cunning linguist

From use in bawdy puns with the near-homophone cunnilingus.

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cunning linguist (plural cunning linguists)

1. (vulgar, colloquial, humorous, euphemistic) One who performs cunnilingus.
   • 1968, Norton Mockridge, The scrawl of the wild: what people write on walls and why, page 11:

     Then he wrote: "God is Dead" and "I Am a Cunning Linguist." McLean walked over and asked the man why he was writing these things. "Can't ya read, mister?" snarled the little man.

   • 1970, John Boyd, The Organ Bank Farm, page 190:

     My love's a cunning linguist.
     His tongue's my greatest treasure.
     With "tu bella" and "liebe dich"
     He bends me to his pleasure.

   • 2003, April Masini, Date Out of Your League, page 156:

     Become a Cunning Linguist – She Loves Oral Sex!

   • 2005, Vibe, volume 13, number 9, page 107:

     An obvious choice to endorse ChapStick, Mr. Smith knows that ladies love a cunning linguist and a moist mouth.

   • 2009, Pat Boran, Flowing, Still: Irish poets on Irish poetry, page 69:

     Frank Sewell, the most gifted poet of a new generation of Northern Ireland poets stated that the translator goes down on history; a cunning linguist.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cunning,‎ linguist.
   • 1894, Benito Pérez Galdós, translated by Mary Wharton, Lady Perfecta‎, page 206:

     An enormous oak shelf holds a rich and choice library; […] Martial, the cunning linguist and wit; […]

   • 2014, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Word Crimes”, in Mandatory Fun:

     You should hire/Some cunning linguist/To help you distinguish/What's proper English

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