firkytoodle
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]firkytoodle (third-person singular simple present firkytoodles, present participle firkytoodling, simple past and past participle firkytoodled)
- (obsolete) To cuddle or fondle amorously.
- 1983, Joanna Dessau, Lord of the Ladies, page 73:
- So we frolicked all day and firkytoodled all night.
- 1993, Benoîte Groult, Salt on Our Skin, page 6:
- All the same, there's no way I can tell my story without describing the sin of firkytoodling, as sexual play was known in the sixteenth century.
- 2013, Lesley M. M. Blume, Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition:
- Amorous couples have “firkytoodled” for years, and “ribs” (wives) have given “curtain lectures” (chastisements issued to world—weary husbands at bedtime) for millennia.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary