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Sixty-nine
//ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn// noun, num, verb, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 being nine more than sixty wordnet
Noun
- 1 A sex position where two people perform oral sex on each other simultaneously. countable, uncountable
- 2 oral sex practiced simultaneously by two people wordnet
Numeral
- 1 The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
Verb
- 1 To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex. intransitive, slang, transitive
"One of my old lovers liked to sixty-nine because the distraction of what she was doing kept her mind off what she was feeling so that her anxieties about what right she had to feel so good could not as easily keep her from feeling it."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Calque of French soixante-neuf, 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.
Etymology 2
Calque of French soixante-neuf, 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.
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