sixty-nine
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
← 68 | 69 | 70 → |
---|---|---|
Cardinal: sixty-nine Ordinal: sixty-ninth Adverbial: sixty-nine times |
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) enPR: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ, IPA(key): /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/
Audio (AU) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: six‧ty-nine
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology 1[edit]
Number[edit]
sixty-nine
- The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
cardinal number
|
Etymology 2[edit]
Calque of French soixante-neuf,[1] from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.
Noun[edit]
sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)
- (sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time.
- Synonym: soixante-neuf
- Coordinate terms: cunnilingus, fellatio, clusterfuck
Translations[edit]
sex position
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
|
Verb[edit]
sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)
- (slang) To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
- 1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:
- You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said
Further reading[edit]
sixty-nine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
69 (sex position) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “sixty-nine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/aɪn
- Rhymes:English/aɪn/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English numerals
- English multiword terms
- English terms calqued from French
- English terms derived from French
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Sexuality
- English verbs
- English slang
- English terms with quotations
- English cardinal numbers
- en:Sex positions