sixty-nine
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English
| ← 68 | 69 | 70 → |
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| Cardinal: sixty-nine Ordinal: sixty-ninth Adverbial: sixty-nine times | ||
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ, IPA(key): /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/
Audio (AU) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: six‧ty-nine
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology 1
Number
sixty-nine
- The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
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Translations
cardinal number
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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.
Noun
sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)
- (sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time.
- Synonym: soixante-neuf
- Coordinate terms: cunnilingus, fellatio, clusterfuck
Translations
sex position
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Verb
sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)
- (slang) To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
- 1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:
- You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said
Further reading
sixty-nine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - 69 (sex position) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “sixty-nine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.