sixty-nine
English
← 68 | 69 | 70 → |
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Cardinal: sixty-nine Ordinal: sixty-ninth Adverbial: sixty-nine times |
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Hyphenation: six‧ty-nine
Etymology 1
Noun
- The cardinal number following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
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cardinal number
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Etymology 2
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
sixty-nine (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
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sex position
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Verb
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- (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
sixty-nine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
69 (sex position) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sixty-nine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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