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Fellate

//fəˈleɪt// verb

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Verb

1
To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth. intransitive, transitive
"[…] semen is a gift, and the relation between the one who is fellated and the one who fellates is a relation between one who gives and one who receives."
2
provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation wordnet
3
To suck in a manner suggestive of fellatio. broadly, transitive
"Can she only come when a White woman kneels before her fellating her dildo? Or does the Black woman just see another dyke she fancies, who fancies her? I'm attracted to White women because my White lover is Other to me […]"
4
To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to. figuratively, transitive
"If you thought the German government was going to be a lapdog for Sarcozy, or worse, was going to fellate Brussels and the ECB, you got a rude shock today."

Etymology

Back-formation from fellatio on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin fellō (“suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, to suckle”).

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