morning bean

English

Etymology

Coined by Reddit user u/skeyer in 2018 (see quotation below).

Noun

morning bean (uncountable)

1. (neologism) A spontaneous swelling of the clitoris during sleep or upon waking up.
   • [2018 June 10, u/skeyer, “TIL: The female version of morning wood (or morning glory in Australian,) is "nocturnal clitoral tumescence."”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/todayilearned, archived from the original on 29 December 2023:

     I've always called it morning bean]

   • 2018 June 28, Sophie Aubrey, “What you didn't know about what happens to your vagina when you sleep.”, in Mamamia‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-11-01:

     It can be confusing for women, and the more we understand our bodies, the more reassuring it is that what we're experiencing on a day-to-day basis is completely healthy and normal. It's just your morning bean saying hello.

   • 2023 May 12, Sarah-Louise Kelly, “Yes Really – Women Get Morning Wood Too”, in HuffPost‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-12-21:

     Apparently women can get 'morning bean'.

   • 2023 May 23, Jade Biggs, quoting Karan Raj, “What is 'morning bean'? TikTok doctor explains why you might wake up with it...”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[4], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

     As opposed to the penis, most of the clitoris is internal – it's about four inches long on average – so most of the morning bean is not visible.

   • 2023 November 7, u/yammymaam, “Female members, do you still experience nocturnal clitoral tumescence?”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/PSSD, archived from the original on 29 December 2023:

     I was never aware of having morning bean before so if it's happening now, I am not aware

See also

• morning glory
• morning wood

 

Further reading

• nocturnal clitoral tumescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia