cunnilingus

• cunnilinctus

From Latin cunnilingus (literally “cuntlicker”). The meaning shift, not yet complete in the early twentieth century, perhaps derives from figurative uses where the name for a person stands for the name of a practice.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkʌ.nɪˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/, /ˌkʌ.niˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/

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cunnilingus (usually uncountable, plural cunnilinguses)

1. (obsolete) Someone who performs oral sex on a woman’s clitoris and/or vulva.
   • 1887, John Noland Mackenzie, “Carcinoma of Larynx”, in Albert H. Buck, editor, A Reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science, volume 4, New York: William Wood & Company, page 402a:

     The stinking breath, hoarse voice, and snoring respiration of the cunnilingus, fellator and fellatrix, the effeminate, piping tone of the cinædus and irrumator, which excited the special scorn of the early satirical writers, were doubtless the expression of a catarrhal pharyngolaryngitis acquired in the discharge of their filthy practices.

   • 1887, John Noland Mackenzie, “Syphilis of the Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi”, in Albert H. Buck, editor, A Reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science, volume 4, New York: William Wood & Company, page 439b:

     The foul mouth, hoarse voice, and snoring respiration of the cunnilingus, fellator and irrumator have been thought to indicate syphilitic affections of the throat, but, as I have suggested elsewhere, they were doubtless the symptoms of a catarrhal process acquired in the discharge of their filthy occupations.

   Synonyms: cunnilinctor, cunnilinguist, muff-diver, carpet muncher, cuntlicker, cuntsucker, bowcat

2. Oral sex in which a woman's clitoris and/or vulva is orally stimulated.

   Synonyms: carpet munching, cuntlicking, lip service, muff diving, pussy eating, dining at the Y; see also Thesaurus:oral sex

   Coordinate term: fellatio

• autocunnilingus

• cunnilingue
• cunnilinguist
• cunnilinguistic
• cunnilingual

• sixty-nine
• cunt
• cunny

• kunnilingus

From Latin cunnilingus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkunːiliŋːus/, [ˈkunːiˌliŋːus̠]

cunnilingus

1. cunnilingus

• cunni (clipping)

From Latin cunnus and lingō (“to lick”).

• IPA^(key): /ky.ni.lɛ̃.ɡys/

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cunnilingus m (plural cunnilingus)

1. (sexuality) cunnilingus

   Le cunnilingus est une pratique sexuelle orale qui consiste à stimuler les différentes parties des organes génitaux féminins à l'aide de la langue, des lèvres ou du nez.

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• anulingus
• fellation

• “cunnilingus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cunnilingus.

cunnilingus m (invariable)

1. cunnilingus

   Synonym: cunnilingio

Compound of cunnus (“cunt”) +‎ lingō (“lick”). Attested in the vocative form in the classical Latin poem Carmina Priapea LXXVIII, believed to have been compiled around 100 AD.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kun.niˈlin.ɡus/, [kʊnːɪˈlʲɪŋɡʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kun.niˈlin.ɡus/, [kunːiˈliŋɡus]

cunnilingus m (genitive cunnilingī); second declension

1. (vulgar) cuntlicker, cunnilinguist

Second-declension noun.

• “cunnilingus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

cunnilingus m (uncountable)

1. cunnilingus

   Synonym: cunnilinguo

• “cunnilingus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014