down there

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daʊn ðɛə(ɹ)/, /daʊn ðɛː(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /daʊn ðɛəɹ/
• (Maine accent) IPA^(key): /daʊn ˈðeɪə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /daʊn ðeː(ɹ)/

Adverb

down there (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic) In the (usually female) genital area.
   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Florence, Italy: […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html)‎^[1], Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:

     And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch^[sic] with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy.

   • 2005, Annie Fox, Elizabeth Verdick, The Teen Survival Guide to Dating & Relating, page 44:

     Then she put her hand on my pants, you know, down there.

   • 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Baby's First Year, page 15:

     It may seem a bit strange to squirt yourself with warm water from a squirt bottle every time you use the restroom for a few weeks, but I'm pretty sure we can all agree that getting an infection down there doesn't sound fun.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down,‎ there.

Translations

In the (usually female) genital area

• Esperanto: tie malsupre

Anagrams

• wondereth