soixante-neuf
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French soixante-neuf.
Noun[edit]
soixante-neuf (uncountable)
- sixty-nine (sex position)
- 2017, Fiona Lewis, Mistakes Were Made (Some in French), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 165:
- When he wanted to bury his face in my crotch, or do soixante-neuf, I laughed. He was offended.
Verb[edit]
soixante-neuf (third-person singular simple present soixante-neufs, present participle soixante-neufing, simple past and past participle soixante-neufed)
- (rare) sixty-nine (sex position)
French[edit]
← 68 | 69 | 70 → [a], [b] |
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Cardinal: soixante-neuf Ordinal: soixante-neuvième Ordinal abbreviation: 69e, (now nonstandard) 69ème | ||
French Wikipedia article on 69 |
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Compound of soixante and neuf.
Numeral[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
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.
Noun[edit]
soixante-neuf m (plural soixante-neuf)
- sixty-nine (sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time)
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