poontang

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English

Alternative forms

pootang

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpuːntæŋ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)

Noun

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.
(US, slang, vulgar, dated, derogatory, offensive) A woman, especially when discussed from a heavily sexualized, sexist, and misogynist perspective.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:poontang.

Synonyms

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

References

^ Eric Partridge (2005) “poontang”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1522: “[…] it almost certainly comes from the French putain (prostitute).”
^ “poontang n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

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