мине́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sosátʹ xuj",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "соса́ть хуй"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otsosátʹ xuj",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "perfective",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "отсоса́ть хуй"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "радити фелацио"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
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      "word": "пушити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "raditi felacio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pušiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "felar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth",
      "word": "felacionar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fellate"
}

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