soixante-neuf

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French soixante-neuf.

Pronunciation

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Noun

soixante-neuf (uncountable)

1. Sixty-nine (a sex position).
   • 2017, Fiona Lewis, Mistakes Were Made (Some in French), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 165:

     When he wanted to bury his face in my crotch, or do soixante-neuf, I laughed. He was offended.

Verb

soixante-neuf (third-person singular simple present soixante-neufs, present participle soixante-neufing, simple past and past participle soixante-neufed)

1. (rare, slang, transitive, intransitive) To sixty-nine (a sex position).

French

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←  68	69	70  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: soixante-neuf     Ordinal: soixante-neuvième     Ordinal abbreviation: 69e, (now nonstandard) 69ème
French Wikipedia article on 69

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa.sɑ̃t.nœf/

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Etymology 1

Compound of soixante and neuf.

Numeral

soixante-neuf (invariable)

1. sixty-nine

Etymology 2

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.

Alternative forms

• 69

Noun

soixante-neuf m (invariable)

1. sixty-nine (sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time)