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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French soixante-neuf.
Pronunciation
Noun
soixante-neuf (uncountable)
- sixty-nine (sex position)
2017, Fiona Lewis, Mistakes Were Made (Some in French), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 165:When he wanted to bury his face in my crotch, or do soixante-neuf, I laughed. He was offended.
Verb
soixante-neuf (third-person singular simple present soixante-neufs, present participle soixante-neufing, simple past and past participle soixante-neufed)
- (rare) sixty-nine (sex position)
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Compound of soixante and neuf.
Numeral
soixante-neuf (invariable)
- sixty-nine
Etymology 2
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
soixante-neuf m (plural soixante-neuf)
- sixty-nine (sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time)