poontang

English[edit]

Origin uncertain. Likely from French putain (“prostitute”).^[1]^[2] Compare Jamaican Creole punani (“female genitalia”); also Tagalog putang ina (“contemptible person”, literally “prostitute-mother”) from Spanish puta (“prostitute”).

poontang (countable and uncountable, plural poontangs)

(US, colloquial, vulgar) Female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
(US, slang, vulgar, uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 193:
  That must have been some poontang you got last night.

(vulgar: female genitalia): poon, tang, punani, cooch, coochie, clam; See Thesaurus:vagina
(vulgar: sex with a woman): poon, tang, pussy, punani, ass, tail

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^{The template Template:R:Partridge New does not use the parameter(s): vol=2
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Eric Partridge (2005) “poontang”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1522.: “[…] it almost certainly comes from the French putain (prostitute).”
^ Jonathon Green (2024) “poontang n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang