pubic hair

English

Noun

pubic hair (countable and uncountable, plural pubic hairs)

1. (collectively) the hair that grows in the pubic region from puberty

   Synonyms: netherhair, bush, short and curlies, short hairs, pubes

   • 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 67

     Negroes (teeth, fingers, toe nails and pubic hair gilded), Japanese boys smooth and white as china, Titian-haired Venetian lads, Americans with blond or black curls falling across the forehead (the guests tenderly shove it back), sulky blond Polacks with animal brown eyes, Arab and Spanish street boys, Austrian boys pink and delicate with a faint shadow of blond pubic hair, sneering German youths with bright blue eyes scream "Heil Hitler!" as the trap falls under them. Sollubis shit and whimper.

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2. (in the singular) a single hair growing in the pubic region

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

Related terms

• pubarche

Translations

collectively

• Arabic: شَعْر اَلْعَانَة m pl (šaʕr al-ʕāna)

  Egyptian Arabic: شعرة f pl (šeʕra) (vulgar)

• Assamese: বাল (bal) (vulgar), গুপ্তকেশ (guptkex)
• Bengali: (vulgar) বাল (bn) (bal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰毛／阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo), 阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo)

  Min Nan: 膣屄毛 (chi-bai-moo) (feminine), 𡳞蔓 (zh-min-nan) (lān-mōa) (masculine), 陰毛／阴毛 (im-mn̂g)

• Danish: kønshår n, kønsbehåring (da) c
• Dupaningan Agta: sabut
• Dutch: schaamhaar (nl) n
• Estonian: häbemekarvad
• Finnish: häpykarvoitus (fi)
• French: poils pubiens (fr) m pl
• Galician: pentello m
• Georgian: ფაჩარი (pačari)
• German: Schamhaar (de) n
• Hebrew: שְׂעַר הָעֶרְוָוה f
• Icelandic: skapahár n pl, kynhár n pl
• Indonesian: jembut (id) (bad language), bulu kemaluan (id), rambut kemaluan
• Irish: bruis f, caithir f, stothóg f
• Italian: pelo pubico m
• Japanese: 陰毛 (いんもう, inmō)
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• Korean: 음모 (ko) (eummo) (陰毛 (ko)), 거웃 (ko) (geout)
• Lithuanian: gaktos plaukai m pl
• Maori: puke huruhuru (of a woman)
• Marathi: पौगंड-कुंतल (paugaṇḍa-kuntal), सुघट-कुंतल (sughaṭ-kuntal), योनिपुष्ठ-कुंतल (yonipuṣṭha-kuntal), पौगंड-केस (paugaṇḍa-kes), सुघट-केस (sughaṭ-kes), योनिपुष्ठ-केस (yonipuṣṭha-kes), पौगंड-बाल (paugaṇḍa-bāl), सुघट-केश (sughaṭ-keś), योनिपुष्ठ-केश (yonipuṣṭha-keś), सुघट-बाल (sughaṭ-bāl), योनिपुष्ठ-बाल (yonipuṣṭha-bāl), झाटा (jhāṭā) (slang)
• Northern Sami: siehppa
• Norwegian: bellehår

  Bokmål: kjønnshår n

  Nynorsk: kjønnshår n

• Persian: موی زهار
• Polish: owłosienie łonowe pl
• Portuguese: pelos púbicos m pl, pelos pubianos m pl, pentelhos m pl
• Romanian: floci m pl (slang)
• Russian: лобко́вые во́лосы m pl (lobkóvyje vólosy), (slang, also "excessive body hair") волосня́ (ru) f (volosnjá)
• Spanish: vello púbico m, vello pubiano m
• Swahili: vinyuzi (sw)
• Swedish: könshår (sv) n, pubeshår (sv) n, pubishår n
• Tagalog: bulbol, bulbul
• Thai: หมอย (th) (mɔ̌ɔi)
• Turkish: kasık kılı
• Vietnamese: lông mu
• Yámana: alačun

singular

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰毛／阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo), 阴毛 (zh) (yīnmáo)

• Dutch: schaamhaar (nl) n
• Finnish: häpykarva (fi)
• French: poil pubien (fr) m
• Galician: pentello m
• German: Schamhaar (de) n
• Icelandic: skapahár n
• Irish: ribe caithre m
• Japanese: 陰毛 (いんもう, inmō)
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• Lithuanian: gaktos plaukas m
• Portuguese: pelo púbico m, pelo pubiano m, pentelho (pt) m
• Romanian: floc (ro) m (slang)
• Russian: лобко́вый во́лос m (lobkóvyj vólos)
• Spanish: pendejo (es) m
• Swedish: könshår (sv) n
• Thai: หมอย (th) (mɔ̌ɔi)

See also

• axillary hair